The potential to be problematic (with Paul Feig)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.7 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today is a new day and the playlist is closed! Fi finally delivers her heavily-trailed lodger email, and there are accents… proceed with caution. There are also threats of a Christmas haiku, discussions about childhood hobbies, and another door of Hetty's advent calendar is opened.
Plus, Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids, discusses directing the adaptation of Freida McFadden’s bestselling novel The Housemaid.
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| 0:00.0 | Do do, do do do do do do. |
| 0:10.0 | I've got that as my earworm, which is Haley's suggestion for the playlist, which is the rubber band man by the spinners. |
| 0:19.0 | I haven't heard it for years. Now welcome to to Offair with not Jane, but Fee and Eve and all of you. |
| 0:27.4 | And happy Christmas to you all. |
| 0:29.3 | And we're speaking quite quietly today because Eve was at the Christmas party last night. |
| 0:34.4 | And as her party trick, which I've never seen. |
| 0:37.1 | Oh, my God. Oh my God. |
| 0:40.6 | As you know by now, Eve, everything is content. |
| 0:44.1 | Yes. |
| 0:44.7 | Eve's party trick is to do the splits, which she did last night in the bar, but she can't |
| 0:49.2 | remember why. |
| 0:50.1 | Can't remember why. |
| 0:51.3 | Definitely pulled a muscle. |
| 0:53.5 | When I drop into the splits, that's how you know I'm really pissed. |
| 0:58.3 | I just love this. |
| 0:59.8 | I love the idea that everybody is just going about their business at the Christmas party. |
| 1:05.3 | They're all having a nice little huddle, having a bitch about management, |
| 1:09.4 | getting a little bit too drunk, talking about people |
| 1:11.9 | they fancy, and suddenly Eve just drops. At uni, I actually split my trousers. Oh, Eve, well, thank |
| 1:19.5 | God it was just your trousers, love. Oh, this is just brilliant. So I haven't been to the Christmas party since Jane and I went on the first year that we were at Times Towers. |
| 1:32.5 | And it was an absolutely magnificent event in an arch in Waterloo. |
| 1:37.3 | And we had a great time. |
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