COTTON's Blog
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snotting in LA
When you think of LA you think palm trees, sunshine and drinking cocktails by the pool. Not for me this trip!
I have spent the last two days in bed wrapped in three blankets shivering and sneezing! Im not good at having a cold ! I dont like sitting around and i especially dont like having to watch hours of american cheese ball adverts on tv whilst doing so!
I was fine at the BRITS the night before i left for LA. I had a blast that night ! The BRITS is always full of surprises and madness and it always goes too quickly for me ! It whizzes by and then your left all hyper and all dressed up with no where to go !
I thought the performances this year were incredible ! Take that in a UFO spaceship?? YES PLEASEEE!!! How gorgeous did they all look with those specs on too! Girls Aloud as showgirls with pink feathers!!!! Stunning !!! AND Kings of LEon...what can i say!!! I just flippin love them!
I was so hoping to interview the handsome kings. We captured them after they won their first award and i kept them mildly entertained for ten minutes before my next live interview was due backstage. Literally seconds before we were due on air their management dragged them away from me, the marginally stalker like fan disguised as a tv presenter! GUTTED !
BUT ...hey i got to interview the HOFF! We had an 'interesting' chat where his main focus seemed to be my dress! Then before he went on stage he asked me if he should wear his jacket buttoned or unbuttoned! Bemused by his concern i went for buttoned up for a smarter HOFF!
I was happy Girls Aloud won a BRIT and loved that they were so clearly over the moon about it ! Also Elbow who after years of slogging got their well deserved silver lady !
I thought MAtt and JAmes did a great job with Kylie! Their opening dance was stupendously brilliant ! All im saying is LEATHER LEGGINS! wow!
After the awards i skulked off home as i had an early flight the next morning and the threat of a dreaded cold looming ! As soon as i got on the plane my sneaky cold decided to show is ugly head! I was shivering one minute, sweating the next ! No amount of British Airways hot chocolate could cheer me up !
So i landed in LA thursday afternoon feeling horrendous. I thought perhaps a hot toddy would warm me up from my shivers and clear my head. Instead i got an instant whiskey sweat and had to go to bed! Yesterday is a blur as my head was still clouded with snot and sneezing (if there is such thing as man flu i have it !!) and spent most of the day in bed with short intervals of filming.
We were up at the crack of 6am to go and film with Taraji P Henson who is the great actress who plays Brad Pitss mum in Benjamin Button! We met her at her Pr ladies posh office in Hollywood and had a good old natter about dresses, jewels and all things oscars ! She is a lovely lady and i look forward to seeing which dress out of her three options she chooses for sunday !!! I have chosen a dark pink floor length Balenciaga frock with some black diamond jewels and converse underneath as no one can see my feet behind the restrictive 'dont-touch-the-movie-stars' hedge they put between us all!
Then back to bed before warming up to the fact i was going to hangout with PAris Hilton for the afternoons filming ! She didnt show up which i was a bit gutted about as i was planning a great new phone screen saver of me and her chillin together ! I also secretly wanted to meet her weird little dogs and her monkey she apparently has! SO instead we went and filmed at one of the Oscar gifting suits which is an odd concept where movie stars go to a room full of random things and they take it all home for free! You get different colour wrist bands showing your hierarchy in the celeb world to show HOW much free shit you get !! I ended up coming away with a stainless steal sharpie, a floor length coat for when ive 'been surfing!!!!' and some odd shoes you were to improve your posture!
Next it was off to the Four Seasons Hotel to interview lovely Dev Patel! If your yet to see Slumdog Millionaire, go do it now ! Its beautiful and clever! We had a nice chat on a sun lounger about how mad his life has recently become ! He is still so excited about the whole HOllywood way which is refreshing and good to see. Elton John waved at him last night which i was actually quite jealous about !
Then it was back to bed with another 100mg of vit C and a lemsip! I slept for ten whole hours and feel quite chipper this morning. Im still snotting all over the shop and sneezing but the general body ache of the cold has vanished thank goodness! I really dont want to be snotting all over Brad and Angelina, or my pink Balenciaga dress tomorrow to be honest !
The whole 2 hour LIVE show will be on SKy One tomorrow night (sunday ) at 11pm! Hopefully i get to see Mickey Rourke again!! I hope he wins the Oscar too!
So now im going to do some more research on my lap top then go and rehearse on the red carpet for a bit ! This involves random people walking up and down the carpet out side the Kodak Theatre with paper signs around their necks stating that they ARE Kate Winslette or Clint Eastwood and us presenters from all over the globe pretending to interview said fake celebs!!
