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An Authentic Influencer Before The Internet The Legendary Twiggy · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: It's not just a podcast. It's a podcast network. That
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  Speaker 1: was my vision in 2010, to create a network where
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  Speaker 1: you had the power of choice and owned it like
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  Speaker 1: you live it every day. Arrow.net, A-R-R-O-E.net. One of the
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  Speaker 1: is Alexa from Amazon. You're having the conversations, but do
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  Speaker 1: they go as deep as these two? Only on Arrow.net, A-R-R-O-E.net.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, thank you. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm very excited to share a conversation with you
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  Speaker 1: because I've experienced this documentary and I want to take
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  Speaker 1: it on tour. And the reason why is because you
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  Speaker 1: are the true example of what an influencer is because
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  Speaker 1: you lived it, you thought about it, you brought it
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  Speaker 1: to life, you were doing things without the internet, you
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  Speaker 1: were really putting the gut and the energy into the
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  Speaker 1: process of making lives connect.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, thank you. I mean, it was... As you
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  Speaker 2: saw in the documentary, a lot of it wasn't planned.
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  Speaker 2: When the whole thing happened to me in 1966, I
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  Speaker 2: was as much surprised as the rest of the world
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  Speaker 2: because in that era, models didn't look like me. And
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  Speaker 2: so when the whole thing kind of happened, I was very,
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  Speaker 2: very surprised.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're the very reason why my mother used to
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  Speaker 1: tell me all the time to look like Twiggy. Just
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  Speaker 1: be you. Be you. Go out there and do you
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  Speaker 1: like Twiggy would do. And you were such a major
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  Speaker 1: part of my life, my entire journey.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's so sweet. Oh, that's lovely. Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: The really cool thing about the documentary is the fact
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  Speaker 1: that I feel like it's the Rick Nelson song. Went
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  Speaker 1: to a garden party and everybody was there. They are
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  Speaker 1: in this documentary. And I found that to be so
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  Speaker 1: fascinating and such a great way to showcase who you are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I did. Sadie Frost, who directed it,
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  Speaker 2: found some amazing clips of me with Sonny and Cher
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  Speaker 2: in the probably about 1967. And Steve McQueen's in that
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  Speaker 2: clip as well. And I've been lucky enough to work
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  Speaker 2: with extraordinary people through my life and career.
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  Speaker 1: One of the most fascinating things about you is when
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  Speaker 1: you decided to go into having a talk show. And
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  Speaker 1: I found that to be very inquisitive in the way
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  Speaker 1: that it was almost like you became the student to
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  Speaker 1: learn from other people. You were always so inquisitive with
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  Speaker 1: other people.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I find other people's lives and their careers, as
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you do, fascinating. Yep, yep. And I do this,
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  Speaker 2: which is how the doc you came about. I do
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  Speaker 2: a podcast in England called Tea with Twiggy, and I
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  Speaker 2: have either friends or people in the business or people
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  Speaker 2: that I admire come on and talk to me. And
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  Speaker 2: although it's kind of an interview, it turns into really
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  Speaker 2: a chat, really, and I've And I find it fascinating
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  Speaker 2: finding out why people do things and, you know, how
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  Speaker 2: they got into the career they got into, which I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure you do. You talk to people all the time
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  Speaker 2: and it's always a fascinating journey and everyone's story is different.
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  Speaker 1: And yet it's so in common in many different areas,
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  Speaker 1: especially when it comes to, you know, sharing the journey
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  Speaker 1: and learning to listen because you are a listener. Where
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  Speaker 1: did you learn that art from?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm a good chatter as well. I
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  Speaker 2: think sometimes my husband says I chat too much sometimes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you a question about your podcast,
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  Speaker 1: only because I'm really into tea. And so tea with Twiggy,
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  Speaker 1: does that mean I can bring some kombucha since that
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  Speaker 1: is ancient tea? Would that still qualify me of being
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  Speaker 1: a visitor?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, 100%.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't move. There's more with Twiggy coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: The documentary is going to blow you away. Twiggy, we
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  Speaker 1: are back. What is it like for you, though, to
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  Speaker 1: step back? Because the one thing that I've always learned
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  Speaker 1: about you is the fact that you seem to be
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  Speaker 1: a present in the now kind of person, that it's
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  Speaker 1: about the now. And yet here's this documentary that gives
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  Speaker 1: us a photograph of somebody who shaped what has become
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  Speaker 1: our now.
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  Speaker 2: That's interesting. I do live in the now 100 percent,
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  Speaker 2: I think. You know, I don't really think about the
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  Speaker 2: 60s until I'm interviewed about it. I don't think about...
