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S MAGAZINE ★ 23 MAY 2021 15 ‘I’d pass out if I did Strictly!’
Comedian Kerry Godliman on her waning stamina, embracing more drama in her life and seeing the funny side of stand-up Zoom gigs
t’s hard to believe it but Kerry Hi Kerry. You’re doing so year, thank God I had acting I honestly can’t explain it to Godliman’s new detective well in stand-up and acting. to fall back on. And I never you, but it’s certainly better show, Whitstable Pearl, Did you ever have a plan B thought I’d use that phrase! than nothing. I marks the first major lead when it came to your career? Stand-up’s gone, it’s been role in her career. No, there wasn’t. What’s funny walloped. I had to pull a tour At least there are no “I was extremely excited and is stand-up has been such a and all live work literally hecklers… almost shocked,” the 47-year- part of my life now for 20 years, flatlined, but I’ve had all this It’s not ideal as the timing’s old comedian and actress tells whereas acting I could never amazing acting work that I’d a bit off. Every comedian will us over Zoom. “I suppose if I depend on. But in this last never have been able to do tell you the worst thing you canan ever did get a lead, I expected pre-Covid because of my do at a live gig is zoom in on it to be in comedy, so I was schedule. So it’s been this the one person who’s yawningg pleasantly surprised and mad ride. when 250 people are laughing.g. extremely flattered.” In a Zoom gig, you might see But for those who ‘I love Has this time made someone eating a yoghurt. have tuned in to Kerry you appreciate You’re like, “Mate! I’m workingg over the years, it will stand-up more? my a**e off and you’re just come as no surprise. getting out and I’ve always loved both. eating a yoghurt in your house!”e!” After storming the There have been phases It makes me feel like a winner. stand-up and panel performing live. where I’ve thought, show circuit, Kerry “I could probably wind Did you expect your careerr showed she was no down stand-up now and to take this turn in your one-trick pony and has Nothing not do it so much,” but forties where you’d be built up an impressive I really love it and have leading a new drama? acting CV with shows beats it’ always been happy to I didn’t see Whitstable Pearl including Save Me and continue doing both if I can. coming at all. But me doing Adult Material. But it was I’m doing a tour in the autumn, drama has been slowly when Ricky Gervais cast her though, so hopefully I’ll get happening. And because the as the late Lisa in his hilarious, back on the road. characters I play with Ricky but at times heart-wrenching, [Gervais] in Derek and After Lifefe Netflix show After Life that Do you like life on the road? have always straddled comedyy Kerry found herself propelled There are pros and cons. I’m and drama, I’ve been able to to a new level of stardom. a bit of a home bunny so I do wear both hats. I don’t doubt We caught up with down- like to be at home, but I love without After Life that I wouldn’tt to-earth Kerry, who is mum to getting out and performing live. have got Whitstable Pearl. Elsie, 14, and Frank, 10, with Nothing beats it. Zoom gigs her actor husband Ben Abell, are the weirdest thing. Nothing What’s Whitstable Pearl to chat about her latest will make you feel like you’re all about? project, how she made people having an existential crisis more Pearl was a police officer whenn laugh over lockdown, and her With children than shouting down a webcam she was young, in her early changing role at home… Elsie and Frank trying to make people laugh. twenties. She had an ambitionn
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Kerry plays a sleuth in Whitstable Pearl
