Pod Insights Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware Christmas with Jessie & Lennie About this episode It’s Christmas Eve and we’re sitting down with a glass of champagne to listen to the Queen’s (Lennie) speech. We're joined by some of our lovely listeners from around the world to hear about their Christmas traditions and answer their questions. We cover everything from Christmas games, desserts, roast potatoes, mulled wine, cocktails, oven space hacks and the age old debate of Yorkshire puddings at Christmas! Plus you may hear from a few friends of the podcast along the way, including Cheryl, Kadiff Kirwan, Benny Blanco & more. Wishing all of our fabulous listeners (and watchers!) a very Merry Christmas wherever you are! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
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0:03 Jessie Ware? Hello and Merry Christmas. We are here in my house on Christmas Eve, getting ready for the big day and we wanted to do a special, special Table Manners with you, the listeners. So you're all invited to Christmas at Table Manners. How are you Mum?
0:20 Speaker 01 A bit tired, ready. I feel like I've been a hamster on a wheel and I'm just coming to the end of it, just stopping now. Have you, is everything ready?
0:28 Jessie Ware? No.
0:29 Speaker 01 Wrapped all the Christmas presents?
0:30 Jessie Ware? No, and Sam is very weird about Christmas present wrapping.
0:34 Speaker 01 He wraps really well.
0:35 Jessie Ware? He puts the same bloody album on and wraps and he uses his feet, which actually sounds disgusting.
0:41 Speaker 01 Have you got your Christmas album?
0:43 Jessie Ware? He plays the, that Charlie Brown one, which is amazing, the like jazz, anyway, I've heard it so many times now. We had it when the tree went up. We had it when he made his mince pies. Like we had it when the kids were like colouring in the other day.
0:57 Speaker 01 What's his favourite song?
0:59 Jessie Ware? I mean, this is all, by the way, with us shouting at our children too. So don't worry, it's like not idyllic.
1:03 Speaker 01 So what's his favourite song?
1:05 Jessie Ware? I mean, we've been, no, now, now we're going to sound like the Von Trapps. I've been getting my daughter, who is really good at the piano, and she's quite shy. So the piano's become like her thing, um, to learn a few things. And this was inspired by John Gregory Smith. So she is learning a few because I thought maybe we'd add that tradition to our house. Maybe not E17.
1:30 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:31 Jessie Ware? But have yourself a merry little Christmas.
1:34 Speaker 01 Any of the Phil Spector? I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus?
1:38 Jessie Ware? No, even though I do love that record.
1:41 Speaker 01 Me too.
1:42 Jessie Ware? Um, I know we're not really into it.
1:43 Speaker 01 Okay, I think it's fine. We like the song.
1:46 Jessie Ware? Um, no, she, what else? Oh, Last Christmas and my son.
1:49 Speaker 01 He can play one.
1:50 Jessie Ware? No, he's very competitive with his big sister.
1:53 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:53 Jessie Ware? So I think there'll be a fight over Last Christmas. I think maybe just choose.
1:56 Speaker 01 Can she play it?
1:57 Jessie Ware? She learnt it last night. So let's see.
2:00 Speaker 01 Oh my goodness.
2:01 Jessie Ware? Is it a bit on track?
2:02 Speaker 01 No. Can she do Jingle Bell?
2:03 Jessie Ware? I think what I liked about the John Gregory Smith one was that it was E17 and it wasn't even like Stay Another Day. It was, when the thunder calls you. So anyway, so yeah, we're going to have a sing song around. Cheers. Merry Christmas.
2:15 Speaker 01 Oh cheers darling. Happy Christmas. Darling, are we going to have a little bit of a nibble to go with the champagne?
2:21 Jessie Ware? Well, of course, it's Table Manners and I couldn't like, you know, we couldn't have a dry house and we couldn't have an empty stomach. So I have made something from our cookbook. Um, that is a really easy puff pastry tart. I don't make puff pastry, um, so you get the pre-rolled stuff. And it's a Stilton caramelised onion, apple and walnut with thyme tart. And it's very much like you just chop some things up.
2:45 Speaker 01 How long did it take you?
2:46 Jessie Ware? Half an hour.
2:47 Speaker 01 Okay.
2:48 Jessie Ware? So that's just waiting for us to eat in a minute. However, we asked loads of you to send in voice notes and videos and you were so generous. So thank you for joining us this Christmas special. Shall we start?
3:01 Speaker 01 Yes, darling.
3:02 Jessie Ware? Okay.
3:03 Speaker 01 Who's this?
3:03 Speaker 02 Hi Jessie and Lennie. This is Cam from North London.
3:07 Jessie Ware? Hi Cam.
3:08 Speaker 02 Have you ever, or would you ever, cook a bird in a bird in a bird for a Christmas lunch? Or any kind of lunch? Just can't get my head around it. Have an amazing festive break. Thank you.
3:21 Speaker 01 Oh, you can get, you can get them at the butcher's. It's like a three bird roast.
3:26 Jessie Ware? But which birds are they?
3:27 Speaker 01 Well, I think you start with the biggest, like a turkey, and then it's a capon, and then it's a chicken. Um, and they just put them all in.
3:34 Jessie Ware? What's a capon?
3:36 Speaker 01 Capon's like, it's a cockerel, isn't it? It's a, a male chicken, I think. But it's bigger than a chicken and people prefer it to turkey. I don't. But sometimes I think they do turkey, duck and chicken. And you have the three birds all cooked inside each other. Sometimes they do it like a roll.
3:56 Jessie Ware? No, I'm fine. But you know what, Cam from London, I'm all right. I've already got like beef and pork. Within, well, we've got the beef stuffing inside the turkey.
4:08 Speaker 01 Yeah.
4:09 Jessie Ware? And then we've got the sausages. It's all feeling quite sexually explicit, this. Like, I'm gonna eat a cock. I'm not gonna eat.
4:15 Speaker 01 Oh my god, please.
4:17 Jessie Ware? No?
4:17 Speaker 01 No.
4:18 Jessie Ware? Right, okay. Um, no, I won't do that, Cam. And I don't know, is this because you've been put under pressure by your family to do this?
4:24 Speaker 01 No, you can buy it already rolled, Cam, so you don't have to put your bird within a bird within a bird.
4:29 Jessie Ware? A play within a play, within a play. Um, okay.
4:32 Speaker 01 Let's see, Andrew.
