Your guilty streaming pleasure?

I have no guilt about any of my streaming pleasures. I love (good) reality TV, I think there’s real craft in that type of storytelling that people often miss because they’re too busy looking down on the genre, or complaining about how “manufactured” it is. All stories are manufactured! Everything is edited! Didion says, ‘writers are always selling someone out’, and in reality TV it’s the same for producers, and that’s thrilling to me. In that regard, I’m really looking forward to this season of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and Kardashians.

Which phrase do you overuse?

Absofruitly. One of those ones I started saying as a joke and then it became real, unfortunately.

What did you want to do when you grew up?

Work for the UN as a translator.

What was your first job?

Smoothie technician at Boost Juice Hunter St (RIP).

Facebook or Instagram?

TikTok.

Recommend a podcast...

You Must Remember This, particularly the miniseries on Disney’s ‘Song of the South’, Charles Manson’s Hollywood, or Jean and Jane - Jean Seberg and Jane Fonda.

What’s one vice you wish you could give up?

Gossip.

The song that’s always on high rotation?

Losing You by Solange.

What are you reading?

Vladimir by Julia May Jonas.

Favourite movie of the past decade?

Boiling Point or Parasite.

Top of your sporting bucket list?

Do a kickflip.

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

You can get a discount on most online shopping by entering a woman’s name and a number as a code (e.g. BECKY10).

What are the three things you couldn’t live without?

My phone, my bed, sunscreen.

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