to work ork up p to detective, detecti e After Life ’s been a huge h ge hit.hit but then she got pregnant Do people get in touch to and her life went in a different say it’s helped them through direction. She raised her a tough period of grieving? son on her own, set up All the time. A bloke said to me a seafood restaurant with recently that he hadn’t cried in her mum, and all of that decades and After Life made has gone very well. But now him cry. He was really glad and her son’s thinking of leaving grateful that something opened home, the restaurant’s very him up. We have a culture of established and Pearl is being weird around mortality thinking, “What do I want?” and death and we don’t talk about it. So it’s amazing She’s worried about an empty a show has opened people nest. Your kids are young, up to that conversation. but can you relate to that? Totally. I’m already feeling it. Can you walk through the My daughter is 14 and she’s supermarket without being extremely independent. I used stopped about the show? to have to fill the weekends with If people recognise me, it’s activities and now she’s got her eight times out of 10 After Life own thing. She’s like, “I’ve made – or Taskmaster. There’s such plans!” Suddenly I find myself affection for After Life, people going, “What am I for then?” talk to me like they know me. My role is changing as the kids grow up, so there’s a parallel You mentioned Taskmaster. theme between me and Pearl. Would you ever do another I’m coming to a part of my life reality show, like Strictly? where I’m not needed as much I don’t think I’ve got the stamina at home, so the timing to go for Strictly. I’d pass out! But off and do a three-month shoot I judged on The Great British was OK. Also, I got out of Menu, and loved that. Anything doing a bit of homeschooling! where I get to eat and people do my hair, I’m on board. But Lucky you! We bet anything where I’m out of your husband wasn’t breath, I’ll avoid. ●S best pleased… When I got back in February, Whitstable Pearl is out from he handed me the pens and Monday, 24 May, on streaming paper and said, “Your turn!” service Acorn TV WORDS: RIANNE ISON PHOTOS: ADRIAN LOURIE / EVENING STANDARD / EYEVINE GETTY WORDS: RIANNE ISON PHOTOS: ADRIAN LOURIE / EVENING STANDARD
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Anyone for tea? Her Majesty the Queen’s annual Royal Garden Parties are a hot ticket
or the first time ever, the Lucky members of the public Queen will open her 39-acre who’ve received a posh invite to tea Buckingham Palace gardens have already enjoyed an afternoon F to the public from July roaming the central London oasis. to September for picnics. Pre-pandemic, she traditionally held The focal point is the 19th-century at least three annual soirées at the lake – once graced by a small flock of palace to thank individuals who’ve flamingos that fell prey to a fox – but served charities and communities. there are also waterfalls, wildflower Due to Covid-19 restrictions, they’re meadows and over 1,000 trees, cancelled again this year. including a stunning Magnolia given Here’s a little insight into the rather to the Queen on her 55th birthday.y grandg affairs...
What to wear The dress code is definitely not smart casual! Gentlemen should wear a morning dress or lounge suit, featuring a formal jacket with tails, matching waistcoat and trousers. Women are expected to wear a day dress, preferably with a hat or fascinator. Umbrellas are advisable if the weather looks iffy. In 2009, a huge thunderstorm sent gugguestsests and royals scurrying for cover!
TheTh prep Prepping begins months in advance. The lawns, which are infused with chamomile for a relaxing aroma, are mowed in two directions to give a chequered effect, and deadheading and weeding are carried out. Luxury designer washrooms are trucked in for the events, while three tents are erected – the Royal Tea Tent, the Diplomatic Tent and a St John’s Ambulance First Aid Tent. WORDS: GAIA PITT-JUDD PHOTOS: ALAMY, GETTY PHOTOS: ALAMY, WORDS: GAIA PITT-JUDD
20 S MAGAZINE ★ 23 MAY 2021 ROYALTY Securing an invite The parties are the Queen’s way of rewarding public service and a network of sponsors nominate people who’ve gone above and beyond for charities and local communities. Invites are handwritten by the Garden Party Ladies, who work part-time for the royal household. It’s a plus-one rule, so guests can bring a partner or friend.
Order of the day From 3pm guests pass through the Grand Hall, out onto the terrace for a wander around the grounds. At 4pm sharp, the royal party arrive to the sound of the National Anthem, played by one of the two military bands. The Queen’s Senior Gentleman Usher, aided by a team of retired armed forces officers, picks out people to introduce to the royals – but not before a quick briefing on royal etiquette! The monarch then heads to the Royal Tea Tent to meet more attendees and the band play lively tunes like Lord Of The Dance. The parties last no more than three hours.
