Breakfast Blog

Friday 25th May

This weather is making us gear ourselves up for the Summer and in particular look forward to ‘Love Luton 2012 Festival’ where we have been giving tickets away all week to see Olly Murs and The Wanted!  Also appearing are new boyband Lawson who Natalie was lucky enough to meet.  Have a listen right here and see if you can work out who is chatting up who? 

Have a great weekend and enjoy the sunshine!

S x

 

Thursday 24th May

So we found our Twilight star Kristen Stweart has enjoyed eating pie whilst she’s been in Blighty so we has 12 yr odl Aaron in Blethcley suggest  her next movie might be Pie-rates of the Cari-kidney-be-aan. If you’ve got a spare £20k you could get to chat to Brad Pitt for 20 minutes apparently, I’ve got about £12 in my wallet so I got about 10 seconds for a marriage proposal – tee hee! And of course we had the lovely Emma Bunton on the show, who is smaller than me, like my brother always says -  the best things come in small packages. Listen to our chat with her here.

Don’t miss our show tomorrow, as we’ve got more tickets for you to go to the Love Luton festival and enjoy the sunshine today.

See you in the morning

Natalie x  

 

Wednesday 23rd May

  Should your pets marry it may sound ridiculous but now you have the chance!  We found a lady called Ann Clark who is a registrar and organises pet weddings, don’t believe me check out http://www.kitz-katz.co.uk/    Some of you thought it was a good idea others thought it completely barking! We had to speak to Ann and find out more as I thought it was about time my dog Nellie was wed!  Have a listen right here and if you think your dog might be a great match for my dog Nellie lets get some doggy dates up and running!  Contact Josh.harris@heart.co.uk if you fancy a date with Nellie….dogs only please !

See you in the morning

S  x

 

Tuesday 22nd May

So we were finding out about what you should do with a wedding dress after the day, as mine has arrived at the shop and as I was telling me friend the other day, she said in 1 year’s time we should all meet up in our dresses and drink Bud, like that episode of Friends where Monica and Phoebe do just that! One of my pals trashed her dress whilst on her horse, as you can see in the piccie and have a listen to what Vicky in Shenley Church End did with hers! Enjoy the sunshine and we’ll see you tmw from 6am

Nat  x

 

Monday 21st May

Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber it seems really does care what the Queen thinks of his Jubilee song and as he revealed this morning she never gives her opinion! He was however relieved to hear from Palace insiders that she loves it…pheeew!

Meanwhile the Olympic flame has arrived here in the Uk and it’s very exciting for Natalie as she is one of the Torch Bearers when the torch arrives in St Albans in July.   We heard a story this morning about people actually selling them on ebay so I thought I should try and tempt Natalie with some cash!

Have a listen right here to see if she was swayed!

See you in the morning

S x

 

Friday 18th May

 What would happen if Gary Barlow and Adele married?  Following the Ivor Novello awards we heard they both love each other but not really in that way…oh well I had such high hopes for the new Von trapp family!

Have you heard the Fish song?  It’s an internet sensation and so simple one market stallholder not selling his wares but singing them!  It’s so catchy so we thought we would do our own Heart Breakfast version!

Check it out!

See you Monday

Stu   x

 

Thursday 17th May

So we’ve been finding out about who of you have a Blue Peter badge as there’s lots in the papers about the show being taken off BBC 1 and put on CBBC. Pat told us her ex-hubby sold her badge on EBAY for guess how much.. listen here… and I’m going to just take a moment to congratulation my other half, who has just completed the 3 Peaks Challenge in under 24 hours.. so he climbed Ben Nevis, Scar Fell and Snowdonia with 22 minutes to spare – all in aid of Have a Heart, so if you’re feeling extra generous feel free to sponsor him J  http://www.justgiving.com/Nicola-Mcpartlan1 www.justgiving.com

We also chatted to Will Smith at the Premiere of the new Men in Black film who told us how getting his agent suit on again was like riding a bike! Awkward!

 Tomorrow we’re finding out the names you wish you didn’t have.. .Ivor Longbrow we’d love to hear from you

Natalie x

 

Wednesday 16th May

 So it turns out Adele wears 4 pairs of pants!  They are actually those Spanx knickers and it was at an awards ceremony but even so 4 pairs!  Everytime she sat down she must have bounced back up again!

Natalie found a list of what makes up the perfect man.  I think I scored on about two of them out of a list of twenty but does the perfect man really exist?  Here is what Charlotte in Weedon thinks she made us laugh this morning!

See you tomorrow

S x

 

Tuesday 15th May

So last night London’s Leicester Square had more beauties walking a GREEN carpet for the new take on Snow White, staring Twilight star Kirsten Stewart and the gorgeous Charliz Theron and we had our own star Juan on the show. If you haven’t heard about Juan, he’s Producer Josh’s Salsa teacher, despite Josh denying his new hobby, but we know the truth and Juan is making himself more known, we’re determined to find out who he is, so any light you can shed.. let us know..

 Tomorrow on the show we’re talking about the ‘Perfect Man’ does he exist, is he yours or are you him?

See you in the morning

Natalie x

 

Monday 14th May

 So Brangelina are moving next door to Bruce Forsyth!  I am looking forward to him popping round asking them to pick up a few bits of shopping but don’t forget the cuddly toy or there’ll be trouble!

We were cheering you up a bit this Monday with a bit of ‘car-e-oke’ you know those songs that you put on in the car that you just can’t help singing along to.  Have a listen right here as we confessed all.

See you in the morning

Stu x

 

Friday 11th May

So if you fancy a film this weekend, our Showbiz Editor Charlie told us about the new Jonny Depp movie Dark Shadows which once again sees Mr Depp join forces with Tim Burton which I’m sure you’ll agree is a match made in heaven! Hear what Charlie and Jonny say about the movie. Also we found a list of attributes that make up the Perfect man!! We’ll tell you more next week and after we heard Daniel Craig freezes himself in an ice chamber to enhance his muscles we had a laugh coming up with the next Bond movie name – From Russia with Gloves!!

Enjoy you’re weekend and join us Monday for some Car-eoke!!

Nat x

 

Thursday 10th May

 I thought I had found the perfect bra for Natalie’s hen night it has wind chimes on it!  She wasn’t too impressed but never mind I hear Jordan’s interested in one just seeing if we can attach it to Big Ben!

Meanwhile Olympic Cycling champion Victoria Pendleton joined us for a chat this morning  to give us a few tips for anyone taking part in Cycletta  a women’s only cycling event taking part in Woburn this weekend!  She was great fun especially when we asked her who she would like the back of her bike?  Have a listen right here!

Stu  x

 

Wednesday 9th May

Loads went on this morning on the show. Firstly, I paid a visit to the MK Theatre as Dirty Dancing has currently parked their tour bus there, I'd have been stupid not to have a dance lesson with Jonny! Check out what happened HERE

Also, the Weirdest thing you said you’d eaten today was from Travis in Kettering who’d eaten a huhu grub ( a big maggot!) Here’s the list of the 10 foods you should try before you die if you feel you’d like to be more adventurous!

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros - Mexican breakfast dish
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush

Also we heard about a great invention a bike powered TV – listen below.  And Lady Gaga’s lipstick stained tea cup sold in an auction for £47,000 – just don’t let anyone wash it up!

We’re back tomorrow wanting you to think about your favourite teacher tomorrow so have a think back to your school days and let us know

See you in the morning

Natalie X

 

Tuesday 8th May

The Wanted are having an amazing time whilst conquering the states apart from upsetting Christine Aguilera apparently she blanked them after the boys chatting about her being a diva.  Maybe it was a self fulfilling prophecy!

Meanwhile we chatted today about the important dates that you have forgotten, you know those birthdays or anniversaries, sometimes it’s hard to keep track of it all.  Having said that there are some dates you would hope that no-one would forget like their wedding day well think again!

Have a listen right here!

See you in the morning

S  x

 

Friday 4th May

Today we were shocked to see Producer Josh come to work wearing a vest, surely thats inappropriate attire for the workplace! You were telling us about when you've worn the wrong thing. Michelle told us she was late out to work and threw on a tracksuit, only to remember that she had a date after and had to go wearing her trackies...he didnt call her after!!

Our showbiz editor Charlie was very excited about the new American Pie reunion movie – here just how below

Enjoy the bank holiday and see you Tuesday

Natalie x

 

Thursday 3rd May

After someone paid 120 million for the famous work of art ‘the scream’ we wondered how much you might pay for our version on Heart Breakfast is it even worth £1.20? 

We also learnt that Brad Pitt is organising much of his forthcoming wedding to Angelina Jolie more of a case of Bradzilla we think!

And finally we met a gorgeous old couple who shared their secret to a long lasting relationship.  It’s been a huge hit on you tube and here’s why!

See you in the morning.

S  x

 

Wednesday 2nd May

If you’re a fan of Sir Richard Branson and his goatee beard, grinning teeth and lustrous mane you could now be enjoying seeing his face in your drink of you’re flying Upper Class with Virgin. Have a listen to this!!

See you in the morning to hear about your best cheat – I’m off to the Damian Hirst exhibition to see a shark..... in formaldehyde … does that count?

Nat x

  

Tuesday 1st May 

We heard from Tulisa this morning on why she is always been photographed in a bikini!  She said people think she never does any work but she argues that the paparazzi cant actually follow her into the studio…fair point!  We tested out a fun new app for your mobile this morning called the Ugly meter which looks at your face and rates your ugliness out of ten.  Bearing in mind Cheryl Cole only received a 4.2 out of 10 we thought we would give it a whirl with some shocking results!  Who do you think is the ugliest person in the Heart Breakfast Studio have a listen here to find out.

See you in the morning

S  x

 

 

 Monday 30th April

Joanna Lumley was on the show talking about ‘Shwopping’ where you can take unwanted items of clothes to your local M&S and when you buy something new, they give you another item of clothing in return for your item – which gets given to Oxfam. We also found Sarah in Bedford who spent £45 on pick n mix as I was at the cinema watching the Avengers and a girl next to me in the queue for sweets spend £23 on her bag, which I thought was a lot… I had carefully picked out mine, coming to a total of £3! We had the great slipper debate on the show as well as Stu loves his slippers, which were his mum’s. You can see them here www.facebook.com/hearthomecounties .. He doesn’t normally wear them to work unlike Lisa in Northampton who does just that – listen to this…

See you in the morning from 6am

Natalie x

 

Friday 27th April

We are really looking forward to this weekend’s first ever MK marathon. 

5,000 runners and we will be there to set it all off! Really good luck if you are taking part and to find out more we spoke to Saracen’s coach Paul Gustard who has run 4 marathons in a month and MK will be his last.  We thought he might be the best person to give us some advice!

Have a listen right here and good luck!

S x

 

Thursday 26th April

We were talking about blonde moments on the show and we proved that whilst we all have our ‘moments’ blondes do have the biggest ones, listen below! I’d also revealed my slight anxiety about the fact my pals new BF is listeing to the show as I hope I don’t put him off her! It’s a lot of responsibility and we were talking about LEGO the movie being given the green light in Hollywood and you came up with ‘My Little Pony Whisperer’ as another toy based film idea!