4:34 Speaker 03 Well, happy Christmas to you, Jessie and Lennie. Andrew here, one of your American expats listeners in London. I'm pleased to say that your Table Managers podcast was my gateway five years ago when I moved here, my gateway to all things British culture in terms of food and hospitality and all other things. So, thank you for that. I thought I'd share my own Christmas tradition where I have made chicken pot pies for about 10 years on my own, which started as a family tradition back before I was born. Every Christmas Eve, we have the same chicken pot pie, a very simple pulled chicken that's been poached for several hours with sliced carrots and a really simple roux with a really good pastry
5:16 Speaker 03 top. It's very easy and very comforting. And I thought, why have I grown up just eating this once a year? It's so good. Why don't we make this like a whole month festive season thing? And so for about a decade now, I've made upwards of, sometimes I think a dozen is my record, a dozen pot pies across the festive season for close colleagues, friends, students last week. And so I'm proud to say I'm on chicken pot pie number three. Happy to share the recipe if you'd like, but just thanks and happy Christmas to you both. And thanks for Table Managers. Cheers.
5:48 Speaker 01 Well, it sounds delicious. Not the most Christmasy.
5:53 Jessie Ware? I mean, I feel like in my family, we have a version of a chicken pie like every week because it's what my kids will eat. So by Christmas Eve, it's a great idea because I guess it's kind of easy, but then I don't necessarily want to be dealing with another bird the day before I'm dealing with the big one.
6:12 Speaker 01 But I wouldn't mind Andrew as my friend.
6:14 Jessie Ware? No, you can bring one around. Yeah.
6:16 Speaker 01 He can bring one around.
6:16 Jessie Ware? And I just think actually pies are like comforting, gorgeous.
6:20 Speaker 01 Yeah, they're delicious.
6:21 Jessie Ware? But I guess you're kind of, you're doing it the day before, not with your leftovers, Andrew. So what are you doing with your leftovers?
6:27 Speaker 01 He's poaching fresh chicken.
6:28 Jessie Ware? I know, but then what's he gonna do with his turkey? Because then that's when I'd make a chicken pie.
6:33 Speaker 01 Or a turkey pie. I think he's doing it as a generous thing to do for people to eat during the festive season. And a pie is probably quite good when you're drinking a lot.
6:46 Jessie Ware? I think it's a really nice idea and I think anyone that's wanting to make a pot pie for anyone they love is a gorgeous human being. So Merry Christmas, Andrew. Do you want to press one?
6:56 Speaker 01 Let me have a look, darling.
6:57 Jessie Ware? Okay.
6:58 Speaker 04 This is Tom from Ireland. What is your most unusual Christmas tradition?
7:04 Jessie Ware? I don't think we have that.
7:05 Speaker 01 No.
7:06 Jessie Ware? Unusual, because we're kind of not really supposed to do it as big as we do.
7:10 Speaker 01 Oh, I go big, go big on the tree.
7:13 Jessie Ware? I always remember our tradition when we were younger, we put on the vinyl of um Feed the World.
7:20 Speaker 01 Yeah.
7:21 Jessie Ware? Let them know it's Christmas time. What was it? Live Aid? No, was it Live Aid?
7:25 Speaker 01 Feed the World, yeah.
7:27 Jessie Ware? Band-Aid. It was Band-Aid. Feed the World. And we put that on, on the vinyl.
7:32 Speaker 01 Yeah.
7:33 Jessie Ware? And do our.
7:34 Speaker 01 And I did have a.
7:35 Jessie Ware? I actually haven't heard that yet this year.
7:36 Speaker 01 I did have a vinyl Christmas album that was all different, a compilation. We used to put that on. Do you remember?
7:43 Jessie Ware? I don't think that's unusual, is it?
7:45 Speaker 01 No.
7:45 Jessie Ware? So we're pretty orthodox, I feel, but we have had other people that have given us brilliant Christmas traditions. Fine, we've already talked about John Gregory Smith's.
7:54 Speaker 01 Singing, he's seventeen.
7:57 Jessie Ware? Sophie Ellis-Bextor's was.
7:58 Speaker 01 The conga.
7:59 Jessie Ware? They do like a Christmas tree. Was it? No, it was with the Christmas pudding, wasn't it? Where they like do a conga with the Christmas pudding?
8:06 Speaker 01 I can't remember, darling.
8:06 Jessie Ware? Forgot to do that last year, that we could still do that.
8:09 Speaker 01 Yeah. I think people have very weird traditions about when they open their presents. So children are allowed to open their stockings in the morning, but not allowed to open their presents till tea time.
8:21 Jessie Ware? But I mean, like, which parent has a handle on that? Because.
8:25 Speaker 01 Don't know.
8:26 Jessie Ware? I I know that by the time you get to like tree presents and the kids are literally like, where's the next one? And you end up having a fight with your children, saying you're so ungrateful.
8:34 Speaker 01 Don't you think there's always a debate about when you eat your Christmas dinner or lunch? I mean, I don't like Christmas dinner too late. John Gregory Smith eats at nine. I couldn't wait that long. But we eat about four, don't we?
8:49 Jessie Ware? I think the majority of people eat around three or four, right?
8:51 Speaker 01 Yeah, because once you've had all the chocolates out of your Christmas stocking, the children aren't really ready.
8:56 Jessie Ware? We do have a tradition where we have this quite sweet but silly advent calendar that's like got drawers. Look.
9:04 Speaker 01 Yeah, and you have.
9:04 Jessie Ware? And it's charming.
9:05 Speaker 01 And you do a treasure hunt.
9:07 Jessie Ware? So we realised when I bought it, because I impulsively buy things a lot, that it couldn't fit three coins in it for our three children, so it was useless. So the only thing we could put in there was a note. So then we started doing like a treasure hunt on every day. And this year, we've introduced riddles. Now my middle child is well into it. So they have to like locate and sometimes they'll get a chocolate, sometimes they'll get a carrot, sometimes they'll get a satsuma. But they have to go and find it. But we have messed it up for ourselves. It's kind of like our version of Elf on the Shelf. Like it's it's kind of taxing, but quite fun.
9:48 Jessie Ware? So they're all going to be like, riddle me this. And they'll be giving out twenty four different riddles on Christmas dates.
9:54 Speaker 05 Do another one.
9:55 Jessie Ware? Okay, who are we going to?
9:55 Speaker 05 Jessie, Lennie, happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays. Could you possibly do me a favour, girls, and tell me good mulled wine recipe that I could knock up nice and quick for my guests as they turn up? I've got fears in the fridge, but I do love a mulled wine at this time of year. What's going in it? Any tips gratefully received. Love to you all. You know, I adore you. From me, Zoe.
10:22 Jessie Ware? Why is she the nicest woman in the world? I love Zoe Ball and that's so sweet that you.
