Zoe Ball

I have real spelling... I have spelling issues.

You know, I'm not very good at spelling and I am not particularly great at grammar and...

Maybe I need to.

Maybe that's why you're so good on the radio, because you had elocution lessons.

I mean, I can barely say that word.

Maybe that's what I need to do, Jo, is go and have some elocution lessons.

Oh, no, that's terrible.

But also, surely everyone else has to check it.

And this is what happens, isn't it?

Sometimes you scan check and then, you know, yeah, someone is in real big trouble, aren't they?

Whoops-a-daisy.

I do remember the first time Shirley Ballas came on It Takes Two and I was a bit nervous to meet her and I went, ladies and gentlemen, Shirley Bassey.

like oh my god because that's my dyslexic brain that's my brain confused those names are so similar and that's my brain confusing the letters god i'm i'm dying for god it was awful and she looked really unimpressed and i think also i'd called her dame shirley and i think that threw me

because it was like i was trying to be like a bigger up and then i so then i was like dame shirley bussy whoops um but i've done loads of those things it's awful you just want the ground to swallow you up i did a gig once in my early days of doing some dj sets and i remember having the dance floor in front of me everyone dancing along and i just went um

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I'm not surprised.

I got all my stuff in probably the week before.

And, you know, we're sort of a bit further south, so the alliums have come up, the nepetas all opening, the salvias are starting to flower, the camassias are up, all very blue and purple.

And then luckily I was thinking, God, it's just green and purple.

But my lovely Olivia Rose opened this weekend and they smell beautiful.