We’ll be back in the morning finding out your celebrity inspired booze ideas as we’ve heard Drew Barrymore has her own brand of wine so we wondered what else we could find to get us in that Friday feeling.

See you in the morning

Natalie  x

 

 

Wednesday 25th April

What a washout Wednesday is turning out to be.  Luckily I remembered I had a plastic poncho in my bag that I was given at Whipsnade Zoo the other week.  Unfortunately I was made to model it with some quite disturbing consequences as you can see.  Meanwhile we were talking about when you have been ID’d this morning and we set a challenge to find the oldest person to be ID’d.  We started at 45 and gradually it crept up to 61 and 65 and then we heard from Julie in Grangemouth who told us about her mother!

You won’t believe this story have a listen.

See you in the morning

Stuart x

 

Tuesday 24th April

Today on the show you told what you’d kick your partner out of bed for and Jane in Dunstable said her hubby’s snoring was like thunder! So I’ve gave her a tip to make clicking noises in his ear, which can help.. so we’ll see whether she took my advice. We also had teen heartthrob Zac Efron on the show promoting his new film The Lucky One and he told  us his secret to his young looks is due to washing his face! Who’d have thought!

Tomorrow we’ll find out when you were last id’d!

See you then

Natalie  x

 

Monday 23rd April

Black Lace, Big Fun and Bros what do they all have in common?  They were one of many embarrassing gigs you confessed to this morning, well I have to admit Big Fun was actually mine!! 

Carly Rae Jepson still celebrating her Big Top 40 success told us this morning she has a great gaydar as in the past she kept meeting boys who turned out to like the boys!  She reckons its all down to how good they smell that way she knows, bit of a generalisation but entertaining none the less!  

Finally if you are looking for extra protein in your diet try insects according to a new Dutch cookbook.  There was a little confusion this morning over how vegetarians might cope have a listen right here!

See you in the morning

S  x

 

Friday 20th April

  So Stu and I had a sleepover at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo last night in their very cool Lookout Lodges – here’s Stu in his Bear lodge. We loved it, including our torch walk back through the zoo after a delicious bbq, even the rain didn’t dampen our spirits! We got up close and personal with a lion as you can see!!!

I was enquiring whether I could borrow the Flamingoes at my wedding. Have a watch of our antics here .

See you Monday when we find out about your embarrassing gigs.

Have a good weekend

Natalie x

Thursday 19th April

Emily Blunt had a fun time filming her new movie ‘Salmon fishing in the Yemen’ with Ewen McGregor especially when filming in the desert in a sandstorm! Being so pale she found it quite tough but maybe all that wind and sand helped with a bit of exfoliation!

Meanwhile our dream expert Ian Wallace was on hand this morning to answer the question can our dreams ever come true?  He says yes and we had some amazing stories from you including an incredible one from Jo in MK! If you have ever wondered about it listen below it will make your day and check out Ianwallacedreams.com for loads more information.

See you in the morning

S x

 

Wednesday 18th April

So it’s 100 days till the Olympics and we found out Tinchy Stryder is recording the Olympic torch tune, I’ll be running to – how cool is that. We also were giggling at the baby who finds his Mum’s hovering hilarious and we wound our news editor John Stratford up with some annoying words – have a listen!

Sorry for sounding like I needed a ‘birst class dicket to Dottingham’ on air today – hopefully the cold will be gone by tmw.

Have a good day

Natalie X

 

Tuesday 17th April

If you had a tricky car journey today then we have the answer but not for another 20 years!  We have found the flying car of the future but we thought that Lisa from Hemel’s suggestion of calling it the Vauxhall ‘Astronaut’ was probably the best although I like the ‘Robin Reflyant’ from Sam in Duxford!

Guy Pierce has a new movie out and after a brilliant film career we couldn’t help but hark back to his time as Mike in neighbours.  Ofcourse everyone still remembers him for neighbours but as Natalie who has visited the set of Ramsey Street confessed nothing beats a hug from the one and only Harold Bishop!

Finally thanks for all your suggestions as to how Natalie should leave her wedding we had some brilliant ideas but then a super hero turned up on the scene have a listen right here!

See you in the morning

S  x

 

Monday 16th April

So you were entertaining us with your misheard song lyrics on the show, some of our favourites included Cat in Milton Keynes who said she used to think Abba Chiqitica was ‘Take your Teeth out’ and she was very embarrassed when it was pointed out during karaoke at her Aunts wedding CRINGE! Check out our NOW album of your best misheard lyrics below. Also we heard that Lady Gaga is worried the stars aren’t aligned as she’d like for her upcoming tour, so we’re wondering whether she might request Russell Grant in her rider and Barbara Windsor was on the red carpet last night for the Olivier awards doing her best Pop-eye impression!

We’ll be back in the morning from 6am don’t forget to register for the Big Town Showdown which is back for series 5.

See you in the morrow

N x

 

Friday 13th April

Today we had great fun with your curry song ideas on Text in the Blank. 

Forgive me but you can’t curry love but if you do things can only get Bhuna especially if you stand by your Nan!  I think you can tell it was Friday hope those weren’t too painful and you have tears on your Pilau…….Stop!!!

So if you are thinking of taking in a movie this weekend our showbiz editor Charlie Girling has been catching up the latest releases including Rihanna’s  latest offering! Here what she really thinks right here.

See you Monday

S x

 

Thursday 12th April

If you’ve ever fancied going into space, but are a bit worried about your nerves or if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be drunk in space – well according to the Metro, the ingredients of whisky have been sent to the international space station… might lead to a few problems, no?

We’ll be back in the morning, finding out your longest TV Series relationship. I’ve been ‘seeing’ Gossip Girl for coming up to 2 years now … it’s serious!

See you at 6am

Natalie x

 

Wednesday 11th April

Tattoos love them or loathe them everyone has an opinion but as we discovered this morning there are some pretty unusual ones around! Even our very own Producer Josh has a brand new one have a look right here….very Biblical! 

We had some really unusual Tattoos including ‘Chucky’ on one woman’s arm and a Winnie the Pooh and Tiger on one guys leg!  If we really wanted unusual tattoos though we thought we’d better find a tattoo artist as they are bound to have a few stories but we got a bit more than we bargained for!  Have a listen right here!

S x

 

Tuesday 10th April 

So we’re back from our Easter Hols, suitable refreshed. I’ve picked up my veil and done some Bridesmaid dress shopping, Stuart visited the seaside and Josh learnt the harmonica. Matt Lucas has a new TV show starting tonight, all about silly awards like the ‘Most more-ish food’ so we had to hear from him and he said that he was liking the blossoming relationship between his pal David Walliams and Mr Cowell. And with left over easter eggs in the studio we gave Stuart the challenge of eating one with a knife and fork, like the chocolate game you played as a kid. Have a look at this… HERE

We’re back in the morning talking tattoo… what’s the most unusual one you’ve seen?

See you in the morning

Nat   x

Friday 30th March

Today we sent Producer Josh out dressed as the Easter Bunny with free eggs but only if you could Easter up where you live.  We had Eggington, Steve-hen-age, St Albunnies and Cluckington!  In the end we sent him to Eggscape In Milton Keynes and a big thankyou to Booker in Luton for providing all the eggs.

Charlie Girling our showbiz expert doesn’t often pan a movie but hear what she had to say about ‘Wrath of the Titans’ especially if you are about to go and see it!

We are off next week and Matt Jarvis will be here with your chance to win a family holiday to Rome with Monarch.co.uk.  We are back after the Easter Bank Holiday weekend full to the brim with chocolate.

See you then

Stuart x

 

 

Thursday 29th March

All this week Stuart has been talking to the animals, he cricked his neck chatting with Jerry the Giraffe, overcame his sealion fear bantering with Sammy the Sealion and this morning bravely chingwagged with Larry the Lion – have a listen below to hear Lara winning an amazing prize with ZSL Whipsnade and tomorrow is your last chance to play so make sure you’re listening after 7.30 tomorrow morning.

See you then for our last Big Town Show Down of this series as well and we will crown our winner!

Have a good day in the sun

Natalie x

 

 

 

Wednesday 28th March

  This morning I brought out my best market trader stand to help Natalie out as it appears one in three grooms want to sell unwanted wedding gifts.  Well there are only so many toasters a girl actually needs! 
The other day on the travel news we discovered a road with a ridiculous name wibbly wobbly lane!! We thought surely that’s the most ridiculous but we were wrong as you proved this morning!  In fact we even had a call from Hertfordshire Council from Jon who looks after the roads! We were quite surprised by his suggestions have a listen right here!

See you in the morning

S x

 

 

 

Tuesday 27th March

 

You know the story about the big unsinkable ship and the iceberg… yes you know the one, Titanic, well it’s being rereleased to mark the 100 year anniversary of the tragedy, and in 3D! One of its main stars Kate Winslet was telling how she feels about the whole nudity scene, where Leonardo draws her, she finds it still very embarrassing to watch and during the scenes she’s had to nervously sing herself to remain calm. So you know me, always up for a challenge I asked Stuart to ‘draw me’… have a listen..

We’re back in the morning, it’s gonna be another beautiful day so enjoy.

Natalie x

 

 

Monday 26th March

Joanna Lumley was on the show this morning to reveal what Kate Moss is really like following that Ab-Fab Sports relief sketch on Friday night which features her and people like Stella McCartney.  In the words of Patsy, Joanna said Kate was fabulous darling!  

We were finding out when you’ve been out for something and come back with something entirely different this morning.  I went out for wine and came back with a dining room table but Rebecca managed to top that! Have a listen right here it involves a Horse!

See you in the morning.

Stuart x

 

Friday 23rd March

   So I was flirting with our showbiz editor Charlie Girling on the show unintentionally as she told us about new movie Hunger Games, it’s meant to be brilliant so make sure you check out her review below! We also heard Simon Cowell's thoughts on that 'intimate' Tulisa video, he wasn't pleased!

We saw this today too… a video that’s going viral from a group of North Korean Aha fans, click HERE to watch it.

Enjoy the tropical weather this weekend, we’re going suit shopping to get my fiancés wedding outfit – exciting! Although if it’s too hot we’ll be sipping spritzers in the park me thinks!

See you Monday

 
Natalie  x

 

Thursday 22nd March 

We were talking vanity this morning after discovering that on average most of us look in the mirror at least 10 times a day………. really? 

It’s much more for me lol!!   As luck would have it we had a guest who we thought might have some experience of this, rugby player Gavin Henson!  We know he likes to look after himself so we thought who better to judge our game ‘Vain or Plain’   He was great fun and also had lots to tell us about how he is getting involved in children’s story writing! 

Listen again right here.

See you in the morning.

Stu  x

 

 

Wednesday 21st March

  So you’ve only got until the end of the month to register to play the Big Town Show down and if you didn’t hear today, have a listen to Tony in Buckingham as he may well spur you on to register! Also we had Mark Wahlberg he of the six pack telling us how there’s plenty of times he can’t be bothered to work out. Does that make you feel better for missing the gym? No – get down and give me 10 then! LOL!