10:28 Speaker 05 Do you love mulled wine?
10:29 Jessie Ware? Okay, I tell you what happened on at the winter fair at the school. This is very motherland.
10:34 Speaker 05 Oh, you didn't drink too much mulled wine.
10:36 Jessie Ware? Me and my girlfriend have gone out. We were trying to be youthful. We went to Fabric for the first time in about fifteen years. So we went and we were having a great time. Producer Alice was there, Lucum, Socials was there. We were having a great time. We were all like patting ourselves on the back.
10:52 Speaker 05 Were you fifteen years older than most people as well?
10:55 Jessie Ware? No, actually.
10:55 Speaker 05 Okay.
10:56 Jessie Ware? Actually, no. And that really reassured us.
10:58 Speaker 05 Okay.
10:58 Jessie Ware? We felt really good about ourselves. The first thing I did was go to the pizza stand. Fabric now has pizza, by the way. Fabulous.
11:05 Speaker 05 What did you wear?
11:06 Jessie Ware? Wore strappy top and jeans and trainers, obviously. Anyway, did that. Fabric had a bit of a late night. The next day was the winter fair at the school. And. I was feeling a little squiffy and there was mulled wine, all for a good cause. Had the first one, oh, hit the spot. I'm telling you, no one needs that second mulled wine. That is my gift to you this Christmas. Don't go for the second mulled wine. The first one is gorgeous, Christmasy, cosy. Second one, you're already getting the hangover on the second sip.
11:39 Speaker 01 See, I love it.
11:40 Jessie Ware? Try two and see how you go.
11:42 Speaker 01 Because I like the cinnamon stick in it.
11:44 Jessie Ware? Okay, so to answer Zoe's question, how would you do your mulled wine? Cheap red wine?
11:49 Speaker 01 Cheap red wine.
11:50 Jessie Ware? Because it's going to be cooked?
11:51 Speaker 01 Some sugar, some brandy in it, a little, maybe a little splash, just to give it a bit of pep.
11:58 Jessie Ware? Cloves into the orange, shove them in and it looks pretty.
12:02 Speaker 01 Orange peel, cinnamon sticks.
12:05 Jessie Ware? Orange juice, fresh orange juice?
12:07 Speaker 01 I never put orange juice in. You don't dilute the alcohol, darling.
12:11 Jessie Ware? Well, I think it looks pretty anyway, having the whole orange in with this cloves. It's kind of like when you do the bread sauce with the onions and the cloves.
12:18 Speaker 01 I've never done it like that. I just put the cloves in and peel some orange peel in it so the zest comes out.
12:24 Jessie Ware? I have to say, I think the best thing about mulled wine is the smell rather than the actual taste.
12:27 Speaker 01 The smell is delicious, yeah.
12:28 Jessie Ware? I think, I saw somebody on Instagram had on their hob for like the whole, since like Thanksgiving and throughout Christmas, just had like oranges with cloves and cinnamon boiling on her hob, like just so she could like, it's like the most expensive sent to candle.
12:51 Speaker 01 That's why you want to make the red cabbage, because it makes your house smell nice.
12:54 Jessie Ware? Yeah, I think mulled wine and red cabbage do the same thing. Thank you, Zoe. Milan from Belgium.
13:00 Speaker 06 Hi, Jessie, hi, Lennie. This is Milan from Belgium. And I just want to say thank you for all the joy you guys have been spreading since multiple years. I'm one of your early listeners and I've learned a lot thanks to your podcast. And since you guys always talk about nostalgic smells and flavours, to me, Christmas music is part of the nostalgic Christmas feelings. Jessie, we were wondering, do you think Christmas music might be in the pipeline?
13:30 Speaker 06 And if so, a small suggestion. Do you think you can maybe record Angels in the Snow by Cher? Which Cher? I mean, it is the Christmas banger the world needs. And I think some Lennie chicken soup might just seal the deal.
13:45 Jessie Ware? Okay, firstly, Milan.
13:47 Speaker 01 What house is that?
13:49 Jessie Ware? Did like a tour of his house.
13:52 Speaker 01 How gorgeous is that house?
13:53 Jessie Ware? Fabulous. Maybe we should all move to Belgium.
13:55 Speaker 01 Crikey, I want him to invite.
13:57 Jessie Ware? Not only, if you're listening to this and you're not watching on the YouTube, I think you should go on YouTube to see this. Um, Milan starts with our cookbook on his sofa with beautiful um artwork behind and gets up and the camera person follows backwards. Wow, that was stunning. That was stunning.
14:15 Speaker 01 He must be a designer or something.
14:17 Jessie Ware? So Milan is asking about music.
14:20 Speaker 01 Well, Jessie.
14:21 Jessie Ware? I, it's really funny. On my new record, I have a song that doesn't talk about Christmas. It talks about something kind of the opposite of Christmas.
14:30 Speaker 01 What?
14:30 Jessie Ware? But it sounds like a Christmas song and my manager said, you know what? Maybe could you instead of saying summers, can you say Christmas? And I was like, yeah, I can't. But maybe that would have been my Christmas song.
14:42 Speaker 01 Wow.
14:43 Jessie Ware? Um, and would I do a Christmas song? I mean, I'd have to write a really good one to be deserving to enter into that world because there are some shockers.
14:55 Speaker 01 And there's some great ones.
14:56 Jessie Ware? There's some great ones and also like more current ones. Ariana Grande's uh Santa tell me.
15:02 Speaker 01 What about Mariah Carey?
15:04 Jessie Ware? That's kind of vintage now, but yeah, it's amazing. Uh, Leona Lewis's one.
15:08 Speaker 01 Yeah.
15:09 Jessie Ware? Is amazing. Um, so I, oh Cher's recent one, DJ Play That Christmas Song, I think is brilliant. I don't know this other Cher Angels one.
15:18 Speaker 01 I don't believe. Maybe you should introduce that one darling. Darling, where do you think Cher has her Christmas tree? Do you think that's in her bedroom as well as her table?
15:27 Jessie Ware? Benny in LA. Don't say it's Benny Blanco.
15:30 Speaker 07 Jessie, Lennie, tell me. How to make the perfect roast dinner.
15:36 Jessie Ware? Hi Benny. God bless you Benny. Just keep on coming back for more. Benny.
15:40 Speaker 01 He looks like he's just got up.
15:42 Jessie Ware? He always looks like that. Benny notoriously hates roast dinner.
15:47 Speaker 01 Why?
15:47 Jessie Ware? Hates it, says it's overrated, doesn't get it. So I'm interested why you want to know how to make it Benny. Um, we'll have to give you a Lennie or Jessie roast.
