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Age Group:

21-30

Gender:

Female

Residence:

Lancashire - Blackburn

Education:

Higher Education

Occupation:

University Student

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Age Group:

21-30

Gender:

Female

Residence:

Tyneside - Newcastle

Education:

Higher Education

Occupation:

University Student

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Age Group:

21-30

Gender:

Female

Residence:

Tyneside - Newcastle

Education:

Higher Education

Occupation:

University Student

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I just (pause) it's so easy to just (pause) like I really want to [realized as 'wanna'] start reading 'cause I have trouble sleeping and I I'd love to get into a book and (pause) read before bed (pause) em (pause) but Yeah.

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Um (pause) do em either of you have any nicknames or anything?

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Em mine's (NAME) just because my surname's (NAME) (NAME), so everyone's just like '(NAME)'.

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Em I've like (pause) (unclear) [possible reading: because] it's (NAME) (NAME) people call me '(NAME)', or 'The (NAME)' or (pause) em my dad calls me '(NAME)' for (NAME) (NAME), but (pause) n- not really apart from that.

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Have they, do they still stick with you then?

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Yeah quite a few people s- still call me (NAME) (pause) not like new people that I meet but people who used to call me it from school

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(interruption) Yeah (laughter)

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(interruption) Like even the guys that I haven't seen in ages (pause) and like I'll be like 'oh hi (NAME)' and he'll be like 'you all right [realized as 'ya oright'] (NAME)', it's re- it's not nice but

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Em are either of you into any sports or anything?

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(tut) Em (pause) not um (pause) I don't play any at the minute but I em (pause) try and go to the gym and do try and run (pause) go on runs and things, I played netball when I was at school but then I kind of (pause) gave that up just before sixth-form because I got really into like

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Going (laughter) out [laughter ends]

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Going out and (pause) yeah

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(laughter) Boys [laughter ends]

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Boys. (laughter)

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Em I played netball, hockey, and did athletics (pause) through school em (pause) and then I tried to join the Uni netball team last year, and they basically laughed at me (laughter) it's I haven't played in [laughter ends] so long and they were all (pause) so fit and so good and like running round and I was like out of breath, red like (pause) so yeah I gave that up (unclear) [possible reading: and] (pause) stick with spinning classes and (pause) gym class I'm getting into gym class at the moment.

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Oh yeah we -- we -- we do spinning at the gym well we used to and were going to [realized as 'gonna'] get back into it

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Yeah

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That's supposed to be so hard

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Yeah, it is

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It's all right once you have a few sessions and get used to it

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Yeah.

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(laughter) Do you go running or?

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We er (pause) (interruption) um

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(interruption) We go through phases like in preparation for our summer holidays 'cause we all the girls went to Portugal, and before that we were like running loads we went on runs loads and then we've kind of given it up and were trying to get back into it, but because it's like winter and dark nights at the minute

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(interruption) Yeah

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(interruption) We're more going to the gym.

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We em I've done a couple of half marathons that were on last year and the year before, so I had to train up for those a little bit but (pause) not (laughter) very much [laughter ends] I did more to train up for my summer holiday than I did for the half (laughter) marathon [laughter ends] (interruption) so

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(interruption) (laughter)

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Ah we were supposed to do that, (sigh) (pause) but it didn't happen (laughter) was your time good?

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Em (pause) n- no (laughter) I beat my time from last year but [laughter ends] (pause) I (pause) was run I was running with my brother's girlfriend (pause) em and I would start the first half and I did it all too quickly so I had to stop in the middle (pause) and I thought I generally thought I was going to [realized as 'gonna'] die em (pause) but then (pause) I still beat my time from last time but only by like a couple of minutes (pause) but it's all right.

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Em (pause) do you remember what you were doing on nine-eleven?

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We were at school I r- remember we (pause) it was early morning I think it was, and they put the TV on (pause) in the gym (pause) oh and afterschool I remember everyone's parents, panicking (pause) like coming to pick them up and some people went home in the middle of the day and things.

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I literally have such a terrible memory that I can't don't know (pause) I li- I can't remember anything.