See you in the morning

Natalie x

   

 

Tuesday 20th February

  Adele may have competition for her crown as the most popular female artist of the moment from two year old Makena whose adorable performance of Someone Like You has caused a sensation on YouTube.  It is the cutest thing you will hear all day so click here and have a listen!

Meanwhile we were finding out today what your kids won’t let you do, I always used to hate being kissed at the school gates so much so I would make my mum do it around the corner!  Mind you compared to Jen my mum had it easy you should hear what her kids won’t let her do. They won’t let her spend a penny but it’s not quite as you imagine.  Have a listen right here.

See you in the morning

S  x

 

 

Monday 19th March

Happy Monday, did you have a nice weekend? Hope you get to feel the sun on your face today as it’s almost summertime!! Now then ladies, forget being Pear shaped... the latest way we can describe our shape it seems is as a Butternut Squash – I kid you not!

Hear what Stuart had to say on the matter…

Nat x

 

 

Friday 16th March

This morning Natalie was scoring men out of ten! Apparently it’s a game she used to play,maybe you’ve played it too but just in your head. 

This was after we found a survey that showed that the best looking men in the world are to be found in Stockholm.  We decided this morning that surely there must be better looking men closer to home so outside of the studio we went and helped Natalie play the marks out of ten game. See how we got on right HERE ! 

So it turns out that we had many nominations for Milton Keynes and some for Northampton having the best looking men but then Lynn called us up.  Now Lynn works for a model agency so we thought she might know a thing or two.  Have a listen right here as she reveals which county has the best looking men!

We also caught up with Mel C who told us that a Spice Girls reunion wasn't on the cards because they aren't all keen on the idea! Shame really because the Queen would have loved to see Wannabe at the Jubilee!

See you on Monday!

S x

 

Thursday 15th March

  So after Stu and I were flying high last week, being very daring with The Blades, we were keen to find out when you too had been a daredevil, as whilst we looked brave, it’s not always the case. I’m not particularly keen on going in the automatic carwashes and always have a bit of an adrenalin rush when I do!! Yes really! Hear what got Kim going!!

We’re back in the morning, finding out where all the best looking men live!

See you then

Natalie x

 

 

Wednesday 14th March

 So it turns out we should be calling Bruno Mars Bruno Marge after we found out the secret to his incredible quiff was that he used margarine!  It doesn’t end there we had suggestions from you this morning of Mayonnaise as hair conditioner or beef tomatoes for sunburn but don’t do what I did and try tinned!  One of my favourites was from Rachel in Daventry who suggested using Vodka and Ice to help get rid of a spot! What a great remedy or as a cocktail  I like to refer to it  a Cosmo-Spot-Is-Gone!! Here at Heart Breakfast we know a good marketing opportunity when we see one so we thought we should help Bruno and his margarine hair out.  Have a listen right here.

See you in the morning

Stu x

 

Tuesday 13th March

 On the show today Besty shared her dilemma of having to use public loos as she’s worried about catching germs, listen below.. and we found out the methods Brad Pitt has used to get his son Maddox interested in History. Apparently he’s splashed out £8,000 on suits of armour so the pair can take part in the specially organised battles. How’s that for a devoted Dad!

Nat x

 

Monday 12th March

Today we were finding out about the guilty single you bought and we really went to town!   Given the choice between Whigfield’s Saturday night and the Smurf song it appears you were fairly divided.  Those were our guilty pleasure tunes but can you guess which is which?  It doesn’t end there thanks to all your suggestions we were able to come up with a whole album but I’m not sure how much you would pay for it? Mr Blobby featured and it seems Take That weren't the only ones to love him....shameful!

Have a listen below!!

See you in the morning, when we are chatting 'the things you don't touch in public! Don't ask!

Stu x

 

Friday 9th March

It's Have a Heart Appeal week, what are doing reading the blog?! Daniel Radcliffe, Pixie Lott and David Hasselhoff will all be on Heart today and make sure you get donating anf bidding on the amazing auction lots we have to raise money for Have a Heart supporting Childline.

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 8th March

It’s day 4 of our Have a Heart Appeal and all week you have been so generous helping us raise as much money as possible for Childline. So many amazing auction items up for grabs throughout the day on Heart and it was our turn this morning.   We were auctioning of the chance to name the female Giraffe at Woburn Safari Park and a family pass for a year so you can pop down and visit it whenever you like.  So many generous bids this morning but congratulations to Robert in Miton Keynes who bid an extremely generous £500 Congratulations and a big  thankyou from all of us.  Apparently it’s a birthday present for his wife!

We also caught up with our Atlantic Rowers who were raising money for our appeal with their rowing challenge which we followed until their tragic capsize.  They joined us in the studio this morning to tell us how horrific that was but also to tell us how much money they have helped raise for Childline.  Listen below!

See you in the morning.

S x

Wednesday 7th March

We were flying high in the sky yesterday thank to The Blades who helped us thank you all for your wonderful support for our Have a Heart appeal. Stuart and I were both blown away by the experience and loved every minute of it, although I did feel a little bit sick after the sixth heart! The clouds were trying to defy our attempts, but have a look at the video if you didn’t get a chance to look up to the sky by clicking HERE

See you in the morning for the chance to name Woburn Safari’s newest born Giraffe, a little lady M?!

Natalie x

 

Tuesday 6th March

As you read this we will be high above the skies of Northamptonshire joining the blades aerobatic display team  as part of this years Have a Heart appeal supporting the incredibly important work of Childline.  You have been so generous so far with your time and donations so as a thankyou we are  creating a Huge heart in the sky!  It is going to look awesome and we will let you know how we get on in the morning plus who looks greener on the video!

Meanwhile Adele has hired a bodyguard to look after her whilst home alone just in case the place might be haunted!   We thought the idea of Adele and ghosts could be a winner though have a listen right here!

See you in the morning with our feet firmly back on the ground!

Stu x

Stu x

 

Monday 5th March

Russell Grant was on the show today, as he is the new Wizard of Oz, having been a huge childhood fan of the movie, I’ve already seen the show and it’s incredibly, but listen below to hear why Russell was somewhat reluctant to leave the safety of the MK theatre to tread the boards in the west end…

We’ll be back in the morning and we’ll be flying high for our Have a Heart appeal – if you’re in Northampton or Bedfordshire, we’ll be painting a heard in the sky with The Blades so make a note in your diary for 1pm tmw.

See you then

Natalie x

 

Friday 2nd March

Thursday 1st March

What do you think of David Hasselhoff? Slightly mad? Well have a listen to our chat with him on Heart Breakfast below and see what you think, then to make you chuckle even more check out our latest video for our Have a Heart appeal. It's HERE for you.

We’re encouraging you to Be a Kid for a Kid to raise money for Childline. You should try doing something it’s great fun!! You can also download packs for other fundraising ideas here We’re back in the morning, take care driving in this fog!

Natalie x

 

Wednesday 29th February

Who would you rather ask to marry you this Leap Year Ryan Reynolds or Denzel Washington? They were both on the show this morning talking about the movie ‘Safehouse’ and arguing about who was the better looking.  Ryan reckons it should be Denzel as he even had a Salt’n’Pepa song sung about him. 

When it comes to leap year proposals it’s all about the women asking and we were really chuffed when Paula called us up this morning wanting to pop the question to her partner Dave after 27 years of being together!  It was a hugely tense moment for us all and here is what happened!

See you in the morning

Stu x

 

Tuesday 28th February

Have you heard about @AngieRightLeg the Twitter account set up after the gorgeous Angelina, flashed her left pin on the red carpet at the Oscars and it now has 24,766 follows! A close second came from Simon in Leighton Buzzard who told us about his mum always making him wear shorts even in the freezing winter months – have a listen below.

And don’t miss the show in the morning for another chance to bid to win the chance to meet Lionel Richie on Friday. Enjoy your day

Natalie x

 

Monday 27th February

If you fancy seeing an intimate performance with Lionel Richie make sure you listen from 8.00am tomorrow morning for your chance to bid for this amazing auction item with all the proceeds going towards our Have a Heart appeal in aid of Childline.  We open the bidding at 8.00am for this unique VIP experience so listen out for all the details then.

Also Producer Josh is wore 3 items of women's clothing this morning and insists that loads of men borrow their girlfriend's clothes! You told us otherwise. Here's a picture for you but can you guess which bits they are?

Are you good at having your photo taken and feel natural when smiling.  At the weekend Natalie had some help form the Bridal Coach whilst at a wedding show.  With her upcoming nuptials she thought it was about time she got some practice in!  Here how she got on ‘Smizing’ right here.

See you in the morning

Stu x

 

Friday 24th February

On the show today, we established tea etiquette from Mary in Bedford. Basically if you like strong tea you ask people to ‘tease it with the milk’. Also we’re still wanting your participation in the Big Town Showdown, if you want a little practice before you click the next page to apply, listen below..

 Have a fab weekend and we’ll see on Monday for your chance to bid to meet Lionel Ritchie as part of our Have a Heart appeal (we'll be dancing on the ceiling haha) sorry!

Natalie x

 

Thursday 23rd February

Lots of chat still going on today about poor James Corden having to interrupt Adele’s big moment at the Brit awards. We revealed this morning James does have a bit of a habit of ruining other big moments have a listen to hear what he has been upto it’s very funny!

Thanks for all your donations for our Have a Heart Appeal supporting Childline. We also asked you to guess how long Natalie B could fly for (she's being a kid for a kid you see!). Nathan in Northampton was the nearest with his guess, make sure you listen Wednesday for the next challenge and get involved. If you want to watch Nat flying click HERE

We were finding out the stuff you’ve made for kids this morning! Jane in Milton Keynes made an amazing rocket for her daughter Sylvia! And we were surprised by a caller who trumped all of you with her Tracey Island make!  It was of course none other than Blue Peter presenter Anthea Turner the queen of makes! She told us all about that iconic moment but also revealed that the make she was really rubbish at was the pancakes!  I too can relate to that one I am sure the producers used to stick them down!  Have a listen to Anthea right here!

See you in the morning

S x  x

 

Wednesday 22nd February

So it was the Brit awards last night and everyone is talking about Adele, not because of what she won but because of her not realising it’s rude to point. She gave a certain hand gesture after James Corden had to cut her off during her second exceptance speech – opps! Check out all the Brits pictures we’ve got for you here. Also we were finding out about your performing pets, as along with the Brits we’ve also just celebrated the Golden Collar Awards, where Uggie, the star of The Artist won Best Dog in as theatrical film and it’s not just dogs with performance prowess, have a listen below. 

We’ll be back tomorrow and you can hear how our latest Be a Kid for a Kid challenge went

See you at 6am

Natalie x

 

Tuesday 21st February

  It’s the Brit awards tonight and we heard from host of the big show James Corden this morning who lets face it is best placed to get all the backstage gossip tonight.  He revealed to us that actually he is really rubbish at it and spends most of his time curled up in his dressing room.  This is probably as he will be squeezing himself into some rather tight trousers as part of his Tom Ford Tuxedo! 

