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Hello and welcome to How Do You Cope with Ellis and John.

This is the fifth episode of Series 2 and today we're speaking to Last Leg presenter Alex Brooker

and we thought we'd warn you there is some swearing in this week's episode so enter with caution

if that's not your thing. Also because the nature of these conversations if you are

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Hey everyone, welcome to How Do You Cope with Ellis and John.

Today's guest is the fantastic Alex Bruer, who you may know from the last leg and various other TV projects.

Anyway, Ellis, how's your shame?

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