‘It’s not. It’s not the same.’
‘It’s just escapism. If I could walk around like Belle or Tinker Bell, I would – if they did a costume big enough.’
Then the announcer said, ‘And now a special preview.’ It was a little advert for the new Star Wars Rebels cartoon. They showed that, and then he asked, ‘Does anyone want to see more?’
And everyone was whooping and cheering, ‘Yeah!’
‘OK, you’re going to watch an exclusive episode.’
It was a half-hour episode. And my Mam started crying. We were there about eight hours. She was sobbing, ‘I can’t take it any more, I need to get out.’ But she couldn’t just sneak out then because there was high security in the theatre. So she had to watch it through tear-filled eyes.
The minute we got out, she asked, ‘Can we go now?’
We got an Uber, and the driver was saying, ‘Oh my God, you’re so lucky. I love Star Wars.’ He actually had a Star Wars air freshener hanging from his rear-view mirror.
I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, of all the Uber drivers we could have had!’
Warwick had given us these gold weekend passes that allowed you to get into everything but we were leaving the following day.
‘Do you want the passes?’ I asked the driver.
‘What?’
‘Do you want the passes?’
‘What do you mean?’
‘Well, you can have them. We’re not going to use them again, we leave tomorrow.’
‘Are you joking? I’m going to take the whole day off tomorrow. I’m going to ring my wife now and tell her the good news. Thank you so much!’ He loved it.
I just thought, it is pure fate that our Uber driver was such a massive Star Wars fan – it was meant to be. After all, it takes no effort to be kind and if you can’t be kind in Disneyland then it basically means you have no soul. As Cinderella once said:
‘Where there is kindness there is goodness;
where there is goodness there is magic.’
Chapter Twenty-one
THE TIME I WATCHED JEREMY KYLE WITH KEVIN BACON
The nineties UK classic TV show Gladiators had a total of thirty-four gladiators. Eunice ended up being a stunt double for Angelina Jolie and Rhino appeared in films such as Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Batman Begins, and Argo.
In Footloose, the actors who played the parents are barely older than the kids. Dianne Wiest (mother) was only nine years older than Ariel (Lori Singer) at the time and John Lithgow (father) was twelve years older.
The BAFTA Awards’ famous mask was designed by US sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe and it weighs 3.7 kg.
This year has just been proper mental and I know I’m never going to get a year in my life that’s greater and that’s why I’ve loved and cherished every single minute of (what some would call) work. I honestly have been like a pig in shit, I’ve been lapping it up. I’ve been blessed enough to be part of two of my favourite television shows of all time with my heroes: I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! and Saturday Night Takeaway. I used to have no luck at all, couldn’t even win a bloody raffle me, but this year I’ve been lucky enough to be able to present backstage and give out an award at the National Television Awards (NTAs), which was actually my first ever invite to an awards ceremony. In fact it was the first time I’d ever set foot on a red carpet (well, apart from a Blackpool B&B that me and my mam once stayed at where the carpets were red and the walls were green).
I took my dad as my date and we were given a blacked-out car to take us (no joke) thirty seconds across the car park. We giggled as we made the long trip from my dressing room to the carpet, but we felt dead posh and that. Once we had taken selfies with people, signed autographs and had our picture taken by the press, I went backstage and sat in my dressing room while the family went up into a box to watch.
I was so nervous. I had actually bought my outfit for the event four hours earlier in Topshop. Not ideal: I had had an outfit made for me but when I got it I looked like I worked for a really shit airline in a blood-red ill-fitted suit complete with shoulder pads an American footballer would be jealous of. So I ended up wearing an £80 suit with a black vest from River Island underneath. But it was fuchsia pink, I had my hair in a high pony and my skin was highlighted to the gods so I didn’t care.
It was funny though when interviewers asked, ‘Who are you wearing, Scarlett?’
‘Well, I’m wearing myself, mate, but my outfit is from Toppers – £80 it is and the vest’s £6 from River Island.’
When I first walked on stage to hand out the first NTA of the night with Dermot O’Leary (the king of live TV), my throat started going that dry it was as if water had never touched my lips in a year. I was so nervous but managed to somehow read the autocue whilst having someone tell me how long I had left to chat for in my ear. My first ever interview of my life was with none other than Danny Dyer. Now I absolutely love Danny Dyer – I have a bit of a crush on him to be honest – so needless to say I was shitting a brick and my heart was skipping beats. ‘Please don’t swear, Danny, I’m not saying you would but it’s my first interview and I love you.’
‘I won’t, darling. You got nothing to worry about, sweetheart.’
And I knew he wouldn’t, he’s a good egg is Danny. After finding out on Who Do You Think You Are? that