Hope you are all set for Pancake day, Natalie and I had a bit of a Heart Breakfast flip off this morning.  We had 30 seconds on the clock but who could do the most flips?  You can listen to how we got on right here or watch a video behind the scenes of what actually happened by clicking HERE .  

Have a great day and enjoy your pancakes!

S x

   

Monday 20th February

Today it’s Stuart’s b’day – Happy B’day Stu, he likes to keep it quiet, especially as his birthday celebrations involve dinner with some friends who have a 3 yr old, seeing as they both share the same bed time!! We also had Marcus Collins on the show and got him to talk us through various celebs he would make over as well as getting him to wow us with his QVC presenter skills – and he was a natural, listen below…

See you tomorrow

Natalie x

 

Friday 17th February

  Ghostrider is out this weekend starring Nicholas Cage so we sent our showbiz Editor Charlie Girling to chat to him about the new movie!  He is very serious about most of his roles although Natalie was concerned about his current use of guyliner!  He said the movie might be good for a first date as there will be plenty of grabbing the arms of the person next to you! Have a listen to our chat with Charlie and see if it’s a movie you fancy checking out this weekend!

See you Monday!

Stu x

 

Thursday 16th February

Today we wanted to know whether you like or loathe surprises, as this week we learnt that the cult classic Sunday night viewing is back on our screens. Stu hates suprises, although Nat loves them (just doesn’t get enough of them).. so Nat surprised Stu with an early b’day party (it’s his big day on Monday and he likes to keep it quiet). Have a listen to this

Nat x

 

Wednesday 15th February 

Adele is taking a five year holiday to focus on her love life!  We had a few holiday ideas today but I guess lying on a beach may factor fairly highly although will she have much to sing about afterwards?  Never mind I’ll find sunscreen like you?

This morning we found out what your kids are totally attached to with a great call from Claire inStevenage about her daughters attachment to Winnie her soft toy which her brother kept hiding!  We were a bit alarmed though when an actual alarm went off during our chat we decided perhaps Winnie had her own security system to prevent her from going missing!

Don’t forget to listen after 8 tomorrow morning for the results of our next challenge for the Have a Heart appeal supporting Childline.  Later today we will be swimming a length in pyjamas! See you in the morning

S x

 

 

Tuesday 14th February

 

So we were finding out your funny valentine’s stories on the show, Dawn told us about her trip to Cuba, having just got enagaged and one night when she returned to her room with her fiancée, there was a horrible bug in their room, apparently a bit like a cockroach but with red wings . Her other half Dale thought it would be funny to pick it up & chase her around the room with it, to which she screamed ‘No Dale please Dale don’t its so big’ Not realising the bug was already dead but also our neighbours could hear her shrieks and the following morning were giving them a knowing wink whilst asking if the pair had had a good night… We loved Dawn’s story so much, she won a diamond necklace from Michael Jones Jeweller. We are back tomorrow from 6am

See you then
Natalie x

Monday 13th February

This morning we found out from you when you have been ridiculously over charged after I witnessed a man being asked to pay £24013 for a days parking by an automated ticket machine. Your stories ranged from a 100 euro ice cream to an energy bill for 40k, hopefully they were all some sort of error!

 Fresh from the Baftas we chatted to Daniel Radcliffe this morning who was totally charming and great fun. We are used to hearing him talk about life after Harry Potter we thought how about finding out about life if Harry Potter had never come along! So we played Daniel Radcliffe this could have been your life! Have a listen below to find out why he could have ended up being a stripping magician! See you in the morning
S x

Listen back to our interview with Daniel Radcliffe here

 

Friday 9th February

Daniel Radcliffe is on the show on Monday and we cannot wait!  Meanwhile we thought as a warm up we would put him through his paces today on The Big Town Showdown.  Yes it is back and on Monday we launch our hunt to find the cleverest town across Herts Beds and Bucks and Northants and if you want to register and play why not get involved on our Big Town registration page right here!

We have an amazing prize to be won for the cleverest town this series so may battle commence. If you want to check out how Daniel Radcliffe did this morning have a listen right here and see just what a bright chap he really is!

Also on the show we revealed the results in our Have a Heart challenge where we both took the 11 plus exam to raise money for the appeal supporting childline, the theme is to be a kid for a kid so we put ourselves to the test! Thanks for all your donations and make sure you check the video out HERE.

See you Monday

S x  

 

Thursday 9th February

So I'm on the blog today as we're heading off to London town to meet Daniel Radcliffe! He'll be on the show after 8 on Monday morning so make sure you check that out. It's been a busy few days,

As you can see, Stuart and Natalie B took they'e 11 plus exam to raise money for our Have a Heart Appeal, thanks for all your donations and check out the results tomorrow.

You may or may not know that we have our single guy Matt who we've been sorting out, moulding him into the perfect man as it were. It was make over day today so a massive thanks to Burton and Faccia at the Grosvenor centre in Northampton for kitting him out and plucking all the necessaries. If you wanted to see how he got on the video is RIGHT HERE ! It's your last chance to get involved and sort yourself out with a date with the lovely Matt, please do get in touch on our Facebook page 'Heart Home Counties' or text 'Radio + your name' to 8-21-22!

Producer Josh x

 

Wednesday 8th February    

     So we were finding out about your push presents today, a pal of mine who is about to have a baby told me she learnt about this trend at her anti-natal class and her hubby is buying her 10 sessions at a boot camp (her choice not his!).

Also we heard from Matt our single man who we are getting ever ready to meet a lady for a Valentine’s Date and we informed him of his make-over challenge taking place later today as we’re taking Matt to The Grosvenor Centre in Northampton, where he’ll be kitted out in an outfit I choose for him in Burton’s and then will getting his face sorted (lol) with Faccia which will be entertaining, listen to when we informed him of our plans on the show today… and I’ve attached a picture of one of the interesting presents we got for our engagement – an apple master?

 See you in the morning

Nat  x

 

Tuesday 7th February

Have you met our Single man yet?  In the run up to Valentines day we are helping him out and trying to find him a date.  What do you think of him in his all action Karate gear Natalie definitely approves!  If you are interested then why not leave him a message here www.facebook.com/hearthomecounties   . 

Meanwhile we were talking first loves this morning but sometimes it doesn’t go quite according to plan in fact those early rejections can really scar you not that I’m still bitter or anything lol!

In fact have a listen to Kerry from Higham Ferrers story it will tug at your heartstrings but we think we had the perfect answer!

See you in the morning

Stuart x

 

Monday 6th February

On the snowy show today, James Martin told us he had issues fitting ice cream into the freezer of his Motor home! A thrilling fact from our Saturday Kitchen favourite. Stuart also admitted to taking a hot water bottle into bed, but wasn’t sure whether it meant he was less of a man, you told him it was OK, if he was single! We also loved seeing your snowman pics...check out the one Producer Josh found in St Albans!

Speaking of single men, we introduced our single man Matt, who we are going to be putting through is paces in the lead up to Valentines Day to see if Natalie B’s Loveshack can help him find love. Have a listen to Matt and see what you think?

See you in the morning, enjoy the snow if you’re off school

Natalie x

Friday 3rd February

Natalie hit an all time low this morning!  We were testing out her voice for record companies who are looking for the deepest voices and she was very impressive unfortunately mine was just too high lol!

We heard from James Morrison as we have a treat lined up for you on Valentines day where you can see him perform live in Paris so make sure you are listening all next week for the details!

Finally in an effort to help Natalie out with the perfect pose for her Wedding photos we spoke to Bridal Coach Michelle Paradise who had some really great tips.  You can find out more at www.thebridalcoach.co.uk and have a listen to some of the stuff she made Natalie do, it will certainly leave you smiling!

See you Monday

S x

Thursday 2nd February

We had such fun with our first Be a Kid for a Kid Have a Heart challenge yesterday, thanks to Brendan at Sno!Zone. Have a look at this VIDEO to see who won.  We also chatted about David Beckham’s new underwear range..

We’ll be back in the morning from 6am

Nat x

Wednesday 1st February

Don’t forget today Natalie and I are racing each other on a sledge at the  SNO!Zone in Milton Keynes in aid of this years Have a Heart appeal and you can vote for who you think will win by texting BREAKFAST +STU/NAT TO 70766 . Aswell as voting for who you think will actually win more

More importantly you will make a pound donation to our Have a Heart appeal supporting Childline. TEXTS COST £1 PLUS YOUR STANDARD NETWORK RATE. All the t&cs are at heart.co.uk

Have you ever noticed how you never hear a Cockney Pilot well now we have the reason!  According to a recent poll Cockney pilots would make air travellers nervous and they prefer as reassuring voice such as Nigel Havers.  We thought we would put it to the test so have a listen and climb aboard Heart Airways! 

See you in the morning

Stuart x

Tuesday 31st January

Have you heard the news about their being an American remake of Only Fools and Horses? I read today a newspaper article suggesting Vince Vaughan as Del Boy and Jennifer Anniston as Raquel.. surely that’s too glamourous! We were finding out about your strangest queues on the Heart Breakfast this morning and were very amused to hear Lee in St Albans story he’s definitely a HUGE fan of the Trotters, that’s for sure. Listen below…

See you in the morning from 6am

Natalie x

Monday 30th January

It was great fun catching up with James Morrison on Heart Breakfast this morning and we can exclusively reveal he really is a bit of a Mummy’s boy!  We were questioning him about future collaborations after the success of Up with Jessie J  and when it comes to a collaboration in the kitchen he prefers his mum to be on hand, especially if he has to get to grips with the Christmas dinner!   Also look out for James as the new member of boyband One Direction if you want to know more check out our interview with him right here!

Have a great Monday

Stu x

 

Friday 27th January

On the show today we were finding out your best blag as Stuart told us that he’d blagged his way into the National TV Awards a few years ago with the help of Dermot O Leary- and we heard all the gossip from this weeks awards from our Showbiz Editor Charlie Girling, have a listen below. Also we were amused to hear that Lady Gaga has helped her folks open a restaurant in NYC  - you can imagine what will happen when customers ask to see the menu.. yes she’ll be wearing it!! We’re back on Monday, maybe find out more of the first words you’ve said. This morning mine was ‘For godsake’ – ask your colleagues /pals out of interest, it’s amusing!

Have a fab weekend

Natalie x

Thursday 26th January

Well I never thought when I woke up this morning I would end up wearing a pair of pop socks! According to Kirsty Young the secret to a happy marriage is never to let your partner see your popsocks!  You however were happy to tell us that on the right occasion pop socks rock! Have a listen right here and also check out myself and Josh modelling them can you guess which is me?

See you in the morning.

Stu x

Wednesday 25th January

Guys,

Here’s the thing, there’s a story out today about women only needing to be near flowers in order for you us to accept a date.. but listen below to what I think of all that!. Never underestimate the power of a surprise bunch of flowers and also don’t do the ‘I was going to buy you flowers’.. that’s even worse. If you vuy flowers sporadically to surprise your lovely lady, or ladies you can buy them for him.. then they will never be called guilt flowers either.. Can you tell I get a little worked up about this!
We’re back tomorrow finding out the things you don’t let your partner see you in.. and also we’re looking for people who wear pop socks!

