Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum

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And I like the idea of having lots of children in the house but then you’ve got to look after them, haven’t you? In 2019, Beaumont returned to the Edinburgh Festival with her show Space Mam, [27] which she also took on tour in the UK. Lucy: Jed Mercurio tweeted he liked the show so we instantly messaged him. Then Georgia Tennant, who is a darling, liked a couple of my tweets and said she was a fan. If anyone shows any interest, we write something for them.

Most of her work is as herself (Lucy Beaumont's mother) in UKTV's Meet The Richardsons. She has also appeared alongside Jon Richardson in his show, on Richardson: Take My Mother-In-Law. Her first gig was on the competition, So You Think You're Funny, where she finished a finalist. From there, she presented a BBC documentary Welcome to Hull - City of Culture 2017 and also narrated Hull's Headscarf Heroes. Famous husband, children and traumatic childbirth story Their Channel 4 panel show Odd Couples, in which Beaumont and Richardson pit two celeb couples against each other, builds on that with their charming squabbles at the heart of the humour. But Taskmaster might be the first time a lot of their fans will get to know Beaumont on her own – despite the fact she was an acclaimed actor, comedian and writer long before she got married. Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont on season four of Meet the Richardsons (Photo: Vishal Sharma/Dave UKTV) Television Interview I was paralysed doing stunts on Harry Potter. It was still the best job in the world Read More

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Richardson’s role, he tells me, “is to be humiliated and look embarrassed”. Meet the Richardsons provides him with ample opportunity, as he bursts into flames at a children’s party while dressed as a monkey, or – in the new series – disappoints his comedy hero, Ben Elton. Is it right to assume his haplessness and Beaumont’s career anxiety are all exaggerated for comic effect (she has, after all, been nominated for a Bafta for her performance)? “That’s Lucy’s skill as a writer,” says Richardson. “To understand that sitcom is driven by a need. If we’re successful and happy and calm, you lose that fundamental element of comedy.” 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.” We told her she could have a How To Save Your Dragon plastic dinosaur in an egg, as a treat, because she’s been really good at school. 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.

When you Google Lucy Beaumont's name, the first search prompt that reveals itself is: 'Are Jon and Lucy really married?'. The second is: 'Is Lucy Beaumont's mum her real mum?'.Beaumont was passed over for a couple of roles, subjected to smallminded comments (“an actor’s husband said, and this crushed me, ‘You’re never going to play Juliet at the RSC with your accent’”), then told by a casting director that they were looking for comedians who could act. She’d always been told she was funny. Auditioning for TV parts, she’d accidentally turn drama into comedy: “I went to one for Casualty, an audition for this woman who’d had a horrific accident, and they were in floods of tears laughing at me.” In 2011, she decided to try stand-up for the first time.

As well as honest it is happy, sad, thoughtful, irreverent, moving,basically every emotion you can think of rolled into one joyous read On a recent trip to a toy shop to buy Elsie a special treat for doing well at school, Lucy managed to up-stage Jon.Jon: I don't think people realise how well-written and acted it is because it looks so natural. Lucy doesn't get the credit she deserves for her craft because people think they're watching two stand-ups messing about. Jon: Now we have no sex life but she’s wearing different shoes. It has footballers too. We’re next to Kalvin Phillips [of Leeds FC[ who I try to do a podcast with but never succeed. Since Gill Adams makes multiple appearances with Lucy and Jon, many have a suspicion about whether she is her real mum. Gill also appears as Lucy's mum in the hist UKTV show, Meet The RIchardsons. This read like a daily list of what happened, with frequent reminders of how tired she was which may have impacted her memory as she also mentions her famous husband, a lot.