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I'm pretty sure it was in the morning (pause) like yeah I can't entirely remember (pause) but the em (pause) I do remember people's (pause) kid like the mums all lining up outside (pause) at like ten to four like 'oh my God, were going home!', sort of freaking out a bit but (pause) no [realized as 'nah'] I don't have very (pause) much memory about it.

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What about when Michael Jackson died?

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(gasp) I was in (pause) Thailand with my (pause) boyfriend slash ex boyfriend, don't really know what to call him (pause) em (pause) and we were at (pause) where were we -- we were in one of the hotels and it -- it was morning and someone said 'Michael Jackson's died', and we were like 'God'.

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I was in Tup Tup Palace (pause) when I found out

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That's really weird 'cause it's the time difference (laughter)

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Oh yeah

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So you were on a night out and I was I -- I having break (interruption) fast

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(interruption) Yes [realized as 'yeah']

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I remember I was me and my brother like, and me and my brother (pause) we went outside we were having a conversation we didn't believe it was true (pause) and we were like 'no he's just decided to (pause) sort of (pause) isolate himself from the world and gone somewhere' (pause) and I'm still not sure whether he is dead or not to be honest.

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(laughter)

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Really?

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(unclear) [possible reading: Well see] (pause) I do I believe more that he's dead now than I did, but (pause) there's a little inkling there which (pause) like (pause) (interruption) that he's not

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(interruption) Oh my God, maybe he's not

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Were you fans?

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Yeah (pause) well (pause) not like (pause) not like a fan but it's just music was (interruption) amazing and legendary and (pause) (interruption) like

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(interruption) Yeah (pause) (interruption) not like (pause) memorabilia buyers (laughter) or anything [laughter ends]

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(laughter) no yeah (pause) but yeah

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Did you believe he did it (pause) em?

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What do you mean?

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What he was accused of (interruption) sleeping with the

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(interruption) Oh (pause) [informant inbreathe] I think it was very dodgy (pause) (interruption) er (laughter)

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(interruption) I you just don't know do you (pause) like he was such I feel sorry for him because (pause) just these stars that

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Mentally screwed (interruption) up like.

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(interruption) Yeah

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Um

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(interruption) Who knows

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(interruption) If he did do it he probably didn't do it (pause) intentionally

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Or like (interruption) but even he might even

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(interruption) (laughter)

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(interruption) (laughter)

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(laughter)

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Like you know what I mean (interruption) like

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(interruption) Oh yeah by mistake

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(laughter) No [laughter ends] like intentionally like (pause) either he actually thought he was just being nice or (pause) maybe like (pause) it's just (pause) that's just the way the stars turn they turn weird.

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Yeah

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But when he was young he was probably not never a weirdo or (interruption) anything

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(interruption) Yeah

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You just don't know because so much (pause) there's so many lies (pause) you just don't know what (pause) (interruption) goes on.

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(interruption) Yeah

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Um (pause) it's like Heath Ledger as well.

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Yeah

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That's awful

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I watched a movie with him the other day and I just thought it was weird that he's (pause) dead (pause) (interruption) strange.

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(interruption) What happened to him again? (pause) [2 sec]

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He -- it was that weird thing like. He to- (interruption) they think he topped

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(interruption) He

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Himself in his hotel room or something.

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(interruption) He overdosed (pause) Yeah.

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(interruption) Something like that

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Oh

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But they don't know if he did it on purpose (interruption) or not.

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(interruption) Oh yeah

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(interruption) Yeah

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Em (pause) would you say that you're mostly clean or messy people?

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I think I've got a bit of OCD (pause) em because (pause) I'm (pause) I love tidying like I actually really enjoy tidying and cleaning (pause) em (pause) and I always like to be I'm quite organised and I always know I never lose any of my stuff, and I always know exactly where (pause) everything is and I'm quite sort of (pause) like that.

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I'm slightly like (pause) I go through phases of either I just let it build up and be messy messy messy and then I'll blitz it (pause) and then it will gradually get messy messy messy and then I'll blitz it again and that's (pause) just (interruption) how I do it.

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(interruption) Yeah whereas I like -- I -- you like -- for ex- (pause) like some people are like 'ah God I've got to tidy my room', actually but I was like that the other day (pause) but normally it's like people leave their bedroom to get really -- really messy, whereas I (pause) am the sort of person that as I go along (interruption) I'll like (pause) (interruption) tidy it.

