Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today. So the heaven's going to open. We're all going to get terribly, terribly wet, and we're going to complain bitterly about it. But there again, we complained with sunshine, we complained with the snow, we complained with the wind, we complain with the lightning, we complain with the thunder, now we're going to complain about the rain. Because it is going to come down today. I personally don't mind. I do have a little umbrella in my bag, because I don't believe in walking back with a big umbrella. You look a bit silly. And mine's a bit, it's a little tiny,

but it is a tiny umbrella. But at least it just keeps the rain off you. I just wish they'd

build more bus stops that you can stand under. They don't seem to have bus stops like that now,

do they? All a bit embarrassing. Anyway, which are celebrities fall under the Steve Allen

spotlight for this morning? Well, firstly, from The Daily Star, Telly Babe, sorry to me, they give

them these sort of titles, and they're not really, they're just very plain people. This is Frankie

Essex. This is the sister of little Joey. She was

dropped from Towie because, to be honest with you, she didn't do anything. She wasn't very

interesting at all. And they sort of tarted her up in the paper to make it look like some sort of vamp.

But apparently, after being on the ITV show for three years, it left her feeling worthless and depressed.

I know I felt the same watching you. I felt totally worthless and depressed. I don't know why we

were sort of watching it. Frankiers lifted the lid on what really went on behind the scenes and why she

quit. She said, I left because I was sick of waiting around. If you aren't filming,

you're just left to sit around doing nothing. I know. It's awful, that, isn't it really? Mainly because you couldn't do anything.

So, she says, I'd be walking into a club on camera, thinking I looked like I got really fed up with it after a while.

The producers would take our phone's office. They treated us like we were at school.

Oh, do you, don't take instruction very well, do you, Frankie? But anyway, it's over the bitter filming rounds. But to be honest with you, love, you're not a looker.

You know, and I don't mean that, you know, in an uncaring sort of way. It's just that you're very

plain and very ordinary. You know, anybody can turn up in their underwear and try and look sexy. It doesn't work for you at all. However, I did laugh at a piece also in The Daily Star,

which was a former friend of Helen Wood, who said, she worked as an escort because she was desperate

for cash and faced becoming homeless. And also she had to, she had rent to pay, and she did it to

provide for her child. That's okay. That's okay. Once a hooker or was a hooker.

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