Christmas Cracker - Listener Special with Joe Lycett and Nick Grimshaw

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**Jessie Ware** (0:35)
Hello, and welcome to Table Manners for our very special Christmas episode. We are gonna try and bring as much Christmas cheer as possible. Well, I know it's been quite a hefty couple of weeks.
Mum?

**Lennie Ware** (0:47)
Yes, darling, I'm right here. Oh, why is she looking at you? I was just looking at something to play for you, darling, to make you feel happy.
Well, I'm just going to play.

**Jessie Ware** (1:01)
Wow, mum, you're getting really pro. You know, you're bringing content to the table for...

**Lennie Ware** (1:17)
Stop, you with the lisp, it's killing me.

**Jessie Ware** (1:22)
I know, but you're not Spanish and so you sound like you've got a lisp. Feliz.

**Lennie Ware** (1:28)
They had it on in the nail bar yesterday.

**Jessie Ware** (1:30)
What a myth, you myth, Merry Christmas.

**Lennie Ware** (1:32)
No, they had it on the nail bar where I got Rudolph Redd on my nails, darling.

**Jessie Ware** (1:37)
I got decadence, not that it's going to be particularly decadent this year.

**Lennie Ware** (1:40)
Decadent, no, we're not having any decadence.

**Jessie Ware** (1:42)
Thank you for that beautiful intro. Yes, it is nearly Christmas. So just to help you get through the next lockdown, the next Christmas.

**Lennie Ware** (1:50)
Darling, do you think I have bought everyone Twister to play with your in-laws? Do you think that we'll be breaching COVID rules?

**Jessie Ware** (1:59)
Ask Sean Bailey, Mum, I don't know.

**Lennie Ware** (2:00)
Oh, I'll ask Sean Bailey whether they play Twister.

**Jessie Ware** (2:03)
So for this episode, we have returning guests. Still only people that have been only able to do it on Zoom, which is really sad.

**Lennie Ware** (2:11)
But they're absolute Christmas crackers.

**Jessie Ware** (2:13)
We've got Grimmy, Nick Grimshaw, and we have Joe Lycett.

**Lennie Ware** (2:18)
That's going to cheer us both up and should cheer everybody up.

**Jessie Ware** (2:21)
It feels like we started the Zoom podcasts with Grimmy, and hopefully this will be the end of them with Grimmy. So it's actually us kind of tempting fate that maybe we will break the COVID Zoom cycle by having Grimmy back on. So Grimmy's coming on, and then also we have Joe Lycett, who we also spoke to in lockdown, but has loads of stuff going on on the telly, so we'll chat to him.
And we also are including a lot of you. We had an overwhelming number of listeners that sent in messages, voice notes, emails. You are brilliant and we love you. We gave you 12 hours to come up with Christmas traditions, recipes, stories, and we were overwhelmed by the amount of messages and voice notes you sent. Thank you so much. You are amazing.
And we will be featuring some of them in the episode.
And so before Joe and Nick come on to wish you all a Merry Christmas, let's play one of the voice notes.

**Alice** (3:20)
Hi, Jessie and Lennie. Merry Christmas. My name is Alice. I'm a massive fan of your podcast. Me and my mom listen to it weekly. We live quite far away from each other, so it's how we bond. But we have been talking about Christmas this year massively. It's the first time we would have all been together in three years. So everything is revolving around food.
One of our favorite Christmas traditions is having champagne in the morning with Christards. So these are these little, they're called Rams Christards, and they are like a Swedish pastry cup. And we fill that with like scrambled egg and bacon, and then like a prawn cocktail, smoked salmon and cream cheese. And we always have them as like a little breakfast nibble with champagne before we go on to heavier things in the afternoon, like wine and cocktails and beef Wellington.
So yeah, just a little Christmas treat. You should definitely try them. They are delicious, and we always end up filling up on them before we get to the main course.
Merry Christmas. Thank you.

**Jessie Ware** (4:32)
Alice, I like your style. Also, I love the idea that Lennie has united mother and daughter through the beauty of Table Manners.