Im back in blighty monday to get ready for the BIg BT rednose climb!! Its not too late to donate to Comic relief for ou climb of mount kilimanjaro! Just visit www.rednoseday.com and sponsor me !! THAnks if you already have !
Have a grand weekend Peace and Love
COTTON
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Love up the mountain
Wow there nelly its been a while! Im one hell of a lazy blogger these days!
SOOOO where to begin? Thanks once again for all your messages of support from climbing mount kilimanjaro ! We go very soon indeed and are all quite nervous about it!!
Moyles and i chat most nights on the phone discussing training tips and what we're eating. We have all thought of nothing else for months now! I hope we all get to the top and raise a mountain of cash for Comic Relief !
I had a right result the other day when i was at the gym. I was in no mood to be there and was contemplating a half arsed session. THEN god sent me a gift! The Italian national Rugby team strolled on in to my gym to train!!! They were playing at twickenham that afternoon so were in for some pre match training !!! NOTHING like this ever happens at my gym. The most exciting thing before this was getting new crosstraining machines!!! I was in that gym for two hours and loving it !!! NOTE : It is quite hard to pout whilst running and panting (i was giving it a go!!)
SO im feeling quite ready for the climb now but am still a ball of nerves about how it all goes!! If you would like to sponsor me you can visit www.rednoseday.com and click on my page ! THANKS if you already have !!! I visited Uganda before Christmas and was so shocked at the effects of maleria i witnessed. Young kids as tiny as 3 years old getting blood transfusions and painful injections to cure them of this life threatening illness!
What we plan to do is raise enough money to buy a million maleria nets! Its sounds so simple doesnt it . A NET !! A net could keep a family from ever getting maleria again ! SO even if you give us a fiver that is one family out of the hideous relentless loop of maleria!
I have also recently been filming a documentary out in march! Its my first documentary so im quite nervous about it but fingers crossed you will enjoy it,Will post more deatil about it soon!
I had alot of fun at the golden globes and the BAFTAS this year ! The line up of nominated films this year are awesome !! THe wrestler is my favorite closely followed by Slum dog millionaire ! CLASS films!!
I got to interview Mickey Rourke at the BAFTAS and he was such a legend ! We have the same tattoo artist in LA so we chatted tatts and stuff and he said i was hard core which made me melt with happiness! If only he knew i bake fairy cakes at the weekends and talk to my cats!
Im off to the Oscars in a week too to cover it for sky one ! Hope t bump into Mr Rourke again so i can feel cool for 5 seconds again!!!
Finally i hope your Friday the 13th havnt been to weird/bad and that your all geared up for vallies ! If your single or all loved up have a great day with people you love. Im off to my mate indias to bake cakes and eat them all after !!
Massive Vallies LOVE
COTTON
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Juicey
HEYYYY!
Just wanted to say a massive thanks to any of you wh watched Celebrity Juice. HOlly, Keith and i had the best time making it!
My favorite moment of the whole series was Verne Troyer being chased by Keith! A thought i might faint with joy!
Watch out for more new Celeb Juice next year!!
Also cheers loads if you donated to children in need! On the night we got around 21 mill squid!! Thats 2 million more than last year !!! SO THANKS!!!! LOads of kids will majorly benefit from this!!! It was a crazy yet fun night ! Im still pooped now!!
IM back on the chart and request show with reg at the weekends now so listen out on radio 1 from 4-7pm weekends! Drop us a text and down load the podcast at bbc.co.uk/radio1
NOw next sunday my new show is on SKY ONE. Myself and wonderful Ben Shepherd present GUinnes World records Smashed. You can see how we got on in the Human Catapult and many more records set and broken!!! Check it out!!!
Peace
COTTON
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00monday
Ohhh its been a while!
Im currently sat at my desk at radio one trying to get rid of Moyles. He has a massive love crush on my mate Holly and has just made me ring her for the second time in 7 days to ask if she would leave her husband for him!! The answer was .....surprisingly ..NO! (AGAIN!)
So since i last blogged i have been mainly living at radio 1 covering for Edith which im really enjoying. I have had the chance to interview some of my fave people on earth whilst doing this show!
First was Will Ferrel and John C Riefly, then Jack Black, and Will Smith. This month i had a lovely chin wag with Colin Farrel who was so down to earth and chilled. I went to one of those posh london hotels where they hold movie press days and headed for the room he was in. Usually there are a host of people around the star. PA's, PR's, assistants, make up etc.... Lil old Colin was all on his own! Smoking away inside with a cuppa! What a nice chap! He was chatty, funny and very chilled!
