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Interviews

Below, you will find all my profile interviews, separated by subject matter. All interviews are for The Independent unless marked otherwise.

Comedy

Rose Matafeo on Starstruck, body image and babies: ‘I’ve got a spreadsheet of celebrities who don’t have kids’ (The Saturday Interview, August 2023)



Ellie White on The Windsors: ‘Someone told me Fergie watched and I felt really guilty’ (May 2023)



Rachel Bloom: ‘AI will be a good writer when it has the pain and trauma of hating itself’ (The Saturday Interview, May 2023)



Janey Godley: How Jimmy Carr convinced me to get back on stage after my cancer diagnosis (March 2023)



‘Our youth clubs are being converted into food banks’: Mo Gilligan on the cost of living crisis, gentrification and The Brits (February 2023)



‘Love Island could survive, not thrive without my voiceover’: Iain Stirling on the winter edition, his sitcom Buffering and the ‘innately funny’ world of kids’ TV (January 2023)



‘The Netflixisation of the royal family is so interesting to watch’: Emma Sidi on playing Emily Maitlis in Prince Andrew: The Musical (December 2022)



Liz Kingsman: ‘At first, I got really hung up on people misinterpreting One Woman Show’ (December 2022)



Jordan Gray: ‘A handful of death threats is a lot for a week. Spread ‘em out!’ (November 2022)



Leo Reich: ‘It’s f***ed, obviously, how many successful comedians are Cambridge grads’ (October 2022)



Ladhood’s Liam Williams: ‘Almost as soon as I got to university, I felt my accent changing’ (September 2022)



James Acaster: ‘All my stand-up was in this exaggerated persona – I’m more myself now’ (The Saturday Interview, August 2022)



Simon Brodkin: ‘I wasn’t ready to be completely open’ (August 2022)



Lara Ricote: ‘I won the Funny Women award on a terrible day – I had gotten my hearing aids stuck in my ear’ (August 2022)



Jayde Adams: ‘Women are smashing it, babes. Men are having to work a bit harder’ (August 2022)



Matt Rogers: ‘A lot of people have an antiquated, whitewashed image of what a gay person is’ (June 2022)



Nish Kumar: ‘My Rishi Sunak joke doesn’t work any more because everyone f***ing hates him’ (April 2022)



Catherine Cohen: ‘My last show was about my twenties. What does the future hold now I’m a wretched hag?’ (February 2022)



Catherine Bohart: ‘It’s easier to slag off Nish Kumar than be a good prime minister’ (February 2022)



Sophie Willan: ‘Most people have had some form of mental health issues in their families’ (September 2021)



Elsa Majimbo: ‘If anything can be brilliant, it should be brilliant’ (Viral Laughter, March 2021)



Abi Clarke: ‘It feels like my whole career is in this phone’ (Viral Laughter, March 2021)



Alistair Green: ‘I’m trying to create scenes that are a little bit of England’ (Viral Laughter, March 2021)



Munya Chawawa: ‘Saying abracadabra was the equivalent of blurting out the C-word in my house’ (Viral Laughter, February 2021)



Will Hislop: ‘Twitter has that weird thing of being both a first draft but quite permanent’ (Viral Laughter, January 2021)



Sara Pascoe: ‘Virtual stand-up gigs left me feeling mentally ill’ (October 2020)

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