See you then 

Natalie x

Tuesday 24th January

Liam Neeson has a voice that could melt ice unfortunately there was rather too much of it in Alaska for him to cope with!  Talking to us about filming his latest movie which is to wolves what Jaws is to sharks he revealed that the wolves in the movie are very real so you have been warned! 

Meanwhile Natalie revealed she has made a bit of a faux pas with her new mother in law as she has been spelling her name wrong!  So this morning you helped us out with some Do’s and Don’ts for the Mother in Law and Natalie compiled her ultimate list.  Have a listen as it may prove useful and the Spice Boys were on hand to help her out too! 

Stu x

Monday 23rd January

 On the show today we were having a giggle about the simple things you can’t do, I always kill house plants and was quite pleased to hear a tip that adding coca cola can help a wilting plant. When Stu admitted he couldn’t scramble an egg,  you offered a lot of advice such as using the microwave so we gave him a little on air challenge, have a listen below!

 Don’t forget to check out our Have a Heart Appeal - Be a Kid for a Kid which we launched today. A PERFECT excuse to be a kid and raise money for Childline. We’ll be doing all sorts and hope you will get in the spirit of releasing your inner child.

See you in the morning from 6am

Nat x

Friday 20th January

Huge Congratulations to Glen in Milton Keynes who walked away with an amazing Villa Holiday this morning just for answering 3 questions right after poor old Geoff from Bletchley fell at the final hurdle having been with us all week until he got just one question wrong.  It was dramatic stuff!

Today is Gary Barlow’s birthday so Happy Birthday from us and we hope that he might be spending at least some of it with his Take That bandmates! We think Gary is a bit like a fine wine and has got better with age so why not check out his birthday plans here!

Make sure you are listening on Monday just after 8 as we have some big news about our Have a Heart Appeal for 2012 you won’t want to miss this!

See you on Monday

Stu x

Thursday 19th January

 Last night Stu and I were so impressed with the 26 schools taking part in DanceXchange 2012 that we had to give more shout outs this morning. All the children really did us proud.

On the show today we were getting rid of the annoying phrases in everyday life. I’d found out that ‘Unexpected item in the bagging area’ is all thanks to an Atlanta tech company who made the software. That was the first to go, followed by the advice to  'Get a grip', 'at the end of the day', 'it might never happen', 'when all is said you have to think outside the box'… and hear below what really annoyed Jo in MK..Lets just say she didnt look like the lady in the picture!

We’ll be back tomorrow  - make sure you listen after 8 for your chance to win a holiday to Majorca, if Jeff in Bletchley gets one question wrong it could be you winning the Villa Plus holiday!

Nat x 

Wednesday 18th January

Have you started a new 2012 gym regime?  Seems that lots of us have and it’s really easy to spot the gym newbies in all their gym gear but it’s so easy to slip up, quite literally!  Let’s face it no-one wants to be seen falling off the running machine and there isn’t much dignity left after that.  We had warnings of over powerful water fountains, shorts that are too tight plus those grunters, are they really just attention seeking? 

So many celebrities have their fitness DVD’s out this month and I guess if you want to avoid the gym then maybe this is the option for you but have you heard about our Heart Breakfast fitness DVD, yes move over Davina we think we have it sussed!

See you in the morning

S x

Tuesday 17th January

So you told us the random things you’ve been googling this morning, which ranged from Burnese Orchids to pigmy monkey’s and we were also bemused to hear about a bottle of water, supposedly from Tom Cruise’s swimming pool going on sale on Ebay – there’s talk of people wanting it to dab behind their ears! Really!

We’ve got Jeff from Bletchely trying to win a holiday to Majorca this week, but if he gets any of his four questions wrong you too could be in with a chance. Make sure you’re listening from 6am tomorrow.

Have a good day

Natalie x

Monday 16th January

Producer Josh here, just a quick blog for you today. If you missed the show today you didnt hear about Ricky Gervais offending half....no most...of Hollywood at the Golden Globes!

Also you missed out on Round 1 of our Villa Plus competition, we want to send you to Mallorca. Currently Jeff from Bletchley is in pole position to win but if he gets one question wrong you could be snatching it away from him, make sure you listen after 8 every morning this week for more details and your chance to win.

I had to put this audio on here, Natalie is getting married and it seems her mum has planned her wedding night for her!

Catch you tomorrow when Stu and Nat will be back in fine form on the blog!

Producer Josh x

Friday 13th January 

On the show this morning, we talked about the brand new Meryl Streep movie "The Iron Lady". It's a biopic of former Prime Minister Margaret Tatcher and Meryl's performance is so good, she's being tipped for an Oscar! But we wondered who would get to play us if they did a movie about our lives... You wouldn't believe the combination we came up with... 

X

Thursday 12th January

The show was hilarious today with lots of you telling Producer Josh just how silly he looks in his fake glasses, including Nicky who works at Specsavers – telling Josh to take them off you look like a fool!

My favourite showbiz story today is about how Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z want to make the first music video in space! Apparently the video would be shot when passengers experience six minutes of weightlessness ad it seems the label people have been talking about making a music video in space. We don’t think they’ve thought this through – what with the new baby and all – listen below…

Don’t miss our last January Jetaway on the show tomorrow – you’re chance to go Lanzarote.

See you in the morning from 6am

Natalie x

Wednesday 11th January

It seems that Adele wants to move in with her boyfriend!  Natalie thinks it might be too soon but at least a new album might contain more upbeat lyrics or will it?  I’m a bit worried she might be singing ‘Don’t leave the toilet seat up’ or Natalie was wondering about ‘Rolling in the unmade sheets’  that’s her suggestion not a request by the way.

Also today we were bigging up your gadgets with our very own home shopping channel giving you a chance to come on and sell them to us.  I know I sound like a saddo but my steam mop has been a revelation and Natalie’s dad was very impressed with her pressie of a foldable shovel in fact so much so he actually called us up.  Have a listen to him getting very excited about his new contraption and see you in the morning!

Stu x

Tuesday 10th January

  Hey it’s Tuesday already and here is a great game to play today it’s the Beyonce baby name generator just like Blue Ivy!  Take the colour of your first car and add that to the name of your favourite plant.  Natalie became Maroon Ranuncular a plant I had never heard of trust her to come up with that!  Mine sounded quite dull in comparison just plain old White Pansy! 

We felt a bit like Mr and Mrs Noah this morning as we ended up counting the animals in.  It seems the keepers at Whipsnade zoo are doing a bit of a stock check where they have to literally count all the animals hoping that nothing has gone missing especially if it’s a lion!  We spoke to Les who is the animal manager at Whipsnade zoo and offered him our help!  I am not sure if he was that keen have a listen below to find out.

See you in the morning

Stu x

Monday 9th January

Morning, how was your weekend? I had my first wedding dress trying on – ooh what fun! I took my oldest pal with me and the pair of us found it all rather entertaining, remembering our dressing up days! Not found the dress yet, although I’ve found one I love, of course it’s rather pricey – trust me! But if I won £50k the whole wedding would be sorted! We kicked off our ‘Who’s on Heart’ game today, where you could win up to £50k by guessing our three secret celebs saying ‘Who’s on Heart’ and got you to tell us the first three things you’d buy which included Mark in Offley wanting shares in a gin factory and a goat and Chris in Luton who fancied jetting off to Barbados and on our facebook page people were admitting they’d want a divorce! What have we started!

The exciting celeb news is that Beyonce and Jay Z have had a baby girl, have a listen below to what she’s called.

We’ll be back tomorrow giving you another chance to win on our January Jetaway all thanks to Monarch.co.uk and finding out your best achievements with Brownie’s or Cubs!
See you then

Natalie x  x

Friday 7th January

So it’s January and every other person you meet is on detox or some form of diet but exactly how long will it last?  I know so many people who have fallen off the wagon already and it’s only January 6 but put temptation in your path and it’s so easy to crumble or at least eat one!  I am trying to be good but January is the month where you actually want to eat all that stodgy stuff as it’s so cold and miserable outside.  It seems that many of you have fallen of the wagon too but never fear as Natalie B is on hand with her tips for tricking yourself into thinking you’re having a treat and apparently it all starts with the vestibule! Check out all the details right here and make sure you are listening on Monday from 6 as we launch our January Jetaway with Monarch.co.uk when we could be sending you off to the sunshine!

Have a great weekend.

Stu  x

Thursday 6th January

What a windy morning, as well as trees being blown all over the place, we heard about wheelie bins, recycling the lot! Luckily there was no recreation of The Wizard of Oz with houses flying by! You were telling us about the last time you had to be rescued including Jules who’s hubby left her in a lake when she got stuck during a metal detecting session, he rescued the instrument and left his wife! And then there was Stu’s Supernan, who saved him from a duck pond. Have a listen. We  also heard from Meryl Streep on playing Maggie Thatcher in her new film, apparently she said she looked like her Dad when she had all her make up on...The iron lady will be thrilled!

And of course we’re catching up each day with Bedford’s Ian Rowe and his 5 companions who are attempting to row across the Altantic in 30 days. To find out where they are and to donate for our Have a Heart appeal, supporting Childline have a look here -  http://www.heart.co.uk/fourcounties/have-a-heart/atlantic-odyssey-2012/

Right, I’m off to drink more Beechams as I’ve lost the battle with the cold I was holding off over Chrimbo and it’s now kicked in! Charming!

See you tomorrow

Nat x

Wednesday 5th January

Following Natalie’s exciting news on her engagement yesterday we remembered that 2012 is a leap year so is it ok for the women to propose?  Personally I think women are the experts when it comes to romance so who better to design the ultimate proposal.  Natalie really wanted a plane in the sky writing the proposal but would rather the man ask which ofcourse he did albeit after a bit of Dutch courage.

I wondered if men ever knew the right time to propose to a woman so Natalie put me to the test with our fun game called ‘Propose Now’.

Hear how I got on and see you in the morning.

S  x

 

Tuesday 4th December

Happy New Year and welcome to a very windy Tuesday! So Stu and I are back after the festive break, Stu had a hot Chrimbo in Madiera with his other half and his family – I did a road trip round trip with the BF from Warwickshire to Manchester to see both our families and then we ended up at Oundle Mill where the BF proposed!! Yep he LIKED IT AND PUT A RING ON IT!! Eek!! So it’s full steam ahead on the wedding planning and I’m going to become a missus! Have a listen to Stu and Josh winding me up and announcing it on the show.. and tomorrow we’ve got another chance for you to join me at my Pamper Party at Whittlebury Hall Hotel and Spa, next month. It’s all good – we won’t allow the January blues to dampen our spirits!

See you in the morning

Nat x

Friday 23rd December

We went to the panto at MK Theatre yesterday which was brilliant. Stu got to meet the cast after the show, whilst I had to dash off to be body painted for our Chrimbo party – you can see him with them here and it was our LAST DAVE OF CHRISTMAS, which we did in style. Have a listen below to hear who it was.