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(interruption) Yeah (pause) (interruption) Like t- ten minutes before you go to bed

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(interruption) Yeah

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(interruption) You always put things away

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Yeah

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Whereas I have to spend a weekend gutting my room. (laughter)

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Is your house quite (pause) messy then, or?

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It's really clean and tidy at the minute 'cause (NAME) just sorted the whole kitchen out and it looks amazing (pause) em

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It's all r- 'cause we went from a small flat which always looked so messy (pause) our new flat's really big so the mess is sort of like

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Spread (interruption) out

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(interruption) Spread out so you don't see it as much

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But also (pause) yeah it depends 'cause if we go on a night out (pause) then the flat for (interruption) the weekend will be just be a complete tip (interruption) just junk food and

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(interruption) God (pause) (interruption) with food and bottles and

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Bottles and glasses and then we'll clean it and then it will be (pause) tidy for awhile and then we'll go on another night out and it will get back to the same state.

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Um

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But we use the dishwasher if we've been on a night out.

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Yeah (laughter)

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Just to help us along

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(laughter) Em what's your id- er dream job? (pause) [4 sec]

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(sigh) (pause) um m- mine (pause) would be

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It could be anything

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Oh (interruption) Ok

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(interruption) If it's not realistic (pause) then to be one of The Saturdays

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Yeah to be one of The Saturdays (pause) (interruption) definitely.

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(interruption) Em (pause) it would be amazing

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Yeah

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But like realistically like (pause) I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] like just em (pause) I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] (interruption) (unclear) yeah

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(interruption) I'm not really bothered about (pause) I'm not a career I've never ever been a career person (pause) and I don't have my heart set on having a like career because I'm all from (pause) like all through school I was just like 'I just want like a family and I want loads of kids' and I'm -- I'm more that sort of person than (pause) em a career person

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Yeah

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Which is very strange to some people (pause) but I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] I've just always I just want lots of kids and (pause) (interruption) yeah

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(interruption) Marry someone rich.

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Y- well yeah, (interruption) that'd be good

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(interruption) (laughter)

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Do you prefer The Saturdays to Girls Aloud then?

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Well it's a- th- Girls Aloud are the- the- they (pause) (interruption) were amazing

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(interruption) They're past it

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And they've -- they've past it they've grown up and The Saturdays are -- are kind of taking over now.

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Yeah, I totally agree, and The Saturdays are so much more fit.

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(interruption) Yeah

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(interruption) Like so much fitter than Girls Aloud

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Yeah

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They're just unreal

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What do you think of Cheryl Cole?

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(sigh) I go through phases, I love her (pause) and then I'm just like I'm so sick of your face, it's everywhere like (pause) it's and (pause) I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] on bus stops,

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Yeah

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On busses, on (interruption) TV, and magazines

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(interruption) I mean

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And you're just like

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I do like her and she's gorgeous and (pause) but I just can't help but thinking (pause) like you're a chav.

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(laughter)

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She -- she is a lot of people like have said who are from Newcastle who knew her previously like not like we know them but people have said (pause) like she's just from a an (interruption) council estate in Byker and she's (interruption) like proper

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(interruption) She's (interruption) she is just a chav and like she's just I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] (pause) she's obviously n- nice and stuff but (pause) you always hear about how she's like aff- like she has fights and she's really feisty and it's like

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That what she used to be like when she (pause) punched the (pause) toilet attendant (interruption) and stuff that's the real (interruption) Cheryl Cole

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(interruption) Yeah (interruption) yeah yeah

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It really is (pause) like when she was young she was (pause) had fights and stuff and bolshie (interruption) and

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(interruption) yeah

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I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] I think like with her fame she's had to sort of hide that (pause) but

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(interruption) Yeah

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(interruption) I don't think this is the real her.

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Do believe all that about Gamu then (pause) that she's a racist? (laughter)

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I -- I (interruption) thought that was ridiculous

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(interruption) Oh no I thought that was ridiculous.

