00:00This time around, with my two kids, it was like, it was an eye-opener even for me.
00:06That is next level hard, and I love hard. I love hard.
00:11If you want to do something that bad, you will find a way to do it.
00:16Let's get into it, because I've got a chip on my shoulder about this.
00:18Geordie stories, Charlotte, mum of two. I'm a dad of two.
00:22What possessed you to want to go through that on camera
00:26during that level of the exhaustion, the arguments, everything?
00:30So where's this idea come from? Why?
00:31It is hard. It is hard. It just was like a follow-on from the first show.
00:35I don't think I realised, going into it, exactly what it was going to be like.
00:41And there was lots of moments throughout filming where I was kind of like,
00:47I have never had this happen, filming any show.
00:51I'm an open book. I am so laid back.
00:55There is never a point at which I feel like I'm having to think about things,
00:59or really step in and saying, no, I don't think we should do that,
01:04I don't want to do that, or really overthink everything.
01:09I've never done that, because quite frankly, I don't really care.
01:13But when it comes to me, I am an open book.
01:16I'll show whatever, and that's just how I've been
01:19since the day I came out of the womb, I think.
01:22But this time around, with my two kids, it was like, it was an eye-opener even for me.
01:30There was times at which I kind of found myself lying in bed thinking,
01:35oh, I'm really worried.
01:37The kids didn't film all the time.
01:38They're not in the show consistently.
01:41Say, for example, when we've all been on holiday together,
01:43you'll see a lot of the holiday, and they're there then.
01:45But there's lots of the show where it's just me at work,
01:48or me and Jake, or me and my mum, and it's not always the kids.
01:51But even in them short bits that the kids were involved in,
01:55I found myself lying in bed at night thinking,
01:58oh, I really would like to watch that back just to check.
02:01Do you know what I mean?
02:01And I've never felt that, whatever.
02:03I mean, you've been in the public eye now for like 14, 15 years.
02:0715.
02:07So that's a hell of a lot of time on camera,
02:10and you've seen the good and the bad on both sides of it,
02:12and what it's like to be in the public eye.
02:14So kind of when your kids are involved in that,
02:18you will know all the good and all the bad
02:20and all the things to be scared of.
02:22And I kind of, I can imagine you'd lose some sleep over,
02:25kind of projecting that onto them and what that would mean.
02:28Yeah, oh, yeah, you lose a lot of sleep.
02:29They're never doing anything bad, right?
02:32They're fully clothed.
02:34You know there's a lot of things going around at the minute.
02:36They're always fully clothed,
02:38or they're in their swimsuits on holiday.
02:39They're running around like what two-year-olds do,
02:43and in actual fact, they're being really funny,
02:45because I've watched the first two episodes,
02:47and they're just being typical bloody two-year-olds.
02:51Like, there's one scene where Alba's found a bolt of pseudocrem,
02:55and she's, it's everywhere,
02:57and me and me mama running after her,
02:59and we're like, and it's funny.
03:00And I think, looking back,
03:02if, as an adult, I would be like,
03:03that is so funny, I can't believe I was like that.
03:06I think when it starts to get a little bit like,
03:09oh, I'm not really, I feel a bit embarrassed about that,
03:13is when they start to become like five, six, seven.
03:16Yeah.
03:16Do you see what I mean?
03:17And the form and the kind of the sense of identity
03:20and personality and stuff.
03:21Yeah, yeah.
03:21I had the exact same pseudocrem incident,
03:24like, literally a week ago.
03:25It's a typical thing, isn't it?
03:26Yeah, yeah.
03:26And I think everyone can relate to it,
03:27and everyone thinks it's really funny.
03:29And I know if she was to look back at that,
03:31she would laugh.
03:32She would actually,
03:33she would probably love to watch
03:35all of the things she got to do when she was a baby.
03:37Yeah.
03:38Because on these shows,
03:39we're travelling to Australia.
03:41Like, and when I tell it,
03:41there's so much telling someone the stories
03:43and showing pictures,
03:44but to actually be able to see footage
03:46of, like, all of us out in Australia
03:48for the first time,
03:49with our tiny baby sister,
03:51like, how funny she was with her nana
03:52when I was at work.
03:54Like, she loved that,
03:55and I would have loved to see that.
03:56I would have loved it.
03:57My nana sadly passed away now,
03:58and I was so close to her.
03:59To think if I had footage of me and her
04:02when I was a tiny baby,
04:03to cherish and look back on,
04:05oh my God,
04:05that would be worth its weight in gold.
04:08You can't even put a price on that.
04:09But I do think that there's an age
04:11where you have to stop.
