hey it's deaf awareness week you're here with rhys and hacker and they're rapping to the beat
yo we're live on cbbc coming to your phone tablet or tv there's epic toons all over the
place and if you love drama get a smile on your mush we got we bare bears
and danger mouse and you're glad you tuned in from your home we've got rose in the house and
there's so much to do get your quizzes in we'll get answers for you because all afternoon we're
here for you so get involved here at hq ladies and gentlemen boys and girls it's rose ayling ellis
queen so how are you oh okay how are you i'm good how are you i'm good i'm glad to see you
uh first off rose hacker hacker rose hello nice to meet you yes and rose you're not alone you're
also joined by wonderful kirsty here can you tell us who is kirsty what does she do for
you so kirsty's my interpreter and what she does she's translate to make sure that i can understand
what's going on all the time yes yes she's also a kind of decent table tennis player but that's
neither here not there now rose also its deaf awareness week okay so as a deaf person what
does this week mean for you oh so deaf awareness is a good chance for hearing people to learn new
things so that whenever they meet deaf people all year round they will know what they're going to
do absolutely this is why we're so excited to have you on so we can learn more about this but
you're also a cbbc guest and no guest coming on here without some challenges so i hope you're
ready for that rose a challenge a challenge oh yeah yeah i'm ready all right good good good
but also gonna have loads of questions for you as well yes i've got one cocker yeah we've got
a fantastic question here from some of our viewers it's christian and tayla hi i'm tayla and you're
christian christian and this is my question for rose
what was it like to be the first deaf dancer on strictly come dancing
oh that's lovely so what was it like to be the first deaf dancer on strictly come dancing well there's a big question
because it was actually really nervous i was so nervous when i first came because it's never been
done before yeah yeah but then i was doing it i love it i love it because i was different from
everyone else's and i have something to show that is new well you brought a story to everyone that's
what everyone fell in love with that as well as your dancing that's why you're special that's
why you're the champion um and that's why again we can learn about as well people like kirsty
what they do and the thing is if you guys have any more questions for rose you can sign them in send
them in to the ask rose a question on the cbbc website but right now it's time for boy girl dog cat mouse
cheese wow that's really good yeah we've got some questions for you rose now we'll try and
get through as many as we can okay first one's from cute fluffy dog oh is that me no hi rose
i'm a big fan of you so i'd like to know what is your favorite pizza topping pizza topping
right so my favorite is to do tomato sauce with mozzarella cheese and some basil oh fancy spenny that spenny
she didn't like that before strictly uh sparkly fox lover says hi rose i was inspired by you
on strictly do you have any advice for children wanting to learn sign language
well i'm so i think you go online find out what is there go to your local classes and try and meet
as many deaf people as you can there you go simple as that now one thing actually that deaf people
do that we might not know is that they assign a hearing name to people so i thought a sign name
hearing no incorrect uh so what could our sign name for hacker be ok i've got
i did think of one so it's like a little dog why is that a little dog i can do it look
yay there we go that works i like that cute little hacker it means that
we've got this one from hazel fairy queen hi rose my question is are you
a cat person or a dog person i'm a very big cat person i am a cat person oh she's a cat person unbelievable
i love my cat i can teach my cat to sit i wish i could that's pretty difficult
i'm not a cat rhys send in more of your questions for rose as well on the cbbc website but right
now it's time for another show let's sign it together shall we
up next is danger mouse blue peter ugh yes we're celebrating deaf awareness week
and rose it's time for a challenge all right like dance challenge pickles sent in a dance
move wanna see if you can replicate it the best you can here we go this is my dance moves for rose
right all right here we go we can all do it look yep i like it it's like like tair chi right pose
now rhys that was a lovely looking couch nice a bit it was good now we've got some questions
as well for you rose uh first one comes in and says do you feel vibrations from the music does
that help you know when it's time to move or do you count to help you when you're on strictly
well um so really i don't really feel the vibration because it's too much distraction so
it's mostly counting in my head because it's more clear i'm all out like count count count count and
hopefully it goes well easy to focus i was focused but yeah well you won cocker so it works doesn't it hey
you should have tried it rhys yeah i did try it i'm talking of strictly though
taj just sent a question in and says hi rose apart from you who was your favorite dancer on strictly
wow has to be rhys doesn't have to be but it is that's the important thing all
right look if all right fine if it wasn't me which is who else should it be rose oh okay i
mean they're all amazing all amazing but i really love tilly we love tilly we all love tilly she
makes a great cheese toasty oh she does cocker i'm loving a ramsay bunch last one from barking puppy 11 quickly rhys hi rose
what's your favorite book to read okay book i would have to say it'd be cat in the hat oh cat in the hat
oh im sorry not again more questions coming up soon but right now it's time for a little bit of odd squad odd squad odd squad
we've got a little dance challenge right hacks we sure have got a dance challenge me old cocker
this one's been sent in by crazy cat sunglasses oh oh oh my word all right oh wow some ballet
okay okay and the finish oh that's nice that's cool okay but imagine you're on the decking
big finish flourish at the end yeah we're good at that we should be on strictly us we should we should
go on strictly you know maybe you ever thought about that maybe one day they might have us on strictly
um now some questions for you rose teal crystal penguin what's your favorite part about dance
also i love you rose and i dress up as you for comic relief since we had to be superheroes oh that's lovely
i think my favorite dance were were ballroom and i think it was the
tango yeah it was your first 40 yeah that was amazing that was amazing i was
breathless but tango is hard it's hard you don't really it's hard it sounds easy it sounds really easy that
now yasmin says hi rose would you go on to the program coronation street
oh oh oh well um i think my eastenders family would be very disappointed well can i go
on it instead then i'd make a great albert tatlock you do it i'd love that
um from surfergirl321 hi rose who was your inspiration when you were younger
oh i have many women that were inspirational to me but i think for now i think it's dolly
parton because i love how she's a feminist about being a feminist
and she just shares her messages and she's enjoying what she was doing we love us some dolly uh more
with rose but first it's time for we bare bears we've got another question for you you rose from hannah
okay hi rose was your strictly come dancing partner giovanni ever good at sign language
oh yes was he ever good at sign language well he always told me i could be better at dancing so therefore
i think he could be better at signing ha in your face giovanni yeah get better gio yeah
um from unicorn power 2000 as well they want to know
hi rose what's your favorite tv show on cbbc oh my favorite tv scooby-doo oh i love it scooby dooby doo
oh that was very good it just like fred that right okay cool i've got a question for your cocker eco
sodo says what's your favorite song favorite song well um i did say that i really liked dolly
parton earlier yeah so i would choose jolene i'll sing it for you cocker jolene jolene jolene jolene
even rose understood how bad that was think of that just rose knew classically trained rhys yeah she is fifi
the great wants to know hi rose my sister is a big fan and would like to ask what is your favorite
food my favorite food is cheese and onion crisps i can eat crisps all day long yeah a good good
old multi-pack yes i would love some cheese and onion crisps rose thank you so much for joining us for deaf
awareness week thanks for having me thank you and thank you kirsty as well thanks kirsty thanks rose
uh it's just been so great to learn about just from you a little bit great but right now here's
the deep yeah let's see yeah rhys do you want to come and have some crisps with me let's
go come on let's go kirsty um fancy some crisps you got any money here's the deep