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Alex Jones is a ray of sunshine in an elegant yellow suit

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- Ah, Paul Hollywood. You know who was really really fun, Danny DeVito It came to a very bad end, one exploded in it's tube. (laughs) What have we got here now then? That green tea is actually the work of the devil. Earl Grey, not into that. It's like drinking perfume isn't it? Who wants Earl Grey? I think people just try and be posh and say I'd like a cup of Earl Grey but really they don't want it do they? That looks just up my street, just normal, give that a bit of a stir. Now see this, love it 'cause it's sparkly but being Welsh, I can't, I can't drink out of that, I can't. Because that would upset the entire Welsh nation. So I would go for that and what's good about this one is that it's massive. So for me, if you're gonna have a mug of tea, if you're gonna bother, bother. Builder's basically, tiny bit of milk, nothing worse than a milky cup of tea, makes me actually physically sick. Oh here we go! Still a bit weak but, it's all right. Bit weak. Bit weak but it's all right, it's all right. And in terms of biscuits, I'm not sure a Jaffa Cake really qualifies because essentially it's a cake isn't it? Jaffa, Cake. I had really bad dreams (laughs) about these when I was little. They would turn into actual people and chase me so Jammie Dodgers are off the menu for me. Although I'm sure they're very delicious and now that I've handled it I'll probably have to eat it. I would, see, very boring, I'd go for a Rich Tea with a cup of tea. Because, they are quite low calorie which means you can eat most of the packet and it's fine. I mean it's basically air. Plus, they're quite hardcore, so you can dunk them and they don't fall in. If there wasn't a choice, I'd eat whatever was there, obviously, yeah. Cheers, nice. (water boiling) Ah, Paul Hollywood. (laughs) (gasps) Ohh! That's quite difficult isn't it? Claudia Winkleman, she's got a lovely house, she could do it. Mel Giedroyc 'cause she's super fun and it think even if it was terrible, it would be funny terrible. We used to have two hamsters, it came to a very bad end, one exploded in its tube. So since then we haven't had any more pets but we might get a dog at some point. Rylan, I think dogs would react well to him. And if it was a dreary day they could see him in the park with his lovely white teeth. Oooh, now I can never say her name but Olivia Palermo? You know, her. She looks amazing. Aah, ooh, that's a difficult one. I mean there's so many people that look amazing, Kate Beckinsale, now she, yeah, who doesn't want to look like that? Paul O'Grady. He's just lovely isn't he? And he makes soap. Oh, um, okay. Think come on, come on, come on, come on, you know who was really really fun? Danny DeVito and he would make you look super tall. (water boiling) See, the thing with me, I've met lots and lots of different people who I love. And when people ask, "Who's your dream dinner party guests?" they expect me to say, you know maybe like Dolly Parton 'cause I love her. I also like Celia Imrie which is a bit weird isn't it? But I love Celia Imrie, she's an actress, lovely. But d'you know what, in my heart of hearts, if I was having a dinner party, I would just want my best friends there, especially if I was cooking I'd need people to be very forgiving so I would always always go for just a really good group of friends and family. That's me all over, don't wanna go out, just wanna mix with my friends. (chuckles) Bit weird like that. My baby, I mean all night, every 20 to 30 minutes. I'd like to say something more profound but no, that genuinely is the answer at the minute. Six month old baby, that'll do it. Ooh, my biggest extravagance would be, probably coats. I can't go past a shop and not find a jacket that I quite like and the thing is with jackets and coats, especially winter coats, they're very bulky to store, very very bulky. So I end up piling them all onto the kinda the post at the bottom of the stairs, which drives my husband mental. So I think, yeah jackets and coats probably, nothing underneath. No, that's a joke. But I do like a jacket or a coat. (laughs) See this is the thing with interior design, my taste changes a lot so with that in mind, I bought a very plain sofa thinking that that would be the sensible thing. It's kind of like a stone color, not offensive at all but it's so inoffensive it's really boring so now I wish I would have gone for the velvet I was thinking of in the first place. So I think, you know, your home should be whatever you want it to be and I think that playing it safe is probably the wrong thing. That's what I've learnt. Everything else is a bit out there but the sofa, it's boring. Oh. See I've been loving a show that, I mean I'm all over Netflix and all that, love a box set. But I really like a show on Apple TV called The Morning Show and I can't really tell anybody I watch it because it's so similar to my actual life, in terms of, it's a mirror image really because it's about a breakfast show and even though we're not on in the morning, we're on in the evening, very similar. So, yeah, I quietly watch that. It would be easier to say what's been my culinary success, to be honest. I am not a very good chef but I think years ago when I first made, it was my first lasagna and it was a chicken and mushroom lasagna and, I mean I've come on a lot since this point. But my husband came into the kitchen and said, "What you doing Al?" and I went, (sighs) "Tell you what, there's not much meat at all "on this chicken." You know, I was pulling meat off a pre cooked chicken and I said, "There's not much meat, "I don't think there's gonna be enough meat here." and he said, "You might want to turn it "the other way around." so I was essentially picking its bum. My mother is super organised, she is domestic goddess, I actually don't know. I mean am I adopted? I don't know. She often questions this. She's super organised. Her airing cupboard is a work of art. So nice, everything smells lovely, folded so neatly, I mean mine could be more different. But in terms of housekeeping, my mother's motto is, "You've just gotta keep on top of it." I mean, she is busy. She's always doing something and I think don't let things slide is her general advice to me. And, yeah, her house is pretty immaculate. So I'll go with that. I try to palm off all household jobs, however the one I really, really hate is cleaning the kind of under the sink-y plug-y thing in the shower. Ah see, I'm a bit torn with the whole should shoes stay on, come off. I would never ask guests, and this is just me personally, I'd never ask guests to pull their shoes off. Well A, I'm not that bothered, I mean I'm not precious and also sometimes people can be embarrassed about their socks. I've been there, when you haven't thought that morning and you know, suddenly we end up filming or whatever in somebody's house where you've gotta pull your shoes off and you're thinking, my sock game is really bad today. But I think, if people wanna pull their shoes off they're also welcome. In our house, we kinda tend to not go upstairs with shoes on just because I don't want the entire London street thing on the carpets. But downstairs, hard floors, I think keep them on. Oh now, we change our bedsheets every week. Which I think, probably for some people is quite extreme. But I just like the feeling of crisp bedsheets, it feels like a big treat. First night in clean sheets, that's one of the best things in life, I think.

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