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  Speaker 2: I'm very proud of a lot of the stuff I've done,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't get up in the morning and think, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it was so wonderful. You know, I don't live in
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  Speaker 2: the past because I think that would be sad and
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  Speaker 2: it would... It wouldn't make me happy. I'm very much
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  Speaker 2: of a forward thinker. I love doing new projects. I'm
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of doing a new album with a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful singer-songwriter called Amy Wodge, who co-wrote Thinking Out Loud
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  Speaker 2: with Ed Sheeran. And she's an incredibly talented young lady.
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  Speaker 2: And we met on my podcast, funnily enough. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: a big fan of her music. And she said, well,
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  Speaker 2: let's get in the studio. And now we're doing this
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  Speaker 2: album together, which I'm really excited about. So I kind
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  Speaker 2: of live by what I'm doing at the time, really.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we just had a really lovely tour in
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  Speaker 2: New York and L.A. launching the docu. And I've met
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  Speaker 2: some amazing people and we've had lovely feedback and we
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  Speaker 2: had a couple of really great screenings. And so it's
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  Speaker 2: been a very happy trip. And we got back late
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  Speaker 2: last night and I slept for 12 hours.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. What is that like? I need a
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  Speaker 1: book just on how to sleep for 12 hours. I
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  Speaker 1: may get three or four, but not 12. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 2: And that's without any alcohol or anything. I was so zonked.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: So now going into the studio to record music today,
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that listeners don't understand is how
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  Speaker 1: icy cold it is all the time in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel it differently today when you're recording music
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  Speaker 1: in the way of going, but where we plant this,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a warm day for somebody else?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I... Quite honestly, the album I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: with Amy, we're doing, she lives in Wales, you know,
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  Speaker 2: which is part of the UK. And she's got a
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  Speaker 2: little studio within her house. Wow. So it's very relaxed.
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  Speaker 2: It's very, it's like, you know, I go to her house.
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  Speaker 2: I spend time with her family and her kids. And
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  Speaker 2: then we go into the studio and she's the main writer.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of throw in little bits and pieces of
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  Speaker 2: ideas I've had. And then she's amazing. She writes these
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  Speaker 2: wonderful songs and then we go in and record them.
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  Speaker 2: So it's very relaxed. It's very laid back and nice
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  Speaker 2: and warm, actually.
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  Speaker 1: Now, with the documentary, one of the things that's fascinating
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  Speaker 1: is that it feels like that we're all talking to
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  Speaker 1: the future generations. And do you see this as being
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  Speaker 1: a dear future reader or a dear future person in
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  Speaker 1: the way of saying you don't have to live here?
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  Speaker 1: Just know how you got here. Because I felt so
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  Speaker 1: rejuvenated after I saw this. Because it's like, oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: it's no longer about the magazines. It's no longer about
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  Speaker 1: the books. I actually heard her voice. And I got
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  Speaker 1: to see her. Do you think it's a dear future reader?
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  Speaker 2: I hope so. And I hope it speaks to a
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  Speaker 2: lot of young girls. I think it's quite a difficult
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  Speaker 2: time to be young at the moment. I think I
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  Speaker 2: was fortunate enough. living in a period where really, if
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  Speaker 2: you wanted to do something, if you had a go,
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  Speaker 2: you could try most things. I've got so many friends.
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  Speaker 2: And then London was a big kind of explosion in
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  Speaker 2: the 60s of amazing people who came out. It was
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  Speaker 2: very okay to be working class because before me in England,
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  Speaker 2: the models all came from kind of, you know, middle
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  Speaker 2: class and upper class families. They weren't, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: opened the doors to so many people. And, and also
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  Speaker 2: I think as you saw in the doc, I went
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  Speaker 2: into things that I'd never planned to do. And I was,
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  Speaker 2: I was scared. I was nervous, but I kind of
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  Speaker 2: held my nose and jumped in and working with amazing people.
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  Speaker 2: And I trusted them and, And I think in a
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  Speaker 2: way you've got to kind of try and follow your dreams.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's harder today with social media because there's
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  Speaker 2: so much out there. And I think young people, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's tricky from the ones I've talked to. But I
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  Speaker 2: hope they enjoy this docu. I think it might give
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  Speaker 2: them a kind of little kind of push into doing...
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  Speaker 2: And believing in yourself, really, because, you know, I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: like anybody else. It shouldn't have happened to me, really.
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  Speaker 1: Right. You've got to come back to this show any
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  Speaker 1: time in the future. The door is always going to
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  Speaker 1: be open for you, Twiggy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: You be brilliant today, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.