Maddie Alexander Grout

And then I got bored and I was like, I miss being in the press.

I've got to do it.

And I've had some amazing opportunities.

Like I got invited by the Sun to be part of their cabinet before the election.

and they were basically making a mock cabinet so I got taken out to London and you know they they paid for us all to like have like they paid us anyway um and then we all got pictures and I was due to interview Keir Starmer um and uh one of my one of my trolls um somebody who really didn't like me contacted the son and said uh Maddie's a fraud she's stolen loads of money from HMRC

And the son were like, we're really sorry, we're going to have to let you go.

And I was absolutely devastated.

Like it was the biggest PR thing of my entire life.

They still paid me, which was nice.

And they were like, we're doing it to protect you.

But it was completely a fabricated thing.

And I was like, look, you know, phone HMRC and they will tell you I've not stolen any money.

um but they still were like yeah we have to protect you so sometimes it's nice when like you know you do have that side where like everybody thinks that journalists and and the press are actually always out to get you like what the sun did for me was actually really kind i think so yeah you know they there are nice sides to it yeah of course and you know if you strip it all back

Did you know that clickbait is the Oxford Dictionary's word of the year?

Hmm.

Which proves that it's on the up.

I mean, they're probably only about five years late, but... Yeah, but it was a weird one to have.

And I thought, oh, yeah, OK.

Yeah, interesting.

I mean, I was kind of hoping that Sickfluencer would be up there.