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I generally believe that's (interruption) (laughter)

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(interruption) It's -- it's but it really annoys me

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(laughter) She said that in her interview (pause) that it's just ridiculous [laughter ends]

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It is just ridiculous it's just (pause) yeah it really annoys me when people (pause) are like ugh (pause) (interruption) 'it's y- you're racist'

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(interruption) Yeah

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It -- it's like that is the most an- it's j- just I can't even (pause) talk about it -- it angers me so much

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It it's it -- it just (gasp) (pause) ri- (interruption) ridiculous

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(interruption) Ridiculous she you can't even (pause) comment or talk about (interruption) it

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(interruption) No

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Because it just is ridiculous (pause) it's just so far from the truth.

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'Will i am' was sat right (laughter) next to her (pause) so [laughter ends]

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Yeah, exactly!

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That's so (laughter) true [laughter ends]

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What age do you want to [realized as 'wanna'] marry (pause) by?

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I think about twenty six but (pause) I think with my track record it's going to [realized as 'gonna'] be more like thirty-six, forty-six (pause) (laughter) but twenty six would be good, or twenty seven (pause) that kind of age.

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Em I (pause) would ideally like to meet my husband (pause) in the next month (pause) em and get married, no I li- I just (pause) I want to [realized as 'wanna'] get married young and have kids and

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Twenty-six is not (pause) that twenty-six in five years.

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Yeah

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(interruption) Oh God (laughter)

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(interruption) I definitely like the th- I want to [realized as 'wanna'] be a -- a I'd love to be married at like twenty-six (pause) child by (pause) twenty-seven (pause) and then yeah (pause) definitely (pause) eh

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Do you know how many kids you want?

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Four (pause) I've always said it, I want four kids

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I quite like 'cause in my family we've got boy girl boy girl so our parents where really lucky and I would love that, or (pause) I don't know if I could handle four but I or maybe just (pause) two like I think it's got to be an even number.

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Yeah well I'm (interruption) from

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(interruption) I don't know why

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I've got three brothers so there was four of us em [informant yawns] (pause) and I just want a big family like my family.

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Um

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I'm the same I think (pause) (interruption) quite a few

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(interruption) Yeah

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But I'm just (pause) not the type of person that could handle maybe two kids, or three, but four (pause) (laughter) good God like under the age of ten (pause) what's that like oh God I don't think I could do it. (laughter)

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Do you want pets?

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I want a pack of dogs

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(interruption) Yeah I

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(interruption) Like a literal (pause) thirty (pause) of every (pause) breed I love absolutely love them.

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I want em (pause) dogs (pause) and cats (pause) and horses

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Can you ride?

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Yeah I've -- I've had three horses and I used to ride all the time when I was younger (pause) em and then it kind of got (pause) because I had loads of like started getting loads of work at school and stuff I didn't really have time (pause) but I wish I still had horses now (pause) [4 sec]

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Mm (pause) em do you have any particularly scary experiences? (pause) [3 sec]

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(laughter) (pause) I don't (interruption) know

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(interruption) I don't think I have

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Em um actually I've (pause) um (pause) I once thought I levitated which was (laughter) extremely scary, I'm not joking [laughter ends]

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(laughter) (gasp) oh my God (unclear) [possible reading: really]

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I was in a caravan and I was lying on a mattress asleep (pause) and I started screaming and my mate was like 'what the hell's wrong?' like 'what is wrong with you?' and I was like 'I've just levitated!' (pause) and I've never had the feeling again, but then I had it a few months ago and it's (pause) I -- I was hung-over both times, and I think (pause) some sort of muscle spasm (pause) which makes me feel like when I'm lying in bed and it's -- it's only ever happened twice in my life but (pause) I'm not stupid enough to think I actually levitated.

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(laughter)

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(laughter)

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It was scary (laughter)

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I (pause) have just remembered my scariest experience from Thailand.

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Oh yeah

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But I can't talk about it (laughter) but it was just a scary experience [laughter ends]

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What about embarrassing moments?

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Oh God my whole life (pause) (laughter) literally [laughter ends] e- every time I drink (laughter) (pause) it's embarrassing [laughter ends] (pause) (laughter)

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Em (pause) I can't (pause) there's (pause) um (pause) I can't think of any that stand out

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That's so good that you can't think of any I couldn't start (pause) with mine like.

