Dawn O’Porter

And I'd wanted to do this, you know, ball to raise money.

And they offered to pay for the whole thing.

So we've got all of these amazing nights, but we're just like, you know, the advert for bum wipes.

I was sitting at my desk a while ago writing,

And I was having to do an interview for something and they asked me to describe myself in three words.

And I really had a hard time doing it.

I wish I'd put eccentric actually, but it's a difficult thing to say about yourself.

But I'm sitting there, my dead stuffed cat is on my desk and then my tortoise walked over my feet.

I don't have a normal...

None of this is normal.

So I should have just put, I just put cats.

I just thought that's how I'm going to describe myself.

But I think being called eccentric is such a compliment because we, and this is why I love gems so much.

I think with the world that we live in, the self-awareness of what social media has done to us all, we're all so, so, so aware of what we're putting out there, how we're being received, so scared of getting canceled.

And it's just so lovely to surround yourself with people who are just so unashamedly themselves, not worried about

the perception and not worried about necessarily saying the wrong thing just more interested in saying something and I think I'm really drawn to people like that and that's that's kind of the underlying basis of our friendship like Gemma's this fireball in life I whenever I introduce her to someone new I just feel this the same way I feel when I introduce one of my kids you know we're just so unbelievably proud I'm like she's

If you get a character like Gem, the idea of getting in her way would be abusive.

Like the idea of getting in the way of someone who is so bursting to make the world a better place.

And so when you're friends with someone like that,

the idea of jealousy coming into it, the idea of competitiveness coming into it is just so nasty.