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Hannah East

Hannah East

Aug 2, 2026

10:12
Yeah.
10:12
And I was in my Lycas.
10:14
And he, he said, "Oh, Hannah, can you just read the autocue for me?" So I was like, "Right, okay." And then I'd, messing about with him, read the autocue, and he's like, "You should be a presenter.
10:22
You should be a sports presenter, honest- like, honestly, it's, like, really good." I was like, "Oh, thanks." And I thought, "How do you get, how do you even do that? How do you get into presenting?"
10:30
Yeah.
10:31
Because I just finished university.
10:32
I'm stood there on the Gladiators like, you know, "What, how do you do that?" So, um, I thought, "Right, I'm gonna try and get a job hosting, presenting, doing events." So one of the first events, actually the first event that I presented was Miss Scarborough.
16:29
Um,
16:30
but, um, we had kind of applied for a couple of different kids and it was like weeks later and nothing had happened and you weren't a match or whatever.
16:40
Um, And we saw these three boys and we always wanted to keep sibling groups together.
16:46
That was kind of been our goal from the beginning.
16:48
We bought our house the size it is so that we could have siblings.
16:51
And you know, so I saw three boys and yeah, we, we inquired on them and within two days they were like, yeah, we think you might be a match.
17:02
It was crazy.
21:03
Like all the things, what did that look like? And how did it stretch all?
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13:41
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13:46
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13:58
Okay, so let's talk about the first year of being a parent.
14:00
What were your expectations about playing and interacting with your babies? Did you always find it easy, or was it something that kind of you had to work at?
HollyHOST
18:41
Yeah
18:41
...
18:41
I remember doing that when I was younger, and I think for me, I always feel like a little bit silly doing like the pretend play.
18:47
My husband, Jacob, he's brilliant, and then my stepdad, John, he is like, he was born to, like, look after children.
29:27
That's really hard on yourself.
29:29
Yeah, and I don't know why that was the narrative I had in my head.
29:31
Because it was, you know, some family members are like, oh, but why do you want to try for a third? Because you have got...
29:37
You know, most of my family have two kids.
29:39
And they were like, why is it? And then people say, oh, are you trying for a girl? And it's like, no, I've always seen myself with boys.
29:45
I don't know, you know.
29:47
And it was a...

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