15:58 Speaker 01 Yeah, we'll do a roast for him.
15:59 Jessie Ware? This is too long to go into.
16:01 Speaker 01 Yeah. But the perfect roast dinner must have the perfect roast potatoes.
16:05 Jessie Ware? And I have not perfected my roast.
16:07 Speaker 01 Americans are not big on roast potatoes.
16:10 Jessie Ware? I don't think they do them.
16:11 Speaker 01 No, they barely do them. They have mashed potatoes, they have french fries, they might even have saute, but not a proper roast potato.
16:18 Jessie Ware? Benny, you will come over and we will feed you a good roast dinner, but it's a lot, it's a lot.
16:24 Speaker 01 He needs a Yorkshire pudding and roast potatoes and good gravy.
16:28 Jessie Ware? I know he will hate it.
16:29 Speaker 01 And red cabbage?
16:32 Jessie Ware? Maybe he'll like the red cabbage.
16:33 Speaker 01 Jessie, am I in charge of potatoes this year?
16:35 Jessie Ware? Yes.
16:36 Speaker 01 Okay, fine. And the parsnips?
16:39 Jessie Ware? Yes.
16:39 Speaker 01 Anything else?
16:41 Jessie Ware? You have to bring a cheese for the cheese board.
16:43 Speaker 01 Oh, I had a fab cheese last night. It was a Swiss cheese and the outside of the cheese is rose petals. And that's the whole, and it flavours.
16:52 Jessie Ware? More than.
16:53 Speaker 01 No, it was a Johnny and Jill's and they, they bought it from, I'll get it from McFarlane's, it's delicious, Swiss cheese. Oh, let's see Frankie in Lewisham, she's near here.
17:03 Speaker 08 Hi, my name's Frankie and I'm from Lewisham. And I'm just looking at table runners, listening to your podcast and thinking, I wonder how you do your table at Christmas? Is the regular things that have become tradition that you do to dress the table? Or do you redo it depending on trends and stuff? Um, I'd love to know. Thank you. Bye bye.
17:24 Speaker 01 Is this called tablescaping?
17:26 Jessie Ware? I think a table runner is tablescaping.
17:29 Speaker 01 Okay. We don't have a runner here, do we?
17:32 Jessie Ware? No.
17:33 Speaker 01 I am going to bring those lovely beaded mats that we were given about four years ago.
17:38 Jessie Ware? Why?
17:39 Speaker 01 Because they're nice for your hot plates and you don't have enough things to put hot food on.
17:44 Jessie Ware? The problem with my table.
17:45 Speaker 01 Is it's rubbish.
17:46 Jessie Ware? Well. It's custom made, but it does wobble.
17:50 Speaker 01 It wobbles.
17:50 Jessie Ware? Yeah, it's been a nightmare, to be honest.
17:52 Speaker 01 It's been a nightmare, it wobbles.
17:54 Jessie Ware? We've also got thirteen people round my table.
17:56 Speaker 01 It'll be alright.
17:57 Jessie Ware? Yeah, but what I'm saying to Frankie is that I don't have enough space to table scape it because the plates are taking up too much space and the condiments. I'll have some candles which you'll rethink because you'll end up like accidentally burning yourself when you're going for the bread sauce. But I'm.
18:13 Speaker 01 I think you need to have it on the counter, darling.
18:16 Jessie Ware? Yeah, so I think I'm gonna do more buffet.
18:18 Speaker 01 Yeah.
18:18 Jessie Ware? Counter for the food and then maybe I could table scape it.
18:22 Speaker 01 Yeah.
18:23 Jessie Ware? Because I do appreciate a table scape. I also find people that can table scape are psychopaths. Because how do you have time to do that when there's so much other stuff to do? And I think the food is the most important thing. So I don't, never trust somebody that does a name tag.
18:39 Speaker 01 Yeah, I am buying serving spoons this year so that we don't have to pick up our potatoes with our hands or forks. Not that.
18:48 Jessie Ware? Thank you.
18:49 Speaker 01 Yes, and your brother's very good at doing the table. Maybe you should allocate him that job.
18:54 Jessie Ware? No, I like him washing up. That's more helpful for me.
18:56 Speaker 01 Alright then.
18:57 Jessie Ware? Um, yeah, but Frankie, yeah, I, I, I'd love to be that gal, but I'm not.
19:03 Speaker 01 Jessie, I have got red linen knaps.
19:06 Jessie Ware? I remember, Mum, you used to have a, um.
19:08 Speaker 01 I've got my love and gloves.
19:11 Jessie Ware? Um, you'd have this little thing that was quite adorable. It was like fairy nights with a candle. Do you remember?
19:17 Speaker 01 Yeah, I used to like those little candles and their angels on the top. And when you put the candles, they're little tea lights, but the heat makes the, the angels spin round. Shall I try and find one for you? The kids would like that.
19:30 Jessie Ware? Very distracting, won't it? But sure.
19:32 Speaker 01 The spinning angels.
19:33 Jessie Ware? Thing is Frankie, I feel like candlelight, you can't go wrong. It always looks gorgeous.
19:38 Speaker 01 Yeah.
19:38 Jessie Ware? It's just really a pain in the arse if it's on the table, too many, because if you, I don't know how big your.
19:44 Speaker 01 Kids will burn themselves. I've got my plastic ones.
19:47 Jessie Ware? No, I can't do, I can't do.
19:49 Speaker 01 I love those.
19:49 Jessie Ware? I can't do batch oxidated tea lights. No.
19:52 Speaker 01 Even Aris, our friend Aris, who's very stylish, bought those. I think we all bought them in, um, the, the lady was selling them when we were in Scopelos.
20:02 Jessie Ware? I would love to know everyone else's opinion on the table scape and maybe I've been mean. But Frankie, I think, don't worry. Your food is your table scape and some nice napkins. This is from Cheryl.
20:14 Speaker 09 Hi Jessie, it's Cheryl. I hope you don't mind me asking, but I'm just looking for some feedback or your opinion on something. So I'll be doing the roast potatoes this Christmas. And I recently saw a video where a lady was explaining that she'd went through all kinds of different fats to cook them in. And she recommends that you snap the potatoes instead of cutting them. Then parboil them and then add, wait for it, clotted cream to cook them in. So I was wondering if you'd heard about that and if you have, what your opinion is, because I'm planning on trying it. Thank you. Merry Christmas to all.
20:59 Speaker 01 Merry Christmas Cheryl.
21:00 Jessie Ware? I love Cheryl. You know, when you get a voice note from Cheryl.
