Last night was a late one and we have two shows today
and I'm starving, so I'm off to Pret.
It's my go-to food place.
If a city doesn't have a Pret or a Waterstones, I start to panic
and luckily Milton Keynes has both,
and Pret is quite close to the theatre.
I'm just getting ready for the warm up, which is why I look like I'm out of an 80s fitness video,
but I have this sweet tin, that I was given by Sean Williamson
on my first night and I added a bunch of my own sweets to it
and during the interval I take it round to a few rooms
just to see if anybody wants some sweets
and bless him, Andy Hockley, who plays Grandpa Pots, who looks like this
he just came in and gave me this
a massive bag of sweethearts, nerds, laffy taffy and gobstoppers.
He gave it to me to refill the tin, bless his heart!
Oh, [sings] made my day!
[vocalising]
[instrumental music]
Whoops.
Second act has just begun and I cannot stop sneezing.
I think I like breathed in a lot of hairspray at the beginning of the show.
I always have a little bit of panic at this point in the show cause I've got my solo song coming up called 'Lovely, Lonely Man'.
I just convince myself I'm gonna be really crap, and then because I've convinced myself I'm gonna be crap, I am crap because I can't stop thinking about it
If i just relaxed and chilled out, it would come out the way I wanted it to.
Ooh! Don't have a mint and then water, life advice.
It's the interval and I'm about to take the sweet tin round to next door.
Next door to me is Matt Gillett who plays the Child Catcher
and as I walked past, everyone's in his room
so I'm gonna go and share the sweetness!
[instrumental music]
[laughing]
Thanks very much!
[instrumental music]
I bought a dress from Apricot clothing today that I'm wearing now, absolutely lovely dress
but I put it on, really pleased with myself, sat down and went, "Ow!"
and then pulled that from underneath me, look at that!
It's half a security tag. They took out the big bit and left the stabby bit in my dress!
Anyway in one of my last videos I said I would pick three people from the comments from the video
to send postcards to whilst I'm in Milton Keynes
and what you had to do was tell me a word that you really like.
So, I have picked three words.
The first word is from someone called "Mirandapanda" on YouTube and the word is "indubitably"
its just a term of agreement, it just means certainly
It's in Mary Poppins and Dick van Dyke says it as Bert.
The second word is from someone called 'LostInNarnia' and the word is "pulchritudinous" - I think I pronounced that right,
and it's just a way to describe someone who is breathtakingly beautiful.
Now, this third word is from someone called 'Walks as Elk'
and it's a word that I've never heard of before,
definitely will not be able to pronounce
and it's from a language, that when I googled, it linked me back to this comment on my own video.
the word is "xotzaxolotl" which means walking fish of death in the Balamunari language
I have been in "Chitty" playing Truly Scrumptious for two whole weeks now
and so many of you have been sending me questions on Twitter, and Tumblr and YouTube
so I thought I would reply to a few of them here.
"How is the vibe at Chitty diffferent to the vibe at Les Mis?"
Well, no one dies in this show, so the audience is a hell of a lot happier
I have 2 really quick changes in this show
the first one is changing from this costume here
into my 'doll in a music box' costume
which is quite intricate, it comes with tights, it's like a big skirt, and a big long sleeved dress that comes all the way up to here,
high heeled shoes,
but the biggest thing with that change is whilst I'm getting into my costume
there's a wiggy called Annie, or sometimes it's Ness, who are putting my hair up into a wig cap
then a wig
and then a hat
and then I've also gotta put rosy cheeks on and bright red lipstick on
but then my second and even quicker change
is getting out of that costume and back into this costume
for the bows.
They is fast.
I was in my dressing room in Les Mis
when I found out I got the part
and I had, I cried, I cried
because this show is so sentimental to me
and knowing that I was gonna play the adult in another show I'd been in when I was a kid
it was just so overwhelming and the first thing I did was ring my mum.
My favourite prop
is this
it's my Toots Sweets umbrella.
Q: Even though it' a stage show, do you still have dogs in the sweet factory scene?
We do
but not in the way you may think.
It's very, very cleverly done.
You'll find out if you watch the movie
or come see the show.