BEHIND THE SCENES HOW ‘I saw guests sneaking MANY?! cakes into their 27,000 cups of tea handbags!’ 20,000 slices On the menu Amy Packer worked for the catering company who of cake You won’t find a single drop organised everything backstage at the parties in 2017. 20,000 sandwiches of alcohol – not even a glass of “My main job was to keep the tables overflowing with tasty 110 staff Buckingham Palace gin and tonic infused morsels. The guests were like locusts! My favourite game 8,000 guests at with herbs from the garden. Instead, Twinings was making eye contact with someone just as they were each party Garden Party tea, Sandringham apple juice, shoehorning an iced cake into their handbags as a souvenir. 21 millimetres iced coffee and iced water are on offer. There On the final day, Her Majesty wanted to thank us for our – the precise height are usually six choices of finger sandwich hard work. We were lined up, asked not to speak unless the grass is cut to fillings, such as free-range egg mayonnaise with spoken to and advised to make no sudden movements. cress or ham and tomatoes with wholegrain She arrived, looking summery in a pea green number. One 15 decades since mustard. Sweet treats feature too, including of her corgis got close to the catering manager. Thinking it the first royal traditional scones with blackcurrant jam and might cock its leg, he waved his foot around to send it on its garden party clotted cream and rose cheesecake. way. As the corgi scuttled off, the manager said, ‘I thought (in the 1860s!) S for a second I might get taken down by a bodyguard!’”● TO 19 SEPTEMBER. FROM 9 JULY GARDENS WILL BE AVAILABLE ACCESS TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE OR CALL 0303 123 7300 RCT.UK VISITOR INFO AND TICKETS CAN BE FOUND AT
S MAGAZINE ★ 23 MAY 2021 21 Lynne Hyland Good to glow Self-tan sales are booming as the UK’s social life takes off, but are the latest smart fakes the real deal? Beauty director Lynne Hyland has been finding out
don’t hang out with my best disguises skin that’s mottled male friend for compliments. with cold from a pub garden Let’s just say he’s the sort of with no patio heaters. (Hurrah mickey taker I suspect was for being allowed inside again!) the worst pigtail puller in the I’m not the only one indulging in Iplayground. So when we met a little post-lockdown fakery either. for our first post-lockdown beer, When the first set of restrictions I nearly fell off my chair when he lifted last month, Boots saw a said, “You look… quite well.” 300% surge in self-tan sales. It’s Now it could have been an exciting time to be shopping for because I was buying the round, a new faux glow, too, with a host but I’m pretty sure it’s because of innovative “tans with benefits” I was wearing fake tan. After all, launching. I’ve tested five of the no other beauty product makes most talked-about newbies to find pasty souls more presentable for out which are really worth real-life get-togethers, or better including in your social life...