21:05 Speaker 01 Yeah, you know who it is.
21:06 Jessie Ware? You know who it is.
21:08 Speaker 01 I don't know how you'd snap a potato.
21:10 Jessie Ware? That is the maddest thing I've ever heard.
21:12 Speaker 01 A tarzan.
21:13 Jessie Ware? But you can get the jagged edges from like.
21:15 Speaker 01 Parboiling them.
21:17 Jessie Ware? Hey, this person is extra Cheryl, forget the snap.
21:19 Speaker 01 I think you'd have to do weight training to do that because they're small. It's kind of hard. How would you snap it?
21:25 Jessie Ware? You're following the wrong food influences Cheryl. That's what I'm telling you. That's my gift to you.
21:32 Speaker 01 I haven't tried, I've never cooked with goose fat, but I did see it in M and S yesterday.
21:36 Jessie Ware? But you've got such a strong opinion on not cooking with it, Mum.
21:39 Speaker 01 I just kind of prefer olive oil.
21:41 Jessie Ware? That's mad.
21:42 Speaker 01 My Greek olive oil. Anyway.
21:43 Jessie Ware? Anyway, I, well, it's too late now, but I would do a trial rum with the clotted cream.
21:50 Speaker 01 Right, there's someone here.
21:52 Jessie Ware? I'm squinting because I don't.
21:53 Speaker 01 That you know.
21:54 Speaker 10 Hello, Lennie and Jessie, Jessie and Lennie, my beautiful table manners queens. It's Kadeev here and I just wanted to send you a message to say season's greetings and a Merry Christmas. Now, I've got a request, a little question for you. Is it okay to serve Yorkshire puddings with Christmas dinner?
22:12 Speaker 11 I'm not quite sure. And if so, should you make them yourself or store by them? This is a burning question I've been wanting to ask for years now, and I think it can help me. So let me know. Merry Christmas.
22:26 Jessie Ware? Hi, Kadeef.
22:26 Speaker 01 If you like Yorkshire puddings and people have them with their roast chicken, I've noticed.
22:31 Jessie Ware? Yeah.
22:32 Speaker 01 Um, if, why shouldn't you have it with your Christmas dinner?
22:35 Jessie Ware? I think.
22:35 Speaker 01 If you like it, have it.
22:37 Jessie Ware? And I think the only thing that's going to be a problem is oven space.
22:40 Speaker 01 Yeah.
22:41 Jessie Ware? Like, that's the only issue.
22:42 Speaker 01 I definitely think that you should buy them.
22:45 Jessie Ware? Buy them. Aunt Bessie's are fine.
22:47 Speaker 01 Yeah, they're fine.
22:48 Jessie Ware? Also, like.
22:48 Speaker 01 There's so many other things on the plate. You just want them to hold the gravy, I think.
22:53 Jessie Ware? I think crack on, Kadeef.
22:54 Speaker 01 Yeah.
22:55 Jessie Ware? Um, Kadeef has really good Christmases with all his family. And I think, if I remember rightly, Kadeef is on like cocktail duty. Um, and he's like the fun uncle that, um, gives everyone all massive hangovers the next day. Um, Merry Christmas, Kadeef. Let's go for, oh, salmon new cross. I wonder who that could be.
23:16 Speaker 11 All right, this is a very important question. Well, it is for me anyway. Who this Christmas is gonna make the red cabbage? Is it gonna be you or is it gonna be Lennie? And in your personal opinion, who makes the finest red cabbage?
23:34 Speaker 01 Right.
23:34 Jessie Ware? Okay.
23:35 Speaker 01 I think my red cabbage is very good.
23:37 Jessie Ware? This is my husband, by the way. People that don't know, that's my husband.
23:39 Speaker 01 I did read a recipe this weekend of red cabbage cooked in ribena. They, they use a whole bottle. It was in the Sunday Times.
23:47 Jessie Ware? That's madness.
23:49 Speaker 01 And they said it was amazing. And you cook it with a whole bottle of ribena, the whole red cabbage. And they said it was absolutely delicious.
23:57 Jessie Ware? A whole bottle of undiluted.
23:59 Speaker 01 Yeah.
24:00 Jessie Ware? What? And so we'll all just go to the dentist for New Year?
24:03 Speaker 01 Well, I don't know. I think my red cabbage is great. You want to cook it this year. Only so your house smells nice.
24:09 Jessie Ware? Your red cabbage is great. It's in the cookbook. I go buy that red cabbage. I think I add more butter than you.
24:16 Speaker 01 So, okay, so it's really, you're cooking, so you're really cooking my red cabbage.
24:20 Jessie Ware? I'm inspired by you, Lennie, but it's time to hand over.
24:22 Speaker 01 All right, fine. You do it.
24:24 Jessie Ware? Um, and yeah, I'm doing it.
24:25 Speaker 01 Thanks, Sam and New Cross.
24:28 Jessie Ware? Um, and what are you doing, Sam? Fuck all.
24:32 Speaker 01 Alison Ramsgate.
24:33 Speaker 12 Hi Jessie and Lennie, my name's Alison, I'm from Ramsgate.
24:37 Jessie Ware? Hi Alice.
24:38 Speaker 12 And I absolutely love your podcast. My question is, are you a Christmas Day person or a Boxing Day person? Personally, I just think there's way less pressure around Boxing Day. And it's kind of carte blanche to stay in your pyjamas, eat whatever you want, including a turkey curry and just watch films. So I weirdly look forward to Boxing Day more than Christmas Day. Interested to know your thoughts.
25:04 Jessie Ware? Thank you, Alice in Ramsgate. I actually, you know what? We kind of started doing a tradition that then we stopped.
25:12 Speaker 01 Having a party on Boxing Day.
25:14 Jessie Ware? Did we?
25:14 Speaker 01 Yeah, we did, for a while.
25:16 Jessie Ware? That's madness. Why would you do that?
25:18 Speaker 01 Because you have leftovers and everyone loves the leftovers and you have a trifle. Which you can't eat the day before because you're too full.
25:26 Jessie Ware? I always, I really like Boxing Day.
25:28 Speaker 01 I like the races on Boxing Day.
25:30 Jessie Ware? I'm ready to get rid of all my decorations though by like the 27th. I'm like, get out of my house.
25:35 Speaker 01 Really?
25:36 Jessie Ware? Christmas, you're dead to me for another year.
25:37 Speaker 01 That's because you're starting November, darling.
25:39 Jessie Ware? Yeah, maybe. But I, we used to go to the races on Boxing Day in Kempton Park.
25:47 Speaker 01 Love it.
25:48 Jessie Ware? And I really wanted to take the kids there.
