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🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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This week on Walking The Dog, Emily and Raymond are in Battersea Park for a walk with the comedian, actor and satirist Rosie Holt - who is well known for playing her brilliant character Rosie Holt MP.
Rosie tells us about growing up as one of five in a family home that was described as ‘The Bermuda Triangle For Dogs’. She also explains how she lost her confidence at secondary school and the journey she went on to finding comedy after initially trying to make it as an actor.
Why We Were Right by Rosie Holt MP is out on 20th June. Pre-order your copy here!
Rosie’s podcast NonCensored is available now on all podcast platforms
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Walking The Dog is produced by Faye Lawrence
Music: Rich Jarman
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0:00.0 | Philip Paulman said he was aghast and like Henry Bolton the exit of New Kit |
0:06.9 | He said this is appalling that MPs are able to behave this way and say these kind of things. |
0:13.4 | This week on Walking the Dog Raymond and I popped over to London's Battersea Park |
0:17.6 | to go for a stroll with comedian, actor and political satirist Rosie Holt. |
0:22.4 | Rosie's shock to fame virtually overnight during lockdown |
0:25.6 | via her parody videos posing as a Tory MP who was so brilliantly plausible. |
0:31.6 | A lot of people were fooled into thinking she was real and |
0:34.4 | it won her millions of new fans and also led to a hugely successful live stand-up |
0:39.5 | tour. Rosie, it's fair to say, could not be more different from the character she plays. |
0:45.0 | She's super warm and sunny natured. |
0:47.2 | To be honest, she kind of lit up the whole part when she arrived. |
0:50.7 | So much though, that I even forgave her for laughing uncontrollably at Ray because she couldn't get over how ridiculous looking he is. |
0:57.0 | We had the loveliest chat about her childhood growing up with various dogs, her experiences starting out as an actor and we also |
1:05.3 | chatted about the slightly surreal nature of instant online fame and how she |
1:09.6 | navigated it. She's also just written a very funny parody book called Why We Were Right by Rosie Holt MP |
1:17.2 | bracket's loyal servant to Boris Liz and Ritchie which is genuinely hilarious so I really recommend you grab a copy now and for more |
1:25.9 | info on what Rosie's up to, go to Rosieholt.co. UK. I really hope you enjoy my chat |
1:31.9 | with Rosie. I'll stop talking now and |
1:33.9 | hand over to the woman herself. Here's Rosie and Ray Ray. Come on Ray. |
1:39.0 | Right Rosie. Sorry, what sort of dog is he? I mean I don't like the fact that you're |
1:44.8 | laughing as you're saying that Rosie Holt. He's like someone made him up |
1:49.5 | isn't he? It's very difficult not to sound like Hy Synth Bouquet when I say this. |
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