We’re off now on our Christmas antics, Stu going to Madiera I’m going to Manchester, via Warwickshire – but we’ll be back on Tues 3rd Jan bringing 2012 in, in style.

Enjoy yourselves

Stu & Nat x

Thursday 22nd December

We had some hilarious tales of your fancy dress efforts today including Carrie’s Bjork swan dress, Barry in Northampton’s homemade BigBird and Steve from 1st Reaction Security who was wrapped in bandages carrying a box of  Milk Tray – bless! We wanted to know what you’re outfits had been as tonight it’s our Christmas party with a James Bond theme. Yes we know it’s not that original, so we’ve decided to make our outfits as random as possible. Stu announced he’s attaching two yellow car sponges on his derrier to be ‘The Man with the Golden Bum’!! Producer Josh let us down saying he was wearing the rabbit outfit he had for the Easter Bunny. Stu came to the rescue being the comedic genius he is so Josh is now ‘Miss Bunny Penny’.. love it. I’m being body painted this afternoon, so I will be ‘The Girl with the Golden Gun’. The BF was slightly concerned with my tweets about my body painting, as I told Stuart, who secretly recorded me – listen below… and you can hear our penultimate operatic Dave from Flitwick as part of our 12 Daves of Christmas.

Last one tomorrow and we’ll tell you about our Christmas party and show your photos!

See you then

Natalie x x

Wednesday 21st December

What do you do with the  Christmas gifts you don’t actually want?  Are you one of those people who re-gifts and sends them on to someone else next year?   It turns out that plenty of you are but it is a bit of a minefield as our caller Helen explained.

Are you enjoying our 12 Daves of Christmas song don’t miss it on Friday as we have a Dave of high office in the meantime here how Dave from Bedford wowed us with his performance as the 10th Dave this morning.

Also on Friday we have Santa on the show talking to your children before he leaves the North Pole and it’s not too late to register on our breakfast pages right now!

See you in the morning

Stuart x x

Tuesday 20th December

Did you hear our 9th Dave on the show today? We’re counting down the days until the end of the week with our 12 Dave’s and it was MK today – have a listen below to enjoy and on Friday we have a very important Dave, in fact he’s one in High Office… who could it be.

We also had a humongous debate on the show as to whether you should buy your pet a Christmas. You can see Nellie, Stu’s dog, sporting her Christmas hoodie in this picture. Mixed opinions on it being a good idea and also the things you buy your pets range from fancy food to flashing bow ties and sheepskin coats. Mark in Northampton has gone one step further, have a listen.

We’ll be back in the morning from 6 with more Sleeps till Santa of course and our very own Heart Breakfast Big Town Showdown Challenge. So far, I’m in the lead on 34.1 secs, Stu had a go today, but came in at 46.1 – tomorrow it’s our newsman John Stratford’s turn… then Producer Josh on Thurs… ME TO WIN….ME TO WIN!!!

See you in the morning

Natalie  x x

Monday 19th December

Jimmy Carr was on the show this morning to promote his new DVD (the one with the pink case!) and told us how he starts his Christmas day with crunchy nut cornflakes and  Baileys together!  I,m not sure that’s a great idea but as he is not a fan of the queens speech maybe it numbs the pain slightly?  Hear Jimmy on the show again right here!

Every morning at 5 past eight in the run up to Christmas we have our 12 Daves of Christmas song!  What a fine selection of Daves we have had so far and I hear a rumour that our final Dave this Friday might even be of high office! Meanwhile have a listen below to the special singing skills of all our Daves so far.

See you in the morning

Stu x x

Friday 16th December

Yesterday, I got to train with Hope Powell and some of the England Women’s footy team, which was great fun. Much harder than I imagined, but then I’ve only ever kicked a ball about in the garden with my nephews! It was all thanks to Vauxhall who sponsor the Women’s team and they kitted us out in the proper gear, which was nice and warm as it was PRETTY NIPPY! I had my new spanking yellow trainers on, which Hope Powell said were hideous, but I like bright colours and they helped! We spent a good 45 min running around, doing the drills the ladies do, although I know for a fact they weren’t nearly as tough as I’m sure they really are in training. See how I did here https://www.facebook.com/HeartHomeCounties#!/HeartHomeCounties THE PENALTY SHOOT OUT...

Also we crowned our Big Town Showdown winner – Joanne in Stotfold, listen to her finding out below..

So there’s been some snow today, lots of you getting in touch to tell us you’ve had some of the white stuff, feel free to start posting pictures on our facebook page of your Festive scenes.

Enjoy the weekend, we’ll be back on Monday

Nat x   x

 

Thursday 15th December

Why is Stephen Fry getting naked? 

Today we heard from Stephen on getting his kit off in the new Sherlock movie but he thought no one would be interested.  We thought that it might be a bit like that scene from friends when they all use to get their binoculars out!  Here what Stephen has to say on his naked scenes right here.

Ever heard of someone going on a man diet apparently that was the advice Natalie’s pal was given during the festive period, in other words no dating allowed!  I’m not sure about this man diet I thought Christmas was a time of feasting and with all that mistletoe around surely singles should take advantage of things.

Luckily our relationship expert Susan Quilliam was on hand to put us straight on the matter.  Have a listen below it’ll put a smile on your face!

Back tomorrow with the Friday song!

Stu x

Wednesday 14th December

This morning Stu was a bit of a damsel in distress, his tyre blew out on route to the show, so he had to wait for a very nice man from the AA to show up. Then our boss turned up and firstly scared him by knocking on her window but lent Stu his fancy car to get him to work! RESULT!

In his absence The Jarv stepped in, he’ll be back with you at 4pm today, once he’s had another nap!

Our Chrimbo panto continued and you can hear the latest episode here...it's got Stephen Merchant in it! Tmw I’m off to play footy with the England Women’s football team – eek! Hope they’re nice to me

See you in the morning at 6am

Nat x

Tuesday 13th December

Morning, windy isn’t it. Hope you’ve not been blown around too much, Stu said bad wind kept him up all night!! It was the second episode of our Heart Breakfast panto today, once again we’ve demonstrated our brilliant acting ablity which you may have missed – so you can have a listen here and see who else you can sport in there…  There will be another episode tomorrow at 6.20 and 8.20am.

See you then

Natalie x

 Monday 12th December

 What a weekend it has been Jason Donovan making it to the Strictly final and Little Mix winning the X Factor. We had the first play of the X factor winners single this morning and fingers crossed we will be hearing from Little Mix on Heart Breakfast soon. 

 

 It’s Panto season and once again we will be slapping our thighs and rubbing our lamps in preparation for this years Heart Breakfast  Pantomime. This year it’s Aladdin featuring a whole host of celebrities and you can hear the next episode tomorrow morning at 8.20.  We thought we had better get some expert advice and who better then the stars of Aladdin at the MK theatre this year Gareth Gates and from Britain’s got Talent Paul Burling, check it out below

 

See you in the morning

Stu x  click here  

 

Friday 9th December

This morning the studio was invaded by six fit rowers who are undertaking an amazing challenge for our Have a Heart appeal.  They are planning the gruelling challenge of rowing across the Atlantic in less than 30 days. 

They have calculated the speed at which they need to constantly travel inorder to complete the challenge and each rower will row in two hour shifts. Massive respect for these guys and details on how you can donate can be found on our Have a Heart pages.  They were accompanied by Olympic Rowing Gold medallist Tim Foster who told us just how much of a challenge this was.  Have a listen to the fun we had with them including whether they might actually row naked! 

See you Monday!

Stuart x

Thursday 8th December

Morning, feels a little warmer today hey – I am still rocking out the layers, and today have managed to recreate Olivia Newton John’s look at the end of Grease – wearing a pair of black tights that almost come up to my neck! No – there’s no picture, I’m too modest!! Note to self, at 5ft 4, i really should buy smaller tights! Who’d have thought the humble Nativity could get so creative! After my pals have been telling me about their little ones performing as aliens, mince pies, some were even line dancing, we had to find our the weird and wonderful characters you’ve played or witnessed in nativity. We never imagined the list would range from French speaking camels, crackers, Christmas cards, Puff the Magic Dragon – even a rapping Jesus. Have a listen to this.. also we’ve started out countdown  for our  12 Daves of Christmas, so if you are called Dave or you know a Dave, email us your details on the contact us form with where you live and we’ll get you on the show.  Finally, check out this brilliant video of 'Bethlehemian Rhapsody'!!!

See you in the morning at 6am.

Natalie  x

Tuesday 6th December

 Are Christmas cards a waste of time? This all got a bit heated on Heart Breakfast this morning!

Stu x

 

Monday 5th December

How was your weekend did you start some Christmas shopping?  Don’t do what I did and end up getting seduced in a Christmas shop by a two foot high tartan Rudolph and spending money on something that I should be spending on someone else! Mind you it does look rather dapper under the tree. 

We had our favourite boys JLS on the show this morning and they were on great form.  They have a new single out called take a chance on me so as well as finding out more about the album we thought we’d play one of our Heart Breakfast games.  This one was called Take a chance on….She, basically just a good chance to find out all sorts of gossip from the boys on who they would and wouldn’t date!

Have a listen below and see you in the morning

Stu x

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Friday 2nd December

On the show today we had a very tall and funny man – Stephen Merchant talking about ladies… that’s what his new tour is all about and the DVD is out now… ! Maybe you saw him in MK or Northants, if so hope you enjoyed it. Have a listen to our chat with him about James Bond below and make sure you join us on Monday as our Sleeps till Santa song continues and we’re constantly looking for children who would like to introduce it each morning. If you have a little person in mind, why not email Producer Josh and give you him your details and we’ll get them on the show.

I’m off to a wedding this weekend and then first Xmas party.. and Stu is going up to bonny Scotland, for a nice romantic weekend to celebrate his partner’s b’day.

We’ll be back waking you up from 6am on Monday – have a super duper weekend

Natalie x

Thursday 1st December

 24 sleeps to go 24 sleeps till Santa!  This morning we officially launched our Coundown to Christmas on Heart Breakfast with our Sleeps till Santa song!  Lovely Zac who is 7 called us up as he has been practicing with his brothers and sisters on how to sing the song so for Zach and for anyone else who wants to practice you can listen tomorrow morning at 6.30,7.30 or 8.30 for our next instalment!

We had a chat this morning with the lovely Rebecca Ferguson who it seems has had a really busy year writing her new Album.  As you probably know Rebecca is from Liverpool and we were a bit obsessed by her gorgeous accent in fact Natalie even tried to perfect her own version.  Find out how we got on by having a listen below!

See you in the morning

Stuart x

Wednesday 30th November

On the show today, I was flying the curly hair flag, as Stephanie Powers, whilst in the jungle had been struggling to deal with her frizz and the paper’s had been talking about curly hair being a curse! Now obviously as someone with a curly barnet I was outraged and it seems a lot of you are happy with your curls.. Georgina in particular… listen below. Also we had a funny snippet of a rather demanding porcupine – who’d have thought they like corn…. And chicken??