25:50 Speaker 01 Why can't we go this year?
25:51 Jessie Ware? Because Sam may be starting a new tradition.
25:54 Speaker 01 Of?
25:55 Jessie Ware? We may, we're going to Millwall match, the Millwall match, which is down the road.
26:00 Speaker 01 No one likes them and they don't care.
26:02 Jessie Ware? Well, but like there's a family enclosure and a load of people are going and that feels a bit easier than getting to Kempton Park. But I do like Boxing Day. I think maybe it was more fun when you were younger to play with all your toys. Usually now it's just cleaning up. I had the flu on Boxing Day a few years ago.
26:25 Speaker 01 We were all ill.
26:25 Jessie Ware? We were all just, I was, I couldn't like move. I think I was like just spent, so I think Boxing Day has become less fun for me. But I don't know, I'm interested, does anybody else have like Boxing Day traditions? Do you not have Boxing Day?
26:41 Jessie Ware? Luca, who works on the show, his tradition is Nigella's gammon in Coca Cola.
26:47 Speaker 01 If you cook a gammon in coke, why can't you cook a red cabbage in Ribena?
26:51 Jessie Ware? Yeah, fair enough.
26:52 Speaker 01 Yeah.
26:52 Jessie Ware? Thanks, Alice. Let's see, Lola.
26:56 Speaker 13 Hi Jessie and Lennie, this is Lola from Walthamstow. I just wondered, what is the best Christmas game you've ever played? Or what's the best Christmas game that gets everybody involved at Christmas?
27:10 Jessie Ware? That's such a good question, Lola.
27:13 Speaker 01 We don't really have one, do we?
27:14 Jessie Ware? We're so rubbish.
27:15 Speaker 01 Well, we should be doing charades. I always like charades.
27:19 Jessie Ware? I saw at Din Tai Fung the other day, a family had the Post-it notes on their head whilst they were like, they were like with young children and they were playing a game in Din Tai Fung, like which is the dim sum place. And I thought, that is quite fun that they're doing that in a restaurant.
27:35 Speaker 01 Well, why don't we do, who am I?
27:37 Jessie Ware? Who am I? I did buy something that is a bit plasticky.
27:40 Speaker 01 What?
27:41 Jessie Ware? The one that you hang in the doorway and you have to catch the, the things they drop without you knowing. And you have to do reflexes. Have you seen that, anybody?
27:51 Speaker 01 No, what things?
27:52 Jessie Ware? Okay, so it's like, it looks like a coat hanger and it's got like five or six poles. And you turn it on and they drop at different times. You don't know which one's going to drop and it's about your reflexes. So that's what I'm going to bring out on Christmas Day.
28:05 Speaker 01 I remember we used to go to Tess', when we went to Tess's. Did you ever go to Tess's? And we did a quiz and you had to be in teams.
28:13 Jessie Ware? That's such a good question. And I wonder whether, I mean, there's so many good games now.
28:18 Speaker 01 Maybe we should create a game.
28:20 Jessie Ware? Oh, good luck, Lennie. Yeah, I mean, that'd be great, wouldn't it? Should we create the new Cards Against Humanity and become millionaires?
28:26 Speaker 01 Yeah.
28:26 Jessie Ware? Okay, fab. That'll be our new year's resolution. Does anyone play games here?
28:33 Speaker 14 There is a really good game that we play that your family might like.
28:35 Jessie Ware? Okay, can you get on the mic, Al?
28:37 Speaker 14 Yeah.
28:37 Jessie Ware? Yeah, okay. Producer Alice is coming in to tell us her family's game.
28:41 Speaker 14 So I have a really good game where you have two teams.
28:45 Jessie Ware? Yeah.
28:45 Speaker 14 One team in one room, one team in the other room. And you come up with a word, say really simply, like cat.
28:51 Jessie Ware? Yeah.
28:51 Speaker 14 And you tell the other team, our word rhymes with matt. And then they have to come in and act out all the words that rhyme with that till they find your word.
29:01 Speaker 01 That's good for children, isn't it? Yeah.
29:04 Speaker 14 And then if they come in and they act out stats, they can come in pairs or on their own. You're like, no, boo. And they have to do it until they get your word.
29:12 Speaker 01 Oh, that's good.
29:13 Speaker 14 Who taught you that one? That was like an old family game.
29:16 Speaker 01 That is a good one.
29:17 Speaker 14 I think it's called Dum Crambo.
29:19 Speaker 01 What?
29:20 Speaker 14 Yeah, I didn't know what.
29:21 Speaker 01 Very good.
29:22 Jessie Ware? Names and then Luca is doing Rummy Cup.
29:25 Speaker 01 No, that's a game that you buy.
29:27 Jessie Ware? Yeah, but they're funny old names, aren't they? Do you remember Gaga's favourite, Kaluki? Okay, let's go to Nathan in Carlisle.
29:35 Speaker 15 Hey up, Jessie and Lennie. I need your help fixing my family's biggest Christmas problem. I'm going home for Christmas this year and every year we end up with five different puddings on the table and there's always so much left over. So what pudding are you guys making this year that tailors to everybody?
29:49 Jessie Ware? Oh, Nathan, you're quite sassy. I like you. Nathan looks like Nathan does like radio or like TV presenting. Nathan, I find pudding the least exciting bit of Christmas.
30:02 Speaker 01 Do you?
30:02 Jessie Ware? Yeah.
30:03 Speaker 01 It's my favourite.
30:04 Jessie Ware? Christmas pudding, I love.
30:05 Speaker 01 I love, me too.
30:07 Jessie Ware? But I do.
30:07 Speaker 01 Brandy, brandy butter or cream or Bailey's cream?
30:11 Jessie Ware? Not brandy butter, disgusting. Bailey's cream, like brandy cream. I do think that, cause everyone wants to bring something, which is very sweet, but.
30:22 Speaker 01 Well, this year you've created a new tradition.
30:24 Jessie Ware? What have I done?
30:25 Speaker 01 Everyone's got to bring a cheese that they like.
30:27 Jessie Ware? Quite good. Um, but pudding, I do agree with you. It's like too much, isn't it?
30:32 Speaker 01 I love trifle.
30:33 Jessie Ware? Trifle is always on ours. Um, and my brother-in-law is doing it this year.
30:38 Speaker 01 Okay.
30:38 Jessie Ware? I always think a chocolate mousse is quite a good one, cause it's light.
30:41 Speaker 01 I'm ready for chocolates, the box of chocolates, the Ferrero Rocher with me, Bailey's.
30:46 Jessie Ware? Okay, fair enough.
