Diona Doherty

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That's today's guest, Diona Doherty, who was 30 weeks pregnant at the time of recording.

Now here's some baby animal trivia, because we love little baby animals.

Baby opossums, not possums, but opossums, my son has one of these, are so small at birth that you could fit 20 of them in a teaspoon.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

I think I was just in another room in the middle of nowhere in gym land.

Derryborn Diona Doherty is an actor, writer and comedian who is married to fellow comic Sean Hegarty.

They have between them four kids with a fifth imminently on the way.

I was like, oh fuck, okay.

A love letter to Diona Doherty.

Diona, it all started with the hiya, a hello I'll never forget, and somehow that makes this chapter of our lives even harder to put into words.

We've come such a long way from that first meeting, all of us sitting downstairs in the coffee shop, absolutely shook that Jordan knew swear words.

Four wee girls from the tiny country that we call home who just wanted to spread a little bit of pink.

And if that wee blade kissing Dracula on the dry walls could see you now, she'd be absolutely in awe, much like I am.

because look at what you've created with your own bare hands you saw something in us before we could even see it in ourselves and you had the courage the madness and the sheer determination to bring us all together and let us become what we were meant to be i can only imagine the pride that winter and rocky will feel and already do feel when they grow up and truly understand all of the insanely talented beautiful things that their mummy has given to the world part of me wishes that we could just wrap you in cotton wool and beg you to stay but that just wouldn't be fair because the rest of the world deserves to see you shine too You might be Diona Doherty, a comedian and an actress and an overall superstar, but to us, you'll always be Dido.

And we'll keep growing this beautiful pink little community that we all call the DGC.

You sound honey voice.

That's today's guest, Alistair McGowan.

Freddie Mercury is said to have had a piano as a headboard so that he could play melodies that came to him in his dreams.

Chopin wrote his piano concerto number two before his piano concerto number one.

Me, Olivia.

And me, Diona.

Allegedly, those are our names.

We're not quite sure.

conversation the week before it was like we don't need the fucking confetti cannon it was

literally like not happening not happening me

and Diona were so against it and you were like we have to do it and you were like what a waste of money it's like fireworks at a wedding fucking hell just poof your money into the air it was

worth it It was.