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But there must be (pause) I just can't I've got a really bad memory (laughter) so I can't remember [laughter ends]

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I'm trying (interruption) to think um (pause) I'm trying to think of one

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(interruption) Probably drunken

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Yeah they're mine are all sort of drunken like I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] just sort of (pause) falling over and (pause) saying stupid things and you know what I mean those sorts of things nothing (pause) (sigh) nothing huge that's life changing or anything.

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(sigh) If you had one superpower, what would it be? (pause) [3 sec]

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I think it would have to maybe be invisibility (pause) or flying (pause) oh maybe flying.

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Em (pause) [4 sec] oh (pause) I don't know (pause) what are the different powers you could have?

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Flexibility (pause) astrovision (pause) walking through walls, whatever that one would be.

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I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] (pause) I don't have a desire to have (laughter) any of them [laughter ends]

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Have you never wanted to fly?

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Well yeah but (pause) it would be a bit weird

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(laughter)

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If no-one else was flying. (laughter)

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(laughter) Just you [laughter ends] (pause) [3 sec]

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Never thought of it that way (laughter)

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(laughter) I haven't [laughter ends]

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Or read minds?

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No I'd hate that (pause) that would be awful

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Imagine you were talking to someone and they were like I just don't (interruption) like you (laughter) and you were just like [laughter ends]

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(interruption) Yeah (pause) no sometimes it's best not to know. (laughter)

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Em who's been the most influential person to you? (pause) [3 sec]

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(tut) Em (pause) well (pause) my parents and my fam- like my -- my three brothers (pause) like they're obviously really influential but also like (pause) on a scale of like relationships my (pause) boyfriend slash ex boyfriend 'cause it's complicated, he's (pause) taught me a lot about (pause) I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] I just think he's taught me a lot (pause) about (pause) yeah (pause) just life in general.

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I honestly think I'm going to [realized as 'gonna'] have to say the same, my ex boyfriend.

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Yeah

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Even bef- ahead of my parents and my family (pause) 'cause yeah I just taught

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They just teach you like 'cause (pause) my relationship before that (pause) I was literally so spoilt and got away with everything and got showered with presents and things like that and then going out with (pause) this guy he kind of like he taught me that I like life's not like that and you can't get everything and (pause) that I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] it's it

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Yeah I think mine well mines in a slightly different way like (pause) he's taught me (pause) what you want from life I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] when you broke when you break up with them like you realise actually what you want

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Yeah

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Kind of thing, but (pause) and I think it's just it was just the age that the boyfriends came in I think it's more to do with it.

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Yeah

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That that's why they're influent- (interruption) influential

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(interruption) Yeah

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Do you think you'd get back with him?

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My boy (interruption) friend? Absolutely not (interruption) we went out

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(interruption) Um (pause) (interruption) really!

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For like three years and lived together and had a dog (laughter) together [laughter ends] so it was just ridiculous (pause) em (pause) it did not end well (pause) at all (pause) so

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That's so sad

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It is such a shame.

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But were on were on sort of civilly terms now (pause) eventually, like a year later but (pause) (sigh) yeah (pause) I definitely wouldn't go back there. (interruption) (laughter)

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(interruption) (laughter) (pause) Em if you suddenly (laughter) this is a really weird question [laughter ends] um find yourself turned into a man how would you spend your day?

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(interruption) (laughter)

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(interruption) (laughter) Em (pause) [3 sec]

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Ooo! (pause) I would go out and probably (pause) with the lads and have like

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Yeah because I'm always really jealous like when guys are like (pause) 'ah lets all go (interruption) to the pub'

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(interruption) 'Go for beers' (laughter)

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And 'let's go for beers' and like girls just don't do that and I'd -- I'd have like a proper guys day and night and just

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(interruption) Yeah

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(interruption) Like (pause) yeah (pause) do something like that

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'Cause girls don't you know when they like (pause) they go for drinks go on a lads night out go to the strippers, go to the casino

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(laughter) Yeah [laughter ends]

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Like girls don't do you just sort of go out and go home

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Yeah

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Like that's it (pause) (sigh) it's not really a girly.

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Em if your life was turned into a movie which actor would you play? (pause) [4 sec] or would (interruption) play you sorry

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(interruption) Would play

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Oh em

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This was a question on This Morning this morning and it was -- it were Jason Donavon and I was actually thinking about it (pause) em (pause) [3 sec] (tut) oh God.

