Ella Al-Shamahi

But it wasn't, you know, I was never turning around telling the, you know, other classmates who were.

I like the sound of that.

I mean, if you'd have known me at the age of 18, I was a dork.

So, the idea of being a double agent is somewhat hilarious.

Look, I was obsessed.

I was a woman on a mission.

And so I turn up to University College London, which for those of you in the know is known as the godless place on Gower Street because it's the first university to have like allowed non-Church of England people to kind of join up.

And I went to the Darwin building because Charles Darwin himself, he lived there.

Yeah.

And that was my department.

And by the way, it's kind of hilarious because I was like dressed in very, very conservative Muslim garb.

I wasn't even just in a hijab.

I was in the full.

So I wasn't just in the head covering.

I was in the full jilbab, which is like that full cloak.

By the way, not that there's anything wrong with dressing however you want.

I'm like, man, you just be you, you know.

There were a few girls in hijab actually, but they were interested in more medical genetics.

They weren't kind of doing what I was covertly up to.

I remember there was one girl who was also kind of vaguely associated with my world kind of thing.