JOsh Hartnet was of course hot as can be and possibly has the lowest voice on earth! Its almost a groan or croack!
This morning i got in to work to interview someone sooo exciting! I cant say who it is...but its all very exciting and i shall reveal all on thursday when we play the interview out on radio1 !!!
I have also filmed a new sky one show recently called Guiness World record breakers smashed! Myslef and lovely Ben Shepherd and loads of crazy stunts and records being broken! Its on Sky ONE late nov ! I will post dates and times as soon as i know!
We took part in the reverse bungee (video on my page ) which was hideous in every way !!! you can find out who got the record on the show! We also had the most expensive perfume, the guy who can do the most football round the worlds in a minute and Justin HAwkins leading a massive group world record attempt! Its going tobe a really fun show!
Holly and i are still having a right laugh on Celeb Juice! Last week was obviously an interesting one. I had Katona on my team who was a little hazy shall we say and HOlly had David Gest who is one of the most bonkers peolple i have ever met! He has intvited holly and i to his new stage show which involves him dancing and singing and doing back flips!! IM THERE!!
A show i did really enjoy was French and Saunders live at Drury lane! Try get along and see it as they are so brilliant!! I laughed the whole way through and especially loved jenifer 'doing' her Madonna dance!! AMAZING!! Two legends ! Holly and i went and had what i like to call a theatre dinner, ie a box of malteasers and a bag of fruit pastels washed down with some 7up!
Joanna Lumley (WHO im boarder line obsessed with ) was 3 rows in front of me ! I wasnt sure what to do....
(i need to break off this blog quickly...a slight interlude if you will) as the mystry guest i interviewed earlier is weirdly stood behind me in the office ! HE is trying to use the side exit to escape and i am pretending to be very busy on my computer !! ahhh!! )
...and ..errr...where was i?? Yes Joanna ...so i was contemplating a tap of the shoulder follwed by
'hey i love you...errr..your my hero ...and this is all a bit creepy i guess..but..errr can we be friends?'
I bottled having a light chit chat incase we DIDNT end up swapping numbers so i could pop round for tea !! Instead i headed for the door and ended up brushing arms with her whilst holly squealed with laughter!!! I am a massive loser!
Yesterday i also did something quite unexpected! I went into my local town to buy some envelopes and ended up buying a few christmas presents!! ITS october! I have never done anything festive this early and swear im turning into my mother ! HELP!
Ok i best go prep for the show! 1-4pm . Its my last week covering for Edith then im back on the weeknds! HAppy halloween
Peace and Love
COTTON
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just seen this. yucky to colds, well done for getting up that mountain. am following you on twitter. will be watching the documentary tomorrow. x
converse under dress at the OSCARS.
ahaaa genius!
'still snotting all over the shop' - noiice!
hope yu enjoyed america and get well soon (:
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You looked SUPER gorge last night.... Pity about Brad eh.... But you did a super job interviewing! :) You'd never have guessed you were poorly sick! :) x
ho there fearne'e
yes just like the others said vit.c and lemsip... had it,.. suffer like a martyr for two whole days then gings-criven-& help ma-bob.. "were did it go"..?.. to hope that you are better for the climb watched the dancing for comic relief on saterday.b.b.c 1 cried with laughter at the attempts you should watch that on sky-plus that will soon cheer you up.. always in my thoughts
best Dundee Dave
Aww poor you, hope you recover asap! Sounds like you have the female version of man flu - bird flu!!! Have an amazing time in the states, I'm so jealous of you, hoping to go to California myself in September for a couple of weeks :-) Lots of love xxx
Fearne, you're a pure mentalist. Here, there and everywhere all at the same time. Hope you don't end up enduring Kilimanflujaro, try and find some time to pencil in a good old fashioned day in bed with some Lucozade and a colouring book. You'd be amazed.
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Get well soon hon!
Man, I would kill for just 10% of your life! It sounds so eventful!!
Hope ur cold goes 4 2morrow nite. Have a gr8 time
Hey Fearne,
Hope your cold clears up for you - I love your blogs, ur a star!!
Have a faaabulous time tomorrow - I was in Hollywood last month, did the Kodak Theatre "tour thingy" just before they shut it to prepare for the "big event!
Now all I have is memories and jetlag........I need to go back :-)
Take Care
Ellie x