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I don't know, don't have a clue.

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I would quite like Keira Knightley to play me, but we've got nothing in common (laughter)

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Ah I hate Keira Knightly (pause) em oh I know Sienna Miller

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Oh (pause) good that is a good answer (pause) I'm jealous of your (laughter) answer [laughter ends] yeah (laughter) I 'm going to [realized as 'gonna'] say (interruption) Sienna Miller [laughter ends]

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(interruption) (laughter)

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Why do you hate Keira Knightly?

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I don't hate her but (pause) just like (pause) people like Keira Knightly (pause) Alexa Chung and Kate Moss, I just (pause) I don't (pause) like them (pause) I don't I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] I just (pause) it's just the way people rave on about them, and I just (pause) don't (interruption) have that

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(interruption) Yeah

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Yeah

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Mm (pause) em (pause) if a waiter and a customer was being rude would you spit in their food?

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I wouldn't (pause) no

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No I wouldn't

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I worked in a restaurant for a while and it would horrify me (interruption) if I saw anyone do that

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(interruption) But like, who does that would you (interruption) actually just (pause) sp- like

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(interruption) Oh it's disgusting

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It's just disgusting, I could never do that

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I would just probably be a bit (pause) annoy- like

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I'd just be arsy to them

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Yeah like 'do you want some pepper?'

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(interruption) Yeah (laughter)

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(interruption) I wouldn't be like

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(laughter) Oh God that will teach them [laughter ends]

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(laughter) Like you know what I mean like, have an arsy term but (pause) not like. (interruption) spit [laughter ends]

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(interruption) (laughter) Do you want some pepper? [laughter ends]

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(laughter) But like (pause) you know (pause) just asking them not in a very nice way but I wouldn't (pause) do anything (interruption) to (pause) physically (pause) harm them. [laughter ends]

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(interruption) (laughter)

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(interruption) (laughter)

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(laughter) That is so funny [laughter ends] imagine what some people will say, some people would be like (pause) 'yeah I'd spit in their food' and (laughter) you're like 'oh yeah I'd think I'd just ask them if they wanted some pepper in a nasty way' [laughter ends] (pause) oh

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Em if you could meet one living celebrity who would it be? (pause) Or non living? (pause) [4 sec]

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Em

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Does it (pause) have to be celebrity? (interruption) Can it be like a famous person?

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(interruption) Anyone (pause) [2 sec] yeah (pause) [6 sec]

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Hm (pause) [2 sec] I can't think of anyone that stands out

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mine's really sad

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Who?

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It would be (pause) Sir Alan (laughter) Sugar. [laughter ends]

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You

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(laughter)

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(laughter) It'd be really sad.

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Why?

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I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] I would have su- (pause) ah I don't know [realized as 'dunno']

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mine (interruption) oh I'd know who mine would be Simon Cowell

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(interruption) I just absolutely love him

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Oh God (pause) yeah! (laughter)

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I love him and I fancy him and I agree with everything he says

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(interruption) You're coming out with some good answers today

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(interruption) And I think he's really clever (pause) I think (pause) I just I think I'd really have a good, if we went on a night out

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Yeah

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I think we'd have a good time together as well.

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I'm going to [realized as 'gonna'] have to change my answer to Simon Cowell.

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Stop copying my answers (laughter)

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(laughter) I'm not thinking about these hard enough [laughter ends]

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(laughter)

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Do you watch the apprentice?

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(interruption) Em

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(interruption) I love the Apprentice.

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Yeah you're obsessed with it I (pause) watch it but (pause) I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it.

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Do you think you could do anything like that?

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I would love to do something like that (pause) (interruption) but

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(interruption) It's completely up (NAME)'s street whereas it's so (pause) not me

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But you just need like (pause) I always say to my dad when I graduate I want to be able to like apply for it and say 'I don't need any (laughter) experience [laughter ends] ', but (pause) you can't do that, so it's like another I like when I'm older I'd love to apply for it if I had the chance (pause) but

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Ah wow!