The speedy worker The drip-feed tan Fastest off the line is James Read developed perfectly evenly, and I Tan GLOW20 Tan Mousse, £30, was impressed with the natural- Here’s the faux glow that keeps which promises to leave other looking tone. However, the final intensifying, like a genuine express tans in the dust. While the result from a 60-minute marinade – sunshine tan. Vita Liberata typical quick-developing tan needs recommended for a “medium” tan Heavenly Elixir Tan, £34, calls to be left on an hour for a light glow, – was lighter than I’d have liked. itself “the first-ever slow release this one promises to do it in just I re-did it for 90 minutes the next tan”, which continues to deepen 20 minutes, while a deeper bronze week and that’s what gave me the for three days once you’ve purportedly takes 90 minutes healthy glow my MBFF clocked. showered it off. instead of the usual three hours. It gives a gorgeous colour and it’s My verdict: If you need to leave My verdict: The guide colour a bit faster than other express a fake tan on for at least eight looked a bit muddy but I wasn’t mousses I’ve used, but I reckon hours of developing time, you’ll fazed, knowing it would soon be you’d need to leave it on for want one with an instant effect down the shower drain. I’m glad to several hours for the full-on like this: think glam bronzer report that the tan underneath Barbados bronze. rather than Marmite. It was also
22 S MAGAZINE ★ 23 MAY 2021 The super-sensitive milk Sensitive faces don’t always erythrulose tans before (did I take kindly to being doused in mention that my husband hates fake tan. However utan Gentle the smell of DHA…?) and Glow, £18, promises to stay on haven’t seen much of a colour the right side of even allergy- result. However, Gentle Glow prone complexions thanks to lives up to its name, delivering a fragrance-free face formula a subtle lift after three to four that swaps dehydrating DHA applications. It takes time to get for erythrulose, a gentle, going so I don’t think you’d use raspberry-derived skin tanner. this unless regular fake tan was My verdict: I’m lucky enough out of bounds but it’s brilliant to not to be the target market for see utan taking such an this product, but I was intrigued inclusive approach. to see if it worked. I’ve tried
The sleep-enhancing mist There are tons of tans that My verdict: I’ve got to hand give you a glow while you it to IOP, this is an ingenious sleep, but what about one spin on overnight tanning. that helps you drift off faster, It smells similar to my regular too? That’s the idea behind lavender sleep mist – no cries Isle of Paradise Night Glow, of, “Ugh, are you wearing fake £15.95, which is a hybrid tan?” from the other side of between gradual face tan the bed – and even if I didn’t and pillow spray. It contains quite get my eight hours, my a relaxing blend of lavender, subtly warmed-up complexion ylang-ylang and jasmine, looked like I had. I especially which mixes with the tanning like it for topping up an existing ingredients when you shake fake tan, which always fades the bottle. fastest on my face.
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S MAGAZINE ★ 23 MAY 2021 25 Life as I know it Jason Gardener The Olympic gold medallist, 45, on being an adrenaline junkie, his soft spot for gadgets and why people call him the Bullet
My nickname is… the Bullet. One thing I would change The best thing my parents I was nicknamed the Bath Bullet about myself would be… taught me was… to treat after I broke the European record I’m too kind and generous with people with respect and have when winning a bronze medal in my time. It might be seen as good manners. My father was the World Indoor Championships a positive thing but the older a disciplinarian and I think those in 1999, so it stems from there. values are good to have in life.
My biggest challenge was… My greatest weakness is… trying to achieve my childhood ‘Don’t I’m very trusting. Sometimes dream of being an Olympic that can come across as a champion. It took 20 years from weakness, and with that, you the age of seven to when I won waste time can get taken advantage of. gold in the Athens Olympics in 2004. I never knew my goal on things The bravest thing I’ve done… would take so long! is going up in a Red Arrows plane. That was crazy, being My perfect evening is… a nice that don’t flown upside down, full loops evening walk before going to and all of that. But, being one of our favourite pubs or a matter’ a bit of an adrenaline junkie, restaurant. Ideally we’d enjoy I really enjoyed it. I felt dinner and lots of wine on a I was in safe hands with the terrace overlooking beautiful you get the more you value your amazingly professional pilots. countryside, then go back home time and it’s important not The other brave thing I’ve to wwatchatch a mmovie.ovie. to waste done, which people say was itit ono things absolutely stupid, was taking thatth don’t part in a BBC One television Jason won the matter.m pgprogramme, , Bobsleighg 60m race at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships
He’s flown with the Red Arrows
26 S MAGAZINE ★ 23 MAY 2021 Collecting his gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics
Challenge. We were a bunch of rookies – all different sports people. We had one week to see if we could be competitive enough to compete in the British Championships. That was probably the scariest thing I’ve done. I remember feeling like I was going to be sick when I jumped into the back.
Not many people know this, but I’m good at… being a mentor to people, especially in sports. I enjoy that side of it.
The worst job I’ve ever had… was working in a bakery at a young age. That was hard!