And of course I flew yesterday – check out my video at www.facebook.com/hearthomecounties . I went to The Castle in Wellingborough where they’re showing Peter Pan next week and got to try something I’ve always wanted to do, ever since I saw Bonnie Langford as Peter Pan.. she inspired me… sadly I’m now quite as graceful, but hey gotta start somewhere!!

Make sure you join us tomorrow as we launch SLEEPS TILL SANTA!!!

Enjoy your day

Natalie x    x

Tuesday 29th November

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 Monday 28th November

  How was your weekend?  We had a great time switching on Christmas lights in Hitchin and Hatfield plus in Harpenden this included a ride in a Cinderella Coach with Toyah Wilcox.  Natalie’s boyfriend said when we got into the carriage together it looked like we were getting married….awkward!  Thanks to everyone who came to see us over the weekend and be sure to check out all the photos which are online here right now.

Olly Murs is apparently no stranger to taking his clothes off but he had forgotten his naked promise when he was on with us last time!   So we thought it was our duty to remind him of his promise to streak during the Queens speech!   To find out what he had to say  have a listen below.

See you in the morning

Stu x

Friday 25th November

Today we told you what your sandwich says about you, have a listen below but here are main Eight Key Sandwich Personalities – now do feel free to adapt them slightly to suit your…

The Tuna and Sweetcorn on White Bread: “High Flyers”  Individuals that pick tuna and sweetcorn on white bread love order, routine and targets. They can often find it hard to relax, work ahead of deadlines, can be high achievers and have a tendency to believe they are always right. They enjoy a range of hobbies and seek friends who share the same drive and beliefs as them. 

The Prawn on Brown Bread: “Sensitive Souls”  Those who pick a prawn sandwich on brown bread are friendly and tactful in any situation. They are sensitive and tend to be very unsettled by conflict. The need to agree with others can make them easily led. They love fashion and shopping and seek friends with a good sense of humour.

The Ham Salad on White Bread: “Forward Thinkers”  The ham salad on white bread lover often spends time thinking about their future. They are inventive and original. A real love of physical activity and the outdoors, they gain inspiration from their surroundings at the expense of observing and experiencing them.

The Chicken Salad Wrap: “Extroverts” Those who pick a chicken salad wrap are sociable and talkative and thrive on interaction with the outside world. They do tend to act without thinking things through. They enjoy spending time watching sports and seek a partner with a strong career success.

The Egg Mayo on Wholemeal Bread: “Home Bodies”  Those who prefer an egg mayo on wholemeal are reflective, quiet people, they like to spend time alone and are motivated by private, internal goals. They find social situations draining and instead prefer to spend time at home. In a partner they seek someone with similar interests and values to themselves.

The BLT on Seeded Bread: “Opportunists”  The BLT on seeded bread eater lives in the now, believing that experience speaks louder than words. Those that pick this sandwich are often self-indulgent and materialistic. They love eating out, films and live music. A good sense of humour in friends and partners is a must.

The Cheese and Pickle as it comes: “Brainiacs”  Those who go for the classic cheese and pickle are logical planners who like to surround themselves with successful people. They tend to be good at tasks and will always tell the truth no matter how tactless it may seem. They love solving things and are a fan of games and puzzles.

The Beef Roll: “Impulsives”  The beef roll lover acts first and then thinks later. They love to solve problems and are great at multi-tasking. They often have an unwillingness to commit to anything that will interfere with their freedom. In a partner they seek someone who is attractive and they enjoy the thrill of spectator sports

We’re out and about in Hatfield and Harpenden over the weekend, switching on Xmas lights so do come say hello if you’re around and see you Monday.

Natalie x

Thursday 24th November

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas here on Heart Breakfast!  Tonight we are off to switch on the Christmas Lights at Welwyn and that always makes us feel that Christmas has started. 

You told us about mulled wine and cinnamon plug ins, mulled wine down the pub and cut price tins of chocolate which all make you feel Christmas has started.  Then we heard from Alan in Leighton Buzzard who wasn’t a big fan of Christmas so we thought we had better try and make him feel a bit more festive.   I then followed this up with a very personal message from my mate Santa to Natalie but it turns out she has been a bit naughty this year!  To find out why have a listen below!

Is it to early to wish you Happy Christmas?

See you in the morning!

S x

Wednesday 23rd November

Morning, how are you? I had a very indulgent afternoon yesterday watching old films, have you seen Brighton Rock. Definitely one to now tick off my list… I was intermittently looking at Xmas pressie’s as the BF has been super organised and already ordered them, so much so that Royal Mail are now delivering the notes telling us we’ve now got to pick them up… a sure sign Xmas is on the way… We’ll be finding out what makes you feel chrismassy on tomorrow’s show.. Also today we tried to set Stuart’s sister up, as he’s decided she needs some help – she knows nothing about it but we’ve had the offer of a football team, so watch this space! We were also being entertained by the idea of Rachel Stevens and her new job singing kiddies songs about eating healthily and Stu got carried away ! Have a listen below…

Nat x

Tuesday 20th November

Today we proved why men really should be fearful of a woman’s handbag!  For a start they seem to fit so many things inside just like the bag Mary Poppins used to have!

Jackie in Northampton called us up to say if she had a bag like that she would carry around Michael Buble in it. Not sure how he would feel about that but it would be useful to pull him out when shopping as some sort of portable busker.  

With some trepidation I started routing through Natalie’s handbag this morning so in retaliation she grabbed my bag and it really was a case of handbags at dawn! Here how we got on right here!

Have a great day and stay safe on the roads as it has been quite a morning!

S x

Monday 19th November

 Morning – well Stuart and I were recovering from our celebrity spot at Luton Mall yesterday. Not only was Rastamouse and ‘Arg’ from The Only Way is Essex there to help us turn on the lights, but we were also wowed by some Harry Potter magic as local boy Rupert Grint came along to support his sister Samantha as she was singing as one of our acts. He was lovely telling us how he’s enjoying a very chilled lifestyle at the moment and being allowed to do what he wants with his hair and being allowed to go skiing!!

Then on the show this morning we had comedy royalty as John Cleese was telling us about his recent Allimony tour and his love of lemur’s have a listen below.

We’ll be back on the show tomorrow from 6am

Have a good day

Natalie X 

Friday 18th November

When has forgetfulness landed you in trouble?  I struggle to remember my partner’s birthday and Natalie thinks her anniversary might be june….ish!  These will definitely land us in trouble if we don’t sort it out!  Today I even forgot my pants well actually it was more that I forgot to take them out of the room where I have guests staying at the moment and was to scared to go in this morning and wake them up.  We had some amazing stories but I think the most shocking was from Karen in Bedford, have a listen below it’s a great anti-smoking campaign!

Every weekday just after 6.30 we play text in the blank where you can win yourself a Heart Mug just for being a bit creative at the crack of dawn! Today we chatted about TOWIE'S Lauren and her 'interesting' dress choice. Want to know more check out the details HERE

See you Monday!

S x

   

Thursday 17th November

  It was a Twi-fest this morning on the show as last night, saw the premiere of Breaking Dawn Part 1 at the Westfield Shopping Centre  - make sure you have a look at all the pictures we’ve got here, as you can see from this one there was a lot of Twi-hards who had been camping out in anticipation! We sent out showbiz editor Charlie Girling along , and I was tweeting her whilst she was on the red carpet, in excitement as she was sharing photos of RPatz and Taylor Lautner.. I felt rather old getting excited but you gotta haven’t you. So listen to what she told us below – and go see the movie out on Friday!! Also on the show today we were asking whether you knew someone who’s name matched their job. This was after our boss had told us about Ian Row – from Bedford who is going to be rowing across the Atlantic to raise money for our Have a Heart appeal – which is AMAZING! You also knew lots of people who’s name matched their jobs, listen below..

And don’t miss us in the morning, as we’re finding out when your forgetfulness has got you into trouble after I read a tweet from Dixie’s Cupcakery in St Albans, who had forgotten to bake her hubby a cake on his b’day – despite being surrounded by them! Oops!

See you in the morning from 6am

Nat x x

Wednesday 16th November

Twi-harders brace yourself the penultimate instalment is coming! 

Tonight sees the premier of the latest twilight movie and our very own showbiz editor Charlie Girling will be on the red carpet tonight and will bring us all the exclusive gossip form the premiere tomorrow morning at 7.35.

To be honest I think Natalie is a little more excited about this movie than I am something to do with Rpatz?!

We heard how he had taken Taylor Lautner aka Jacob and shown him some British ways like marmite which Taylor didn’t get.  We think this may be because he thought it was fake tan, a little dark with a funny smell but hey that’s fake tan for you.

Kristin Stewart is feeling emotional about the final movie and said she wouldn’t miss tonights premiere for the world.  Hear why she gave up the supermarket checkout for the premiere below!

Have a good day

S  x

Tuesday 15th November

On the show today we spoke to Jane Holmes who is soon to be Jane Feehily as she is so devoted to Westlife, she’s changing her name by deedpole! The story doesn’t stop there. We spoke to Jane after reading her story in the paper, as her husband gave her an ultimatum ‘It’s Westlife of me’…. And she picked the boyband. Listen to what she had to say here….

We’ll be back in the morning talking about parents… and how they interfere….

See you in the morning from 6am

Nat x

Monday 14th November

 How was your weekend? 

Was it chav chic like Natalie with her champagne and pizza combo or was it vintage showbusiness like myself with a Blue Peter reunion which was great fun?

Also today the new invention that is supposed to make your Christmas easier the pop-up Christmas tree complete with baubles!

I am not sure about this because if it pops up too violently I can see baubles flying everywhere and ending up in the Christmas pudding and remember what pops up what must pop down!

Dannii Minogue was on the show this morning which I was thrilled about as over the years I have kind of stalked her (not intentionally)!  Find out all about that plus some amazing style tips for you from Dannii which you might find useful.

See you in the morning.

Stu x

Friday 11th November

So Gary Barlow and Loius Walsh could be fighting on TV tomorrow night after Barlow accused him of not helping the whole Frankie situation with his harsh words on Frankie’s talent. I have a feeling everyone is going to be glued to it this weekend!

Meanwhile how do you fancy squeezing Brad Pitts bottom apparently you can but only if it’s  his waxwork at Madam Tussuads.  This morning you helped us design some more interactive waxworks like a pale Peter Andre or a  Gok Wan dressed in a shellsuit although we think he would probably rather go naked than wear that!

Loads of great movies out this weekend and if the weather is not so good why not check out the latest movie releases?  Our showbiz editor Charlie Girling was on hand this morning to talk us through Johnny Depp’s latest offering and we had a few things we wanted to ask her about him!

Have a listen below.

Stu x

Thursday 10th November

This morning we had the Great tea debate on Heart Breakfast!  There is nothing worse than when someone presents you with a bad cuppa, you know when it’s the same colour as dishwater and tastes of hot milk.

I like to think that my tea making skills are pretty good and this morning I thought I’d prove it by going on to Masterchef, hear how I got on below!