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I don't think I would get on (pause) at all (pause) but (pause) you can (pause) try can't you

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They let some idiots on though

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They really do (pause) like (pause) was it there's a club promoter that we know in town who (pause) got through to like the final stages (pause) and (pause) he's an ac- like he's a moron (pause) so

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(laughter) (pause) Em (pause) what do you find attractive in the opposite sex?

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(tut) I like an arrogance about them, I don't necessarily go for looks, there's just I can't pinpoint it but when I see a boy, I either fancy them or don't and it's got nothing to do with their looks and it's I think it's like (pause) their attitude and (interruption) kind of (pause) cocky and arrogant (interruption) but not in a nasty way

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(interruption) It' a persona (pause) (interruption) yeah

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Just sort of like a confidence that's (pause) I don't know, [realized as 'dunno'] yeah.

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Yeah I have the same sort of thing

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Yeah

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Although em like well I was going to [realized as 'gonna'] say I am I also have to be physically attracted to them but I really don't 'cause a lot of people who I (pause) (interruption) fancy I do I'm not (interruption) physically attracted to or

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(interruption) You see I would always (pause) (interruption) yeah 'cause I would think like oh I'd always go for looks but I don't because (pause) I -- I like I can't control my mind and I (interruption) either

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(interruption) Yeah

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Fancy them or I don't and (pause) (interruption) mm but maybe it goes hand in hand

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(interruption) I know

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Like I fancy them and they're (pause) like I'd never (pause) probably fancy a really (laughter) ugly person [laughter ends] do you [realized as 'd'ya'] know what I mean?

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Yeah but then I fancy a really ugly person

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He's not really ugly

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Come on

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No but (NAME), I'm -- you wouldn't fancy like (pause) a (pause) [3 sec] I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] (laughter) but

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I'm pretty sure he's (pause) he's not good looking, but

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Yeah

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But it doesn't bother me (interruption) at all that he's not.

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(interruption) It's just something about them

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Yeah

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Mm (pause) do you think you've ever been in -- in true love then?

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Em (pause) my I first boyfriend I went out with f- for five years (pause) and (pause) it was my first love and like it was amazing, and we ended really fine and it's like I look back in fond memories, and then m- my last boyfriend like I loved him but I don't think I it's about true love more or less different types of love and throughout your stages of life you go through so I've got I've had my first love and that was amazing and then I'm sure I'll love people in between and then when I meet my husband I think that is a true love that will on a different scale from any of those other loves, so I think there's different loves.

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Yeah I agree with you I think at the time I thought I was in true love [informant phone begins to ring] with my boyfriend

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Yeah (pause) definitely

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And then looking back [informants phone rings again]

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Is that me? [Referring to phone]

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Oh -- er looking back you I wasn't at all (interruption) really

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(interruption) Yeah

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That's such a good way of looking at it.

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Yeah

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But like you can you need to have fun with them

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Yeah (pause) so

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Em (pause) if you were stranded on a deserted island for a year and could only take three objects what would they be? (pause) [5 sec]

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A laptop (interruption) (laughter)

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(interruption) Yeah this is my phone that rung [Referring to phone]

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A phone, a laptop, and chocolate (pause) [2 sec]

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Um (pause) [3 sec] I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] it would probably be the same.

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Yeah

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Um (pause) have you em ever been to any gigs? (pause) (tut) like Reading (pause) Leeds.

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Oh yeah I went to em (pause) just this s- summer I went to SW4 which was it's like a dance (pause) em two day like a weekend thing, but I only went for ad ay (pause) festival in London (pause) and it was really good (pause) had the best time

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I went to Bestival last year for (pause) five days, which was absolutely unreal (pause) like so good (pause) em (pause) but (pause) no I haven't really been to much more

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(NAME) and (NAME) are going to Glastonbury

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Are they?

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Yeah (pause) I really want to [realized as 'wanna'] go.

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Yeah, Glastonbury always sounds good.

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But you've got to [realized as 'gotta'] be so I'd love to go to a festival but you've got to [realized as 'gotta'] be so (pause) it's really hard rounding all your friends up

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(interruption) Yeah

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(interruption) And been so in advance because (pause) it's hard to be that (interruption) organised

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(interruption) Yeah

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And you have to -- to get tickets you've got to [realized as 'gotta'] be organised.