30:47 Speaker 01 Yeah.
30:47 Jessie Ware? Um, but I think, um, Christmas pudding is incredibly divisive, isn't it? Cause people don't really like it.
30:53 Speaker 01 I love it.
30:54 Jessie Ware? Um.
30:55 Speaker 01 And you only eat it once a year. Bon Natale from Melbourne, Australia.
30:59 Speaker 16 Our Christmas is one that we spend with family and friends around the table, eating, drinking, laughing, having fun. My tradition is always to host Boxing Day, where I'll pop a glazed ham on the barbecue, lots of prawns, lots of seafood, always a turkey, um, lots of beautiful salads and sides for, for family to share. We go out onto the deck and we just spend the day together, laughing, drinking, having fun. Thank you for your podcast. It brings me joy. Thank you for what you've given us and I look forward to listening again in 2026. Happy New Year. Buon Natale from Australia.
31:42 Speaker 01 Oh, she sounds like.
31:42 Jessie Ware? Nina, you're great.
31:44 Speaker 01 She sounds like she's in Neighbours.
31:45 Jessie Ware? What does Buon Natale mean?
31:47 Speaker 01 Happy New, Happy Christmas in Italian.
31:50 Jessie Ware? Oh, okay.
31:50 Speaker 01 Buon Natale.
31:52 Jessie Ware? Does it?
31:53 Speaker 01 Yes.
31:53 Jessie Ware? Oh, okay.
31:54 Speaker 01 Why don't you trust me on that one?
31:56 Jessie Ware? She was an Australian.
31:57 Speaker 01 I'm a bit of a linguist, darling.
31:58 Jessie Ware? Okay. Oh, yeah, we found that out in Peru. Um, uh, Nina, I love you and your tradition.
32:07 Speaker 01 Do you think she is in Neighbours?
32:09 Jessie Ware? Maybe we should all move to Australia because.
32:11 Speaker 01 Just have that seafood on the barbie. Yeah.
32:15 Jessie Ware? That sounds heaven.
32:16 Speaker 01 I know. Just out on the terrace in the sun, seafood on the barbie. It'd be gorgeous.
32:23 Jessie Ware? I think Home and Away are gonna call you up and say, we need a cameo from Winnie.
32:27 Speaker 01 Get a gig in Australia next Christmas, darling.
32:30 Jessie Ware? I know, that's what I'm thinking.
32:31 Speaker 01 We'll do podcasts there.
32:33 Jessie Ware? On the dick.
32:34 Speaker 01 On the dick.
32:34 Jessie Ware? I love the idea of a glazed ham.
32:38 Speaker 01 A glazed ham on the, on the dick?
32:40 Jessie Ware? Um, I'm not taking the piss out of your accent. I just love your accent. And I love the idea of your Boxing Day. I think it's better than our miserable, bloody gra- I'm going to Millwall and you're doing a bloody barbecue, Nina. I think you've got the right idea.
32:54 Jessie Ware? Oh, love Mina. Let's go to Lucy in London. Hi Jessie, hi Lennie. I'm hosting Christmas this year for the first time, which is really exciting. But my current concern is I have a really small oven and I'm worried that not everything is going to be able to fit in the oven and be cooked at the same time to serve. So is there any dishes that you guys know that I can do on the hob instead of the oven? Or do you have any of your best tips and tricks on how to make oven space work best at Christmas?
33:23 Speaker 01 Wow.
33:24 Jessie Ware? Okay.
33:24 Speaker 01 Darling, John Gregory Smith cooked his turkey the day before.
33:28 Jessie Ware? I'm still not sure about.
33:29 Speaker 01 No, I think it's okay. He carved it all.
33:31 Jessie Ware? Okay, Lucy, this isn't going to help you this Christmas because this is Christmas Eve.
33:37 Speaker 01 Yeah.
33:37 Jessie Ware? However, I think you can do loads of things and freeze them and then you can reheat them on the, um, on the hob. Um, so I would do your red cabbage ahead of time.
33:50 Speaker 01 Gravy.
33:51 Jessie Ware? And then you put it in a Ziploc bag and flatten it down. So it's almost like putting a sheet of food into your freezer. You can do extra gravy. You can do, um.
34:02 Speaker 01 Bread sauce?
34:03 Jessie Ware? No, I wouldn't do bread sauce. I do your stuffing. Look, I would also delegate. I would ask somebody else to maybe bring the roast potatoes like I'm going to do with my mum. My, she's doing the parsnips, somebody else is doing the carrots. I think you are still hosting and cooking Christmas dinner if you're doing the turkey. And a lot of the trimmings, but you don't have to do it all. And the small oven is the most annoying thing in the world. Um, on the hob, yeah, you could reheat your cabbage. You can do, you could do not oven roasted carrots. And you could just kind of glaze them in butter and sugar and a bit of lemons, um, oranges.
34:38 Speaker 01 Do that in your frying pan, yeah.
34:40 Jessie Ware? They don't need to be roasted. Brussels sprouts you could steam. And then you could maybe do in a pan, like if you wanted to kind of make them a bit more buttery, you could fry them up.
34:49 Speaker 01 Roast a sprout, would you?
34:50 Jessie Ware? Yeah, we have it in our cookbook.
34:52 Speaker 01 Oh.
34:52 Jessie Ware? I love a roasted sprout.
34:55 Speaker 01 There you go.
34:56 Jessie Ware? You can do a lot of the kind of sides. Look, you're gonna need the oven for the roast potatoes, the parsnips, or my friend does a parsnip puree. So you could do that instead. The bread sauce can go on the hob. It's a bugger, but also remember your turkey needs to rest. So you can always reheat. So you could do your roast potatoes and your roast carrots and parsnips the day before, and then you could reheat. Is that a weird idea?
35:20 Speaker 01 You're becoming a food agony aunt.
35:23 Jessie Ware? Yeah, I am. But I guess this is what this episode is.
35:25 Speaker 17 Hi, Jessie. Hi, Lennie. My name's Mikey Garcia. I'm a long time listener, first time caller. My question for the both of you, if you could create a holiday cocktail that's designed by you, that represents who you are as a person, what would be in it? What's its name? You know, I'm gonna give you guys some ideas. Uh, maybe, uh, what's your pleasure spritz? These lips margarita, or my personal favorite, the freak me now dirty martini.
35:53 Jessie Ware? Ooh.
35:54 Speaker 17 Anyways, love your podcast, big fan. Um, and always remember, feliz navidad.
36:01 Speaker 01 I haven't sung that yet, yes.