The people who inspire me are… my teachers and my coaches. They inspire me every step of the way.
The most expensive thing I’ve splashed out on is… apart from my house, a watch. I treated myself after winning the Indoor Championships and the Olympics.
A shop I can’t walk past is… any technology shop. I am a sucker for gadgets. So, I definitely can’t walk anywhere near an Apple store. ●S
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S MAGAZINE ★ 23 MAY 2021 27 ‘I want to teach my daughter that the world is precious’ GoodGdMi Morning Britain Biti meteorologisttlit Laura Tobin chats about motherhood and her dreams of going on Strictly
atching Laura would have. So the advice is, Tobin and her “Don’t go to supermarkets, don’t three-year-old hang around with anybody who’s daughter got a cold.” Essentially lockdown Charlotte play [advice], which we did anyway duringW our gorgeous photoshoot, in the first two years of her life. it’s clear they’re inseparable. Then six months later we were And when we catch up with in lockdown [laughs]. So we’ve the Good Morning Britain known what a lockdown entails. meteorologist afterwards, we It’s a shame it’s been in the past hear about how their bond was year, when we were finally more forged as they braved the tot’s confident to do other things. tough start in life. In July 2017, Laura’s colleague Dr Hilary Jones Has Charlotte built up her told her to go to hospital after immune system now, letting she suffered stomach pains on her mix more? set – and it turned out she was Yeah, it’s pretty much when
going into labour 12 weeks early. they’re two. Although we went A LAURA: BLOUSE & JEANS BY RIVER ISLAND; CHARLOTTE: L & JEANS BY RIVER ISLAND, HAIR BAND MILLEDEUX & Charlotte weighed just 2lb 8oz into town, sat in a coffee shop on arrival and had a weak and she got a cold, and we had immune system, which left her to go back into hospital for a unable to live a normal life and week. We were like, “We won’t socialise during her first two do that again.” She doesn’t feel years. Thankfully, she’s suffered she’s missing out on much [in no lasting health complications lockdown], because she’s from her premature birth and already done it. Laura and Laura says she has blossomed Charlotte into a caring and outgoing child So was the coronavirus a are doing the who loves the outdoors. worry for you with Charlotte’s Sudocrem Laura now works to raise weaker immune system? 90km cycle awareness around premature At first we were really cautious, for charity births with charity Ickle Pickles, thinking, “It’s a respiratory thing, Ickle Pickles which is raising funds via the and her lungs aren’t that strong, Sudocrem 90km Challenge – are we going to be OK?” Then a a cycling adventure the whole few weeks later, it came out that said, “My goodness, you don’t Were you worried when family can take part in. it doesn’t affect little ones nearly look well.” Charlotte [Hawkins] Charlotte was in hospital? Here, Laura opens up about as badly. That was a huge said, “Oh, it’s Braxton Hicks.” One of the mums said, “It’s one her parenting journey... weight off our minds. Dr Hilary was on his way in, so step forward and two steps Debbie in wardrobe phoned him back, but overall you’re taking Charlotte is adorable! What was it like giving and he said, “It sounds like she steps forward.” We stayed calm How have you guys coped birth prematurely? might be going into labour but and listened to the doctors, and with lockdown? If you knew what was don’t tell her. I don’t want her to I had Dr Hilary on hand. He had Charlotte loves being outdoors. happening, you’d be very worry. St Thomas’s hospital is premature twins, born around When you have a premature worried, but I didn’t know I was down the road…” I just turned the same gestation as Charlotte. baby, they’re vulnerable to all going into labour. The story is, up at hospital, then it slowly Nothing came as a shock, illnesses because they don’t have I turned up at work, I had a dawned on me, “OK, fine. It’s because Dr Hilary told me the immunity a normal-term baby tummy ache, the wardrobe lady going to happen.” what to expect.
