Rose Ayling-Ellis

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.5 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

What family game is Rose Ayling-Ellis banned from playing in her own home? Find out in the first ever podcast appearance by the actor and Strictly Come Dancing champion! Rose takes Russell through the majesty of playing Catan, eating Posh Crisps and how the pandemic had a weird side-benefit for the deaf community. It’s a great fun hour and well worth your time. In this episode there’s a lot of chat about British Sign Language… if it’s piqued your curiosity and you want to find out more then get your ass (and hands) down to https://www.british-sign.co.uk 🚨Watch out for Rose playing the lead in the new ITV drama ‘Code of Silence’. 🚨 📚 Also, Rose’s book that she talked about in the show ‘Marvellous Messages’ is out now and you can get it here. It’s about all the different ways that communication happens and it’s a cracking book for kids who are 7-9. 📚 🇺🇸 And if you happen to be in the United States right now, then why don’t you treat yourself and get along to one of Russell’s shows! He’s doing a brief tour of some cities in America that he hasn’t played for a while - check out where he be and get those tickets by going to russell-howard.co.uk 🇺🇸 If you’re enjoying this podcastness and you want it even podcastier, as in no adverts, an exclusive extra show every week that you help to make, and getting it all a day early… all for less than the cost of one sandwich a month… then click here to find out more. And we’re done. Time to put the microphone, keyboard, feather boa and udder lube back in the cupboard for another week. Time to get dressed again and leave the key under the doormat for the cleaners to do their thankless task. Hope your week is filled with rainbows and flowers, unless you’ve got hay fever in which case maybe just go with some plastic flowers. Goodbye to you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, hello there. Good to have you here. Well, that's a creepy, boys.
0:12.0	My guest today is best known for playing Frankie Lewis in EastEnders and winning strictly. It's Rose Ailing Ellis and these are a five brilliant things.
0:28.9	So here we are. Hello. So you, your mum had to explain what the podcast watched.
0:35.9	Yeah, but really, I don't really listen listen to podcasts because I can't hear them.
0:39.9	Yeah, it makes complete sense, yeah.
0:41.3	And I feel like a moron for saying, hey, have you heard the show?
0:46.2	Oh, no.
0:47.7	I haven't heard the show.
0:49.7	So what did your mum say?
0:51.2	Well, because I told my mom, I'm doing a podcast with you.
0:54.5	And then it's that vibrant thing.
0:57.3	So I was just like, oh, okay, maybe.
0:59.1	I love, like, really, really basic stuff.
1:02.9	And she was like, no, I'm not sure.
1:05.2	That's quite right.
1:06.0	So she went and listened to quite a couple of your podcast.
1:09.1	And then she kind of explained to me what of the five-bring thing you do. So you used your mum as a researcher? Yeah, she's my free researcher. Yeah, I was going to say, did you pay her? No, I don't pay her. Well, I can give her, I take her on holiday, though. That's payment? Yeah, that's payment. So where will you take her on holiday for this where's the next holiday you've got paid oh I better not say it out loud because she's going to be like well I remember do you remember you said you're going to take me here for holiday so I don't want to stay where I were going to take her because she would be like waiting for it and reminding me every time. I know. Well, I went through a stage. I would take my mum on holiday and it got to the stage where some people thought we were a couple. And luckily, well, you know, you and your mum might have that but my mum really played up to it. Did she? Yeah.
2:01.2	So she told a waiter in Dubai that I was a male jigolo that she got cheap because my
2:08.0	eye was lazy.
2:09.8	Oh.
2:10.4	Yeah.
2:10.8	Yes, it was quite the moment.
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