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Who played at Bestival?

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(tut) Er well I -- I went the very last minute 'cause I managed to get a free ticket so I was like I might as well just go (pause) em but I personally went for Lilly Allen, (laughter) and (pause) Mika (laughter) em but all my friends went (pause) for like MGMT were there em (pause) and (pause) there was a to- there was tonnes of people I can't even think of them, but the line up this year was so much better but we couldn't go this year, so.

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Hm (pause) do you ever go to em like concerts (pause) or comedy gigs?

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We don't really do we?

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No not really

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We're not very adventurous people.

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(laughter) No

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Like in that (pause) type of thing we always say we want to [realized as 'wanna'] to do these things but we never really (interruption) do them.

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(interruption) Yeah (pause) we always say we want to [realized as 'wanna'] do things but we never do them.

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We go like Mr Lynches and As You Like It for the live bands

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(interruption) Yeah

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(interruption) But they're not like anyone, they're just sort of a good live band but they're always (pause) really good fun.

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Yeah (pause) [3 sec]

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Em (pause) uh

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Do you ever go on road trips round the UK?

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No (laughter)

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(laughter) We sound so boring, [laughter ends] we always talk about doing it like 'let's go Alton Towers', 'let's go to Leeds', like a lot of our friends live across the country (pause) em (pause) (interruption) we never go and see them

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(interruption) It it's -- it's always an issue of money (pause) or

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How many (interruption) people can go and

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(interruption) How many people are going to [realized as 'gonna'] Come, and it just never it just always (pause) fails

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Em have you ever had an imaginary (laughter) friend [laughter ends] as a child?

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I never had one I never understood them (interruption) when people had imaginary friends

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(interruption) I (pause) n- (pause) I've -- I've never had one but my niece (pause) it's not an imaginary friend but she 'cause she's three (pause) she em (pause) talks about a Goblob or something, and she's like look at Goblob, and like points to the ceiling, and always talks about this (pause) weird thing (pause) so.

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(laughter)

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That's bizarre

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I know

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I never understand that (laughter) kind of thing [laughter ends]

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Goblob (laughter)

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Yeah

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Em would you ever want to be hypnotised? (pause) [3 sec]

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I would quite like to (pause) I see these adverts for things like 'cause I bite my nails really badly and I see hypnotising for like how to stop biting your nails I'd love it for that but I wouldn't like it if someone was like (pause) I think it'd be weird if like took you know when they take you into another (pause) like life I'd -- I'd don't know [realized as 'dunno'] 'cause I think it could really sort of scar you

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Yeah

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If you come across something that (pause) I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] it'd be weird you couldn't sort of take it back once you've done it, (interruption) but

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(interruption) Yes [realized as 'yeah']

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Do you think it would make you want, look for things more?

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Yeah (pause) in a way I get what you mean (pause) yes [realized as 'yeah'] (pause) [4 sec] (interruption) it wouldn't be good.

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(interruption) Em (pause) would you say you're closest to your mum or your dad?

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Em (pause) I'm closest to my mum (pause) em (pause) yeah (pause) my mum.

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I'm -- I'm (unclear) [possible reading: not like] you, my parents are separated so it's (pause) they're not comparable they're totally sort of different people now, I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] (pause) it's like my dad's sort of a dad and my mum's sort of like a friend, I don't know [realized as 'dunno'] it's weird, so it's totally different relationships.

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Do you have any siblings?

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I have two brothers and a sister and then like half brothers and half sisters only I'm only -- only in contact with two of them but the other ones are (pause) like I don't know they're like thirty-five or something, forty (pause) so I don't really (pause) contact them very much.

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And I have three brothers

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Do you get on really well with them?

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Yeah, I'm the youngest and they're (pause) all (pause) like (pause) um old like (interruption) thirty

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(interruption) (laughter)

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Old yeah

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(laughter) Old [laughter ends]

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No compared to me like I'm like so there was a huge gap in between (pause) me and them (pause) so they're all like friends (pause) and then they kind of I get on well with them 'cause they like look after me and stuff

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Are they protective?

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Yeah they're quite protective, but not in a nasty way like they just (pause) they'd always be there for me sort of thing

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Mm (pause) ok thank you

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Thanks