LAURA WEARS: OUTFIT, ASQUITH; TRAINERS, TED BAKER. CHARLOTTE WEARS: JACKET, MONNALISA FROM 28 KIDSWEAR COLLECTIVE; TOP, ANGEL’S FACE; LEGGINGS, RACHEL RILEY; TRAINERS, RIVER ISLAND S MAGAZINE ★ 23 MAY 2021 INTERVIEW
and investigative. I want to teach her that the world is precious and that’s why being outdoors is so important to us.
What’s it like being part of the Good Morning Britain team? It’s a privilege every day to be in Laura is in awe of Kate people’s living rooms. I have the Garraway’s courage best job in the world. The team are on point every day. When I joined, I recall watching Lorraine [when[ h heh left]l f ] andd thath wholeh l [Kelly] and how she worked with week was just a crazy week – guests. Her and Susanna [Reid] but that’s all I’m going to say are of the same mould – they about that. know everything, backwards, forwards and inside out. It’s like a There are also a lot of masterclass watching them. rumours that you’re set to appear on Strictly. Is that Kate Garraway’s been something you’d be through so much with interested in? husband Derek Draper being I would love to do Strictly. I love hospitalised with coronavirus. dancing and singing, that’s all You must be so proud of her... I do around the house with She’s amazing. Her documentary Charlotte. I would be available... [Finding Derek] is amazing. She’s really open, even on air, which Tell us about your work with I’m amazed by. She’s doing it the Ickle Pickles charity... because there are so many It was set up by a mum called people going through something Rachel whose son was born similar. It helps her and other about 12 weeks early. The nurse
JUMPSUIT BY DAMSEL IN A DRESS, SHOES STEVE MADDEN, EARRINGS BUTLER AND WILSON people. Piers Morgan said to her used to call him her “Ickle Pickle” of the situation with Derek, “Treat and the name stuck with them. this as a piece of research, Rachel wanted to do something look at every angle, every to say thank you and help avenue, and you will other people, so they set up ‘Watching come out of the other the charity. Anybody can help side of this.” She’s raise money for it and they will tackled it in a very give the proceeds to hospitals Lorraine and methodical way, I that might need things such as think. She continues to a new incubator or breast pump. be really strong – but So far, they’ve raised nearly Susanna is like that’s what she’s like. £1.5 million. She’s the craziest, a masterclass’ most disorganised Tell us about the Sudocrem organised person you’ll 90km cycle, which will raise ever meet. money for the charity... You have to cycle 90km as a In what way? family. If you’re really ambitious If it weren’t for him, would What’s Her room is a mess, Ben you can do it in a day, or you have gone to hospital Charlotte’s [Shephard] is always going on you’ve got until the end of the that day? personality like? about her hair being a mess and year to do little journeys as a I don’t know! I’m guessing I She’s funny and kind. When you once her handbag actually had a family and you get your friends would, but probably much further smile, it makes her smile. She’s bird’s nest in it, because it was a and relatives to sponsor you. down the line, when I realised I brave and likes playing on her project one of her children was When the weather gets nicer was going into labour. I’m sure scooter. She doesn’t miss a trick doing at school. But she we’ll go out on journeys CARTNEY PHOTOS: LORNA ROACH HAIR AND MAKE-UP: NATASHA SCHMITT PHOTOS: LORNA ROACH HAIR AND MAKE-UP: NATASHA CARTNEY my editor would have loved that and loves make-up. remembers every interview, down the river. ●S C – giving birth live on air. By that everything she’s ever done. point Dr Hilary would have been Would you like Charlotte to For information on taking part in in and it would have been his job be a scientist, like you? How’s it been since Piers left? the Sudocrem 90km Challenge, to deliver the baby. I don’t know I would love her to be. I think it’s Do you miss him? visit sudocrem.co.uk/cycle-more USING SAM MCKNIGHT HAIRCARE AND NARS MAKE-UP STYLING: HARRIET NICHOLSON how I feel about that [laughs]. really important to be inquisitive I wasn’t even there that day or icklepickles.org WORDS: GEMMA M
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