36:03 Jessie Ware? Mikey, oh, you really do listen. Go on, give the listeners a feliz navidad.
36:09 Speaker 01 Feliz navidad.
36:11 Jessie Ware? You sound like you've had a stroke.
36:14 Jessie Ware? Just so you know.
36:15 Speaker 01 Shut up, I did Spanish GCSE.
36:17 Jessie Ware? Oh, oh, here we go.
36:19 Speaker 01 Yeah.
36:20 Jessie Ware? Bon Natale.
36:21 Speaker 01 Yeah, bon, bon, bon.
36:23 Jessie Ware? Oh, shut up. Um, and, um.
36:26 Speaker 01 Frohlich war ich nach.
36:27 Jessie Ware? Oh, God.
36:28 Speaker 01 For our German listeners.
36:30 Jessie Ware? I don't think we've got a.
36:31 Speaker 01 Joya Noel, or Happy Christmas.
36:35 Jessie Ware? Merry crumbay.
36:36 Speaker 01 Merry crumbay for Danander.
36:38 Jessie Ware? Um, okay, so Mikey, that was really fab. Thank you for the three cocktails, um, for me. And I think Lennie's would be.
36:48 Speaker 01 It's Christmas darling.
36:49 Jessie Ware? Oh.
36:50 Speaker 01 It's a Christmas darling cosmos.
36:52 Jessie Ware? I mean, how would you make it more Christmasy a cosmos?
36:55 Speaker 01 I'd just stick a piece of cinnamon stick on the top.
36:57 Jessie Ware? Would that work?
36:58 Speaker 01 No.
37:00 Speaker 01 Not really.
37:01 Jessie Ware? Star anise.
37:02 Speaker 01 Star anise.
37:03 Jessie Ware? That's a good idea, Al.
37:04 Speaker 01 Do you think?
37:05 Jessie Ware? Yeah.
37:06 Speaker 01 Maybe we get an Uzo with a star anise in it, because it's all kind of.
37:11 Jessie Ware? When do you ever drink Uzo?
37:13 Speaker 01 Never.
37:13 Jessie Ware? So, let's not start.
37:14 Speaker 01 I'm being imaginative.
37:17 Jessie Ware? You know what? We did cocktails. We tried to make vermouth happen for our guests at a Christmas drinks party.
37:23 Speaker 01 Why?
37:24 Jessie Ware? Because we have a vermouth bar in Nunhead, which is so charming and brilliant, and they make a lethal dirty martini as well. And we went in there and I think me and Sam had had a vermouth at like Mountain, the restaurant, Thomas Parry's restaurant. We were like, are we going to make vermouth happen this Christmas? So we were like, we're going to give people vermouth. Nobody drank it. So we still have so much vermouth. So.
37:46 Speaker 01 I love vermouth.
37:47 Jessie Ware? Me too. But I guess I do something to use the vermouth. I've also, very luckily, on my rider, I've put, you put ridiculous things sometimes on your rider. Things, okay, so not ridiculous, but I have like a bottle of Bollinger or Don Julio nineteen forty-two.
38:05 Speaker 01 What is Don Julio?
38:06 Jessie Ware? It's a very overpriced tequila that I don't want to buy, but if somebody else wants to buy it for me on my rider, sure. I've now got like six bottles of it. So I think everyone's going to have to just drink neat tequila. But yeah, I need to use up my vermouth, so I'd probably do some kind of Negroni. Laura Jackson does one with like, a cherry in it, like cherry syrup, which looks really lovely. And so that sounds really delicious.
38:29 Speaker 01 I like a champagne cocktail at Christmas.
38:31 Jessie Ware? I could have a champagne kisses.
38:33 Speaker 01 Yeah.
38:33 Jessie Ware? Cocktail, can't I?
38:34 Speaker 01 Champagne kisses cocktail.
38:35 Jessie Ware? Okay.
38:35 Speaker 01 And you could put a cherry in that.
38:37 Jessie Ware? Thank you, Mikey. That was great. Mum, would you like a nibble of a Christmas tart?
38:41 Speaker 01 Delicious, darling.
38:43 Jessie Ware? I'm sorry, this is a great tart.
38:44 Speaker 01 How did you pick yours up? Mine's a bit.
38:46 Jessie Ware? Just kind of shoving it in.
38:48 Speaker 01 Shoving it in? Can't even get it up, as the actress said.
38:53 Jessie Ware? Calm down.
38:57 Speaker 01 Mmm.
38:58 Jessie Ware? Delicious.
38:59 Speaker 01 Don't this year.
39:06 Jessie Ware? Oh God.
39:09 Jessie Ware? Do you wanna do a cracker?
39:12 Jessie Ware? Come on.
39:14 Speaker 01 Oh.
39:15 Jessie Ware? Oh. Fab.
39:17 Speaker 01 What is it?
39:17 Jessie Ware? It's a high end.
39:19 Speaker 01 It's Eiffel Tower.
39:20 Jessie Ware? No, I'm Mr Neil Clipper.
39:24 Jessie Ware? Yeah, sure. Exactly. Eiffel Tower?
39:30 Speaker 01 Still in Paris, darling. Let's do the motto. I'll do the joke.
39:34 Jessie Ware? Okay, do the joke.
39:35 Speaker 01 Oh, they haven't got... Oh, they've got finish this song.
39:39 Jessie Ware? Okay.
39:39 Speaker 01 Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day...
39:43 Jessie Ware? You gave it away.
39:44 Speaker 01 That's it. True or false, the first Christmas crackers were made in the UK?
39:49 Jessie Ware? True, because I've never seen one in America. True?
39:53 Speaker 01 Well, it doesn't say the... Oh, wait, it doesn't say the word, whether it is. Right. Joke. What falls but never gets hurt?
40:04 Jessie Ware? Is it a joke?
40:05 Speaker 01 Yeah. Snow.
40:08 Jessie Ware? That's not a joke. That's a riddle.
40:11 Speaker 01 Who am I?
40:12 Jessie Ware? And I'm gonna do that in my...
40:12 Speaker 01 I don't get that.
40:14 Jessie Ware? That is not funny. Is that funny? That's shit. Merry Christmas, everyone. We'll see you next week for a New Year's Eve episode.
40:25 Speaker 01 Don't get too tired. Enjoy your wrapping. Go and sit down now and have a nice Baileys and watch a Christmas film and relax before the big day.
40:35 Jessie Ware? Merry Christmas, everyone. And thank you so much to everyone who sent in messages and videos. We love hearing from you.
40:42 Speaker 01 Love it.
40:42 Jessie Ware? You're the most gorgeous people and we hope you all have a very, very special day.
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