Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum

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bookstagram #bookstagramming #bookstagrammer #bookstagramuk #ukbookstagram #hereforthereads #bookish #bookworm #booknerd #bookcollector #tbr #books #booksbooksbooks #bibliophile #lucybeaumont #drinkingcustard #octopuspublishing #netgalley #newtobookstagram She briefly became a teaching assistant and when one of her first acting jobs fell through, she took on a job as a cleaner - which came to be one of her long running gags: that she was probably the only person with both a BA and an NVQ from the University of Hull. Mutch, Michael (26 December 2019). " 'Rude' University Challenge audience laugh at Lucy Beaumont's degree". Hull Daily Mail . Retrieved 29 December 2019.

Lucy: We really try to just go for laughs. We never wanted to go serious or start talking about our marriage. We’ve kept it silly. When we first did publicity for it, we said it's a documentary. We can be honest now, it's a sitcom. It's written but so much is real in it. Coldwell, Will (16 January 2015). "Comedian Lucy Beaumont on Hull". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 October 2016. It's edited so the couch scenes go on for days. It's staggering how long we can sit on a couch and argue. But there are no lengthy scenes or playing the awkward silence - it's just a setup and a gag, and then we move on. Jon Richardson's wife Lucy Beaumont reveals the strange way he proposed". Hull Daily Mail. 20 June 2018 . Retrieved 29 December 2019.Review: Lucy Beaumont: Space Mam at Pleasance". Edinburgh Festivals Magazine. 12 August 2019 . Retrieved 29 December 2019.

UKTV's Dave Channel Sets UK Premiere Date For 'Meet The Richardsons' Christmas Special". 18 November 2020. It said: “Cash-strapped, over-worked, under-appreciated… nailing it. Set in Hull, this show is about the reality of being a working class mum: juggling being broke, raising kids, working a tough job and at the end of another epic day, turning to your lifelong sisters (the ones you're born with and the ones you chose) to blow off steam. I love the honesty of the book and even as a non parent so recognise the ‘ loving I can shop in Waitrose but then wondering if I should be in Waitrose’, the author is a self confessed snob yet cant stand other snobs, something lots of us, in a completely honest moment can at least give a nod to BAFTA Television 2023: The Winners & Nominations". www.bafta.org. 16 March 2023 . Retrieved 15 May 2023. But she also feels – much to the consternation of the show’s publicist, within earshot – that Meet the Richardsons is becoming too career-focused. “The new series is too work-based,” she says. “It’s my least favourite.”

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No date has been given yet for the airing of the series Hullraisers. Who are the writers behind Hullraisers? Television Interview I was paralysed doing stunts on Harry Potter. It was still the best job in the world Read More a b "Taskmaster Series 16 line-up revealed". British Comedy Guide. 1 June 2023 . Retrieved 1 June 2023. While Lucy doesn’t think a North/South divide still exists, she admits you can be shaped by where you grow up. ‘In Hull it feels like there's a great sense of humour that comes from being in a working class town and an exciting place to be,’ she explains. ‘We’re a very small country but I am fascinated by how different areas have different attitudes. You sort of adopt that if you’re not from there. I think the more we keep saying there’s a North/South divide, the more it creates an issue. All there needs to be is better links.’ She garnered huge critical acclaim with her Edinburgh Festival Fringe runs, and was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award with her debut Edinburgh show, We Can Twerk It Out in 2014.

Beaumont, Lucy (30 September 2021). Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum. London: Octopus Publishing Group. ISBN 9781913183738.When she toured her 2014 show, interviewees constantly asked ‘Are women as funny as men?’ Beaumont says. “It got in my head. I had terrible self-doubt. It really affected me.” She changed how she presented herself. “I used to take my make-up off before I went on stage and put on a hoodie. If I didn’t, I was getting things shouted at me like ‘Get your tits out’. It just made me more and more nervous.” I loved the later setting of Hebden Bridge having lived in Bradford for 9 years and also loved the earlier home life tales from Surbiton, 2 vastly different places yet more similar than you would imagine Hullraisers is a new sitcom that will be shown across six 30-minute episodes and promises to be a laugh-out-loud exploration of the lives of three fictional Hull women. Who is the series about? Drinking Custard is a blessed relief from the current woes and uncertainties we all have and thoroughly unashamedly enjoyable

Jon: All of this series is building towards Gill and Johnny Vegas’s wedding. And the culmination of it all is one of our most engineered scenes. I was really tense that day of filming because of all we had to do. But it's a perfect scene. However, the couple have recently moved away from Hebden Bridge to a posh suburb of Leeds, and so have the fictional versions of themselves in the latest series of the show. Cameras have been trained on some iconic locations in Hull recently for the filming of a new Channel 4 sitcom.He was an older gent that lived with his elderly lover and he said ‘when she dies you can have her room’. Fletcher, Harry (16 September 2014). "Jon Richardson engaged to fellow comedian Lucy Beaumont". Digital Spy. The two met through fellow comedian Roisin Conaty and now have a daughter Elsie Louise, born in 2016. In her own book called Drinking Custard: Diary Of A Confused Mum, she confessed that when she was wheeled into theatre for an emergency C-section, she feared she would die. She was a guest on Dave's Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled in 2015 and on the BBC Two panel quiz show QI in 2016. She has been a regular guest on the Dave panel show Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier, hosted by her husband Jon Richardson, in 2018 and 2019. [26]