Dame Arlene Phillips

Yeah, very happy to have you.

But then I just fall in the deep end, I'm like, okay, I've said too much.

But yeah, we would just use like communication cards, sounds, movements.

I think my family kind of knew me, obviously, and that's how we grew communication then.

It was actually acting that gave me the expression, the escapism to use sounds.

I started like murmuring in like American accents and doing these weird, silly things that were just like normal for me.

Yeah, I think it's on reflection.

Like at the time, I remember my parents, obviously for my parents, it was like a massive thing.

I was like, what?

we've had this whole child and he's like, murmured, he's done tap things, he's done that.

And now suddenly he's like, coming downstairs and he's doing this.

And he's like, and my parents are like, what the heck is going on?

And it was actually, cause I feel like I found a voice via a character.

And this is one reflection that I've realized, found a voice via a character.

And then I was like, oh no, Bradley can do this as well.

And then obviously it's a muscle at the end of the day.

So I had a stammer for quite a while.

And that was at like junior school, primary school.

Yeah, yeah, it was, I think my nan was definitely like a big, a big person.

She, you know, old school, like she was like, ah, ill speak, I'll throw him into the drama school, like throw me into this like sea of girls.