Summary
Overview
Zoe Ball and Joe (Jo) Wiley discuss listener questions ranging from children in pub gardens to memorable 1990s photos, including Zoe's iconic wedding day image and measuring Bono's nipples for a Radio 1 competition. They share quick meal recipes, with Joe revealing her unusual combination of soup, hummus, and cottage cheese with pineapple, while also hearing a hilarious story about a burgled sex toy.
Children in Pub Gardens Debate
Leanne writes in expressing frustration about children running around in pub beer gardens, feeling it disrupts the adult atmosphere. Both hosts push back on this view, sharing their own experiences growing up in pubs and taking their children to family-friendly establishments. They emphasize that pub gardens are traditional family spaces and suggest Leanne should seek out adult-only bars instead if she wants a child-free environment.
- Leanne is frustrated by children running around in pub beer gardens like 'Olympic qualifiers'
- Joe grew up in and around pubs, viewing them as proper family social events with other families
- Zoe's kids used to hate pubs and walks on Sundays, but parents need these spaces to relax
- Parents should be able to take kids to pubs at weekends - it's a traditional family activity
- Zoe advocates for solidarity with parents struggling with hyperactive or upset children in public
" I think if you want to not have any kids around, you go to a bar or you go to a more, you know, there's quite a distinction between adult pubs and family friendly pubs. So you just choose to go to your adult pubs, I think. "
" If you're on an aeroplane now, if a parent is having a nightmare with a kid who's really upset, he's screaming or a kid who wants to play with you sitting in front of them or they're walking up and down, I will always be like, I've been here. I get it. "
The Iconic Wedding Day Photo
Jodie asks about Zoe's famous 1990s photo showing her with a cigarette and bottle of Jack Daniels on her wedding day. Zoe reveals she'd been up all night trying to make a mixtape for the ceremony and had barely slept when her brother stuck a hat on her head, handed her the Jack Daniels, and sent her out the door. She shares that her kids love this photo and she's proud she can still fit into those jeans from the wedding weekend.
- Zoe stayed up all night trying to make a mixtape for her wedding ceremony, getting only to track four
- Her brother gave her the hat and Jack Daniels as she walked out the door, saying 'good luck kid'
- The wedding was a four-day weekend with the press following them on a 'secret mission'
- Zoe kept those jeans from the photo and can still fit into them
" I was walking out the door and my brother just, he just stuck the hat on me, handed me the jack of the house and went, good luck kid, and out I went. "
" The thing I'm really proud of is those jeans I kept them because you know there are certain clothes that you keep because they're special... I was like, I will never get back in those trousers, but I've kept them and I can get in them. "
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