Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum

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But she suffered terribly from nerves. “It felt like every time you walked on stage you were walking off a cliff. I just used to shake. I had to bring it into my persona.” The series centres on three women: Toni, played by Hull-native Leah Brotherhead (Bridgerton, White Gold), Rana, played by Taj Atwal (Line of Duty, Truth Seekers) and Paula, played by Sinead Matthews (The Crown, The Power) and looks at their dishevelled, messy and joyful lives. Lucy:We were very cut off where we were and we were getting excited about going to garden centres. It’d take us eight hours round trip to get to London and although it was idyllic, we were thinking where we want to be potentially for the next 15 to 20 years. Leeds has everything; I don't think you can outgrow it. I was starting to wear Crocs and we had no sex life. Damion's like an amazing Hollywood actor because he's just being himself. He thought the house was a bit big, posh and pompous, and it comes across in the way he reaches across for a salt and vinegar crisp.

Lucy Beaumont and her husband, Jon Richardson, have a surprisingly happening life as they make uncomfortable jokes about family and each other. In a twist on the comedian-travelling-with-a-parent genre, Jon Richardson: Take My Mother-In-Law follows the stand-up and playwright Gill Adams as they travel around Spain, experiencing the local culture as she contemplates uprooting her life from England. He was an older gent that lived with his elderly lover and he said ‘when she dies you can have her room’.Beaumont is known for her observational comedy about her home city of Hull including the local dialect and food such as patties and chip spice. [9] Her on-stage persona delivers deadpan anecdotes and has been described as "ditzily naïve". [16] When you Google Lucy Beaumont's name, the first search prompt that reveals itself is: 'Are Jon and Lucy really married?'. The second is: 'Is Lucy Beaumont's mum her real mum?'. I just spoil her rotten. Everywhere we go I buy her a teddy. I mean, literally, she could suffocate under them.”

The book opens with a chapter entitled “My life as a normal, single human being before everything changed”, which has some childhood memories (which actually continue throughout the book), involving gazebos and other memorable moments. The next goes on to her meeting and getting together with Jon, who adds “interruptions” through the book. Jon is a vegan, and she becomes one apart from during pregnancy, but both admit to lapses which include dead cows and her mother’s cooking when she arrives on mercy missions. She comes up with ten reasons why she wants a baby - which includes having a white carpet like in the adverts. Experienced baby carers will know that she is being foolishly optimistic at this point. She actually writes “The more I write, the more it’s dawning on me I’m not picturing a real baby, I’m picturing a calendar”. The challenges of pregnancy and antenatal groups are described with humour and brutal honesty, especially with her husband in attendance. She remembers stories of her own birth while her mother was on holiday, some points of which she sends to her mother some time later to clarify points of confusion - just to make sure that family legends are actually true. The actual birth story spares no details, including Jon’s strange urge to buy a four man tent. The unexplained post natal sadness (thankfully fairly brief) and the night feed experience is detailed, as well as the joys of baby massage (she is disappointed that the mums don’t get massaged). Soon Elsie the baby becomes the toddler, the bright child and all with a determination to sabotage sleep.

I was paralysed doing stunts on Harry Potter. It was still the best job in the world

Jon: I can. But can Britain or Hollywood? Jed Mercurio [the Line Of Duty writer, who appears in the new series]gets it. My performance as a balding slightly podgy middle-aged failing comic is so believable that people forget I’m actually an athlete in his prime. It looked lovely. It was all painted a misty grey colour. It’s only a two-bedroom terraced house but it felt quite spacious. My mum has put a big bust of Elvis in the living room and made a jungle theme with plants and monkeys hanging everywhere so it doesn’t look as spacious anymore.

I’ll never tire of motherhood books that tell it like it is and I take a very dim view of those parenting manuals that assure you that baby should be running to your routine, will go down for a nap when you say, and go to bed when you say – especially when my youngest didn’t go to sleep unless he was being held FOR THREE YEARS. Her foray into comedy saw the stand-up enjoy a sharp rise in the British circuit, making it to the finals of So You Think You're Funny in 2011, and winning the BBC Radio New Comedy Award in 2012. My life is like a sit-com, that's why we ended up filming a sit-com," she smiles. "I sort of draw people into my world. Being a 40-year-old woman is weird, and I talk about my childhood, and how I got into comedy. So, hopefully, it's just quite silly."Beaumont is extremely relatable and I felt like I was chatting with a much loved friend. A friend who completely understands the Jekyll and Hyde that is motherhood. Someone I can be honest and open with about how tough this parenting gig is. I don’t blame her for wanting to look after a pet bull when she saw an advert on Facebook during her pregnancy and wanted to bring him home to cuddle and have parties with his bull friends. I would be exactly the same. Hormones, it’s always the hormones that mess with your emotions. Toni is a big-hearted tornado of chaos. She’s a self-described actress with no acting jobs (she can currently be found “auditioning” to hand out cheese samples in a supermarket car park). Lucy’s voice is warm and relatable, and I couldn’t help hearing it in her voice as I read, and the corrections and clarifications from Jon Richardson set the tone early on. They seem like a nice couple when they’re on TV things, and that comes across here too. She said: “I remember this long, tree-lined road and I could see something white that went into it. When she toured her 2014 show, interviewees constantly asked ‘Are women as funny as men?’ Beaumont says. “It got in my head. I had terrible self-doubt. It really affected me.” She changed how she presented herself. “I used to take my make-up off before I went on stage and put on a hoodie. If I didn’t, I was getting things shouted at me like ‘Get your tits out’. It just made me more and more nervous.”

TV Comics Launch Charity Gala in Aid of Local Children". Hull Echo. 9 May 2019 . Retrieved 29 December 2019. After university, she briefly worked as a teaching assistant. When one of her first acting jobs after university fell through, Beaumont took on a job as a cleaner at the university to make a living, leading her to joke later that she was probably the only person with both a BA and an NVQ from the University of Hull. [9] [3] Career [ edit ] I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes memoir-style books, light-hearted reads about parenting young children, and anyone who is a fan of Meet the Richardsons.

a b c d e f g Grieveson-Smith, Jess (12 April 2022). "Hullraisers' Lucy Beaumont from surprising stage fright to childbirth trauma". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. Huddersfield, England: Reach plc . Retrieved 13 April 2022. We argue about that but then we argue about everything. We even argue about lettuces,” she says. “He’s doing this environmental podcast where he’s talking about not wasting stuff. She was looking really forward to it and we drove for 40 minutes to get there. And then we go in and I see this huge doll’s campervan. I wanted the birth to be a bit ethereal at home. I thought my baby would sort of float out to jazz music. I was hoping to go for a run afterwards,” she jokes.