Lauren Cowell reveals all | No Parental Guidance
No Parental Guidance
October 5, 2026
This week, we are joined by the absolute goddess herself, Lauren Cowell! 💕 Lauren opens up about life behind the scenes with Simon, how they navigate discipline and strict manners at home, and the hilarious moment their son Eric realised his dad was famous!
Speakers Louise Boyce, Lauren Cowell, Hannah East
TopicsParentingKids & FamilyComedyComedy Interviews
Louise Boyce (0:00)
Coming up, it's X Factor coming back.
Lauren Cowell (0:02)
You know what? I've heard this rumor. I think part of the fun of it was like the really bad audition.
Louise Boyce (0:08)
Your sh**, he gets out.
Lauren Cowell (0:09)
You can't say, like you couldn't get away with that now.
Hannah East (0:18)
Oh, hi, Louise.
Louise Boyce (0:19)
Yo, yo, yo.
Hannah East (0:21)
Yo, how you doing? We've just been talking about how exhausted we are.
Lauren Cowell (0:26)
Yeah.
Hannah East (0:26)
Yeah.
Louise Boyce (0:27)
Do you ever get exhausted so much that your mouth feels like you've swallowed a battery?
Hannah East (0:31)
I wonder what you're going to say then. Not just me.
Louise Boyce (0:36)
My whole body feels electric.
Hannah East (0:38)
So not last night, the night before, I was-
Louise Boyce (0:41)
Two tomcats came knocking at my door. Sorry, do you know that little rhyme?
Hannah East (0:44)
I don't. Go and wrap it.
Louise Boyce (0:47)
Not last night, but the night before, two tomcats came knocking at my door. I opened the door to let them in and knocked them down with a rolling pin.
Hannah East (0:54)
Was that like a playground kind of-
Louise Boyce (0:56)
I guess so. I've got no idea where that came from. Yeah, maybe like skipping rope or something.
Hannah East (1:00)
It's like what we said previously on the show, where you do these little rhymes and raps and you don't know what they mean.
Louise Boyce (1:05)
Yeah.
Hannah East (1:06)
You come out with stuff and you're like-
Louise Boyce (1:07)
Then you realize you're saying something quite sexual.
Hannah East (1:09)
I would be arrested.
Louise Boyce (1:09)
Well, maybe that rap has got another meaning.
Hannah East (1:13)
Bradley said the other day, what does it mean when you say-
Louise Boyce (1:15)
Oh my God, is it about men knocking on your door? Two tomcats came knocking at my door, but then they opened the door to let them in and then basically beat them up.
Hannah East (1:24)
Oh, I mean, you could get arrested. Fair one. Whoever, there's a woman stuck right in that somewhere.
Louise Boyce (1:31)
I've got a rolling pin.
Hannah East (1:33)
Yeah.
Louise Boyce (1:33)
Do you ever use a rolling pin?
Hannah East (1:34)
I do use a rolling pin. Do you?
Louise Boyce (1:36)
What, to knock down-
Hannah East (1:37)
When I make it just to kick the out of anyone that comes to my house.
Louise Boyce (1:40)
Oh yeah, you keep knives under your pillow or something.
Hannah East (1:42)
No, not knives Louise. No, just cricket bats.
Louise Boyce (1:46)
Do you actually really still?
Hannah East (1:47)
Yeah, and I've got a crowbar.
Louise Boyce (1:49)
Yeah.
Hannah East (1:50)
I'm not joking, Louise. I'm not taking any chances, not since somebody tried to break in. They'd have hurt my little baby Jesus.
Louise Boyce (1:57)
So every night you go to bed with a cricket bat?
Hannah East (2:00)
It's just, I don't go like, night, night everyone, and then go in the cupboard and get all the hazardous weapons. No, I just put my knuckle dusters on and get into bed.
Lauren Cowell (2:11)
Oh, why are you doing that?
Louise Boyce (2:14)
Where's your crowbar?
Hannah East (2:15)
Just next to my bed.
Louise Boyce (2:17)
Not staying at your house. Well, I feel really protected.
Hannah East (2:20)
You'll be safe, Louise. You'll be safe. But it just really scared me that time when someone tried to break in. And I was like, what would I do? And I think of these scenarios, like at 2 a.m. Ridiculous scenarios. Like this morning when Annabelle came into my room at quarter to two, she was like, Mary.
And I'm like, what do you want, Annabelle? She just wants me to cuddle her.
Louise Boyce (2:39)
She wanted the crowbar.
Hannah East (2:40)
She wanted, she heard a noise outside. She took my shotgun.
But I was thinking at that point, when she comes out of her bedroom to come into our room, I'm like, what if somebody was like burgling us?
Lauren Cowell (2:54)
She's vulnerable.
Louise Boyce (2:55)
I know. I always feel really vulnerable, more vulnerable when Jesse's not there. That's when I'm like, I don't like it and I don't know why.
Yeah, I don't know and I had to pretend that he's downstairs watching TV so I can just relax and go to sleep.
Hannah East (3:10)
Like go downstairs and just check all the doors. I'm like, I'm an independent woman. I don't need a man. But Andy, will you just make sure everything's locked downstairs?
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