04:15And I don't ever want to put the girls
04:16in a position where
04:17they haven't had that choice.
04:19So I do think 100% there will be a time
04:23in which I won't possibly do reality shows
04:28about my life with the kids involved
04:30until they get to an age where they're like,
04:32do you know what, Mum?
04:33I think I would love to do that.
04:34Do you know what I mean?
04:35I was going to say,
04:36like, if you've had so much experience
04:38and success in this area,
04:40what would your kind of guidance
04:41and advice be to them
04:43when they kind of approach adulthood
04:45and if they were interested
04:47in kind of carving a career out
04:49in this kind of world?
04:50Well, I'll always tell my kids
04:51from a very young age
04:53that literally anything is possible.
04:58Like, there is absolutely no, like,
05:02limits in this life
05:04to what you can do,
05:06what you can be,
05:07and what you can achieve.
05:08If you want to do something that bad,
05:11you will find a way to do it.
05:13There's just so much out there now.
05:16Like, there's so many jobs.
05:17And I am, I don't look down on any of these.
05:20I went in the jungle once in Australia
05:22and they were all slagging off influences.
05:24And I was like, I've got a brand.
05:26I've got a fashion brand.
05:28Without influences
05:29and without proper style influences
05:31and fashion influences,
05:32like, I wouldn't thrive as much as I do
05:35because that's like,
05:37these people have jobs in,
05:39they're like your average person stylist.
05:41So, you know,
05:43not everyone can afford
05:44to have a stylist to be dressed.
05:46But, you know,
05:47like my friends
05:48who all have normal jobs,
05:50they look at people like that
05:51to get fashion ideas.
05:53Do you know what I mean?
05:53Like, all of,
05:54all of these people,
05:56they are,
05:57they do benefit everyone
05:58in some kind of way.
06:00Do you still have the same kind of hunger
06:01and excitement
06:01for like making television
06:02and making these programs
06:03as you used to?
06:04And what's,
06:05what's kind of the next step?
06:07What's the next like,
06:08itch to scratch?
06:10I absolutely love TV.
06:11It's my favourite thing
06:12in the whole entire world.
06:14Like I,
06:14from a young age,
06:16I've always,
06:17when we first ever,
06:18got our first ever camera phone,
06:20we always made funny videos
06:21and like love to like,
06:23make up all these stuff.
06:24So I love it.
06:25I absolutely love TV.
06:27I love thinking of formats of TV too,
06:30which I've got so many in my head.
06:32Like it'll always be
06:33a massive passion of mine.
06:34Maybe not the reality side,
06:35but I do have other things
06:36on the bucket list.
06:37Like it would be great to do,
06:39I'm a Celebrity,
06:40the English version.
06:41It would be great to do Strictly.
06:43I mean,
06:44I always wanted to do
06:44Dancing on Ice,
06:45but that's finished now.
06:46Like there's so many things
06:48that I would love to do.
06:49Like love to do
06:50little TV show wise.
06:52But for me,
06:53at the minute,
06:54I have,
06:55obviously I had kids.
06:56So it went a little bit quiet for us
06:58because when you're pregnant
06:59and you first have a baby,
07:00you're not going to get us
07:00to do a lot of things.
07:02You've done the energy
07:03to do a lot of things.
07:04Exactly.
07:05But in that meantime,
07:07I've been slowly building
07:08my business,
07:09which is Pepper Girls Club.
07:10And that is really,
07:13really snowballing
07:14and it's really important
07:15for me now
07:16to build a brand.
07:18I've done it all by myself.
07:20I've not had any investment.
07:21I don't have any business partners.
07:23It is literally me,
07:24my mum
07:25and a very small team.
07:26Me and my mum
07:27picking parcels,
07:28but we are building it
07:29to be something really great
07:31and that's really
07:32a soul drive of mine.
07:34Like it's so,
07:35it's so easy
07:35to have a podcast.
07:36It's so easy
07:37to get us to do a TV show
07:38and just do it.
07:39But try building a business.
07:41Wow.
07:42That is next level hard
07:45and like,
07:45and I love hard.
07:46I love hard.
07:47I want to prove to people
07:48that I can,
07:49that I can do it.
07:51And like on this journey,
07:53I've had the door slammed
07:53in my face a lot of times
07:54by investors,
07:56by accountants
07:57who've been like,
07:57this is never going to succeed.
07:59And it's just given us
08:00so much drive
08:01to be like,
08:02you just watch me build
08:03one of the biggest
08:04home fashion brands
08:06that like
08:06has even
08:07came to England
08:09and I'll do it
08:10and I will do it.
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