Stu x

Wednesday 9th November

On the show today we were shocked at the showbiz reactions to the news that Frankie Cocozza has been booted out of X Factor and also the Production staff as desperately looking for a replacement – have a listen below. Also we had Danni Minogue telling us about her son’s Fendi shoes, as we were finding out whether you think kids are better dressed than you… it seems we were all guilty of hand me downs in our day… which we definitely want to know more about.. I was guilty of wearing fake Ralph Lauren shirts at one point and Producer Josh had his mum sew Nike tick on a polo neck! Stuart’s mum dressed him like the kid in About a Boy… lets hope the piccies stay buried for now!

On the show tomorrow we’re having the Great Tea Debate, so do join in.

See you then

Natalie  x    x

Tuesday 8th November

Producer Josh has a theory about what you get up to in bed!

When he was single he slept near the window but now he has a girlfriend he sleeps near the door and his theory is that if you sleep near the door you are the protector in the relationship!  It’s not something you do consciously it just happens but the protector doesn’t necessarily have to be the man!

I always sleep by the door even if I am in a hotel but Natalie is a window girl or as we named them the escapee!  Have we proved this theory to be right or wrong well there was plenty of debate going on for sure this morning.  Some of you just said they preferred the window because of the air and others preferred the door for a quick escape!  We thought we had better find out from our relationship expert  http://www.susanquilliam.com/    whether there was anything in it or not?  Have a listen below to hear how we got on.

Stu x

Monday 7th November

It was an eventful weekend with fireworks galore – hope you had fun, and do make sure you check out the galleries if you joined us at Bedford, Wickstead, Luton or Stevenage right HERE . I was at a friends fireworks on Sunday night, to celebrate my friends baby’s first ever fireworks and despite the fireworks apparently being child friendly, the little girl was screaming as soon as the first one was let off. The rabbit fur earmuffs, her auntie had given her, despite looking very cute, didn’t really offer enough protection, so the display was brief! Stuart learnt about Bonfire toffee – I can’t believe he’s never had it, I would have made some specially.. you can’t beat a bit of tooth breaking syrup filled toffee can you!. You were telling us about your weekend’s and Barry in Northampton admitted to already putting up his Xmas tree and we had David Walliams on the show talking about his new book – have a listen below. The ‘aaah’ moment was really when we heard about a marriage proposal that happened on a train from Euston to Watford last week – check this out if you’re wanting to pop the question and want some inspiration!

We’ll be back tomorrow morning, with a theory about which side of the bed you sleep!

See you then

Natalie x    x

Friday 4th November

So how do you know you’re in the doghouse?

Is it the look or the huff or the cold shoulder hug?  You told us the ways you knew you were in the doghouse subtle things like the suitcase outside the door from Brian in Northampton!  In fact for some bizarre reason we had lots of texts today from men, it’s as if they are in the dog house all the time!!

If you want to know how Natalie and I know if each other are in the doghouse listen below to find out.

Have a great weekend, stay safe with all the fireworks events and it’s not too late to check out our firework finder HERE for all the details. See you on Monday!

S x

Thursday 3rd November

I loved today’s show – as we were talking about the saying you just don’t get and you were amazing at explaining them to us. Amy explained about ‘Never look a gift horse in the mouth’ You can tell the age and health of a horse by looking at its teeth. So it means, if someone's nice enough to give you a horse for free, don't be ungrateful and start checking whether it's any good or not! In other words, if someone gives you something, accept it and don't be picky! Sandra told us about what the ‘Bees knees’ means as apparently bees cary polen on their legs (knees),pollen is yellow like gold,gold makes u rich...its a good saying . Sharon explained ‘less haste more speed’ I think the less haste more speed saying means to do something quickly,but in a controlled way,rather than a mad rush..  and we loved  KitKat in MK’s explanation of  ‘Get’s my goat!’ –have  a listen below .

Now we do try to be sympathetic on heart Breakfast and we opened up a helpline for the Banker who has earned over £8million but has been signed off for stress… really???

We’ll be back tomorrow from 6am finding out… you know you’re in the doghouse when… tell us on our facebook page.. .

https://www.facebook.com/HeartHomeCounties

See you in the morning from 6am

Natalie x     x

Wednesday 2nd November

Am I the only one who talks to things that can’t talk back?  Judging from the reaction from you this morning clearly not! 

I talk to my car offering words of encouragement which seems to be a fairly common one but we had some really unusual ones too like Jules from Rushden who talks to her fish and Kelly from MK who always likes to strike up a conversation with the supermarket checkout.

As for Natalie well it seems she is having a conversation with her jeans.  Have a listen below to find out exactly what’s going on.

See you in the morning

S x

Tuesday 1st November

  Stu and I had a pumpkin off, you can see a video of my attempt at www.facebook.com/hearthomecounties as I slightly failed in my pumpkin purchase ( I thought Producer Josh was getting me one) They’d run out at my local supermarket by 3pm yesterday, so I had to settle for a squash. Stuart excelled in the challenge, picking a HOME GROWN one from his allotment and creating me – I LOVE IT!!

Producer Josh tweeted the other day that he was enjoying a bubble bath a beer whilst listening to Beyonce! This got us chatting about the bath time buddies you have. I really want to see Stu’s heart shaped bath pillow now! Check me out in the bath!!

We also had a giggle about the wine snob ghost at a pub in Birmingham who apparently smashes any wines on the list, that aren’t up to scratch! Known as Corky, this wine conessieur of the ghost world, only makes himself known at Halloween- have a listen below …
Tomorrow we’ll be finding out what you talk to that can’t talk back… ha – I often talk, in a pleading manner to computers that I seem to crash!

Enjoy your Tuesday, and pinch and a punch for the first of the month

Natalie X

Monday 31st October

I hope you remembered to put your clocks back at the weekend and didn’t jump in your car this morning and freak out because you hadn’t changed that clock and thought you were late!! 

It’s Halloween and all weekend we have seen the most incredible carved Pumpkins so Natalie and I thought we had better up our game.  Producer Josh has challenged us to a Pumpkin-off so tonight we will be busily trying to carve the best Pumpkin and you can decide which is the best in the morning. The rules are it doesn’t have to be a traditional carved pumpkin, the more outlandish the better it could even be a celebrity...an orange Jordan for example!  Here how it all started below.

Have a great day

S x

Friday 28th October

So it’s was a spooky themed show today as Halloween is just around the corner – check out the MJ video on our facebook page www.facebook.com/hearthomecounties - it made Stu and I jump out of our skin! We decided to come up with a spooky themed Friday song, well I did and the boys agreed, have a listen to Ghostbusters – Heart Breakfast styley… and out final exert from Smokey the Cat..

Natalie x x

Thursday 27th October

Everyone has their 15 minutes of fame but on this mornings show between us we only managed 3 minutes between us! 

Myself and Producer Josh ended up on the new Peter Andre show with me looking very pale and Natalie appeared in a lift scene in an episode of ER…fairly impressive till the lift doors closed!  However you managed to trump us with your stories of appearances on Who wants to be a Millionaire Rolf’s Cartoon Club and even Blind Date!

Have a listen below to hear how Jo from Northampton got on with Cilla.

If you’ve been following our serialisation of Smoky the loudest purring cat todays episode is a corker…jealousy, envy betrayal and cat litter it has it all!   Have a listen right here!

Have a great day!

S  x    x

Wednesday 26th October

Well today it was all about the simple things you can’t do – for Stuart it’s catching, I seem to get words wrong like cutlery  listen below - i blame my MUM. I’m not alone, you’ve been struggling with words like theory / pedigree… Jo in Newport Pagnell can’t open plastic bags, Jen in Northants can’t read maps and Kath in Luton battles with clingfilm on a daily basis – we tried to suggest Tupperware. Also we serialised once again our local feline hero – Smokey – listen below.

Back tomorrow finding out when you’ve been on TV. You’re a superstar we know!

See you then

Natalie X  X

Tuesday 25th October

87% of women say they would not date a shorter man and included in this is Natalie B even though her dad is shorter than her mum!  Loads of you agreed so I felt the need to fly the flag for the shorter man, after all there are only 13% of available women left!  I did however manage to tempt Natalie with a few short celebrity males people like Michael J Fox and Mark Owen in fact there were a total of 7 of them!  It reminded me of that classic Snow white moment ‘HiHo  HiHo it’s back to Nats we go!’

Chris Martin and Gary Barlow were at the Q awards in London yesterday and it turns out there is a bit of a Bromance going on, could this mean the two bands are joining together find out more by listening below?

Finally if you’ve been following our series on Northamptons Smoky the Cat, the cat with the worlds loudest purr, then check out episode two of our serialisation right here!

Have a great day and find out tomorrow why I am definitely not a good catch!

See you in the morning

S  x x

Monday 24th October

Morning,

So Stu and I are back from a week off, he was in the Algarve enjoying a private Villa and pool – I was in St Albans, doing lots of hot yoga and I reckon sweating my body weight, which is always a good look! We both refreshed and happy to be back, to hear what’s new with you. After Stu admitted though to finding out what a ‘bucket list’ is and also telling me he’d finally overcome his fear of aeroplane loos… Bare with me on this one, so Stu had been told you were at risk of being sucked into an aeroplane loo if you flushed it without the loo down… so on his flight back to Luton on Saturday, he dared to do it.. .and live to tell the tale! It’s not just him being a bit silly though – it took me a while to realise that ‘Time Out’ the guide is actually referring to Time Out…. Going out… who’d have thought! You told us about the simple things you should have known but have only just found out… Carly really surprised us… have a listen below..

Also hear episode 1 of our Serialisation of ‘Smokey – The Very Loud Purring Cat’….

Whilst we’ve got you here, why not register for the Big Town Show Down HERE as all this week we’ve got family passes to win for the Monster Mash in Bedford, this Saturday night.

We’ll be back tomorrow

See you then

Natalie x   X

 

Friday 14th October

It’s Friday – yeeeey! Stu and I have a week off next week, he’s of to the Algarve I’m having a staycation in St Albans, where I’ll be practicising my Geordie as I’m started accent training with a posh coach lady who works with actors and everything. I certainly need the help and on the show this morning, I demonstrated just how poor my Geordie is, whilst we were chatting to impressionist Paul Burling have a listen below:

 We’re leaving you in the safe birthday filled hands of Matt Jarvis, he’s 21 today !! He’s got an amazing ticket giveaway next week, so make sure you tune in to hear him and we’ll be back the following Monday.

 Missing you already

Natalie x

 

 

Thursday 13th October

When we heard that Angelina Jolie had taken two of her children to get their ears pierced aged 5 and 6 Natalie remembered she had to wait until she was 16 and even then she went behind her mums back!  It’s funny the things you did that your parents said no to like the red sauce I was told never to touch and still tried, only to find out to my cost it was chilli sauce!  Then there is Jane from Dunstable who actually crept out of the house to go clubbing with her boyfriend but things backfired a little when her dad actually followed her to the club!  Hear what happened below!

Make sure you are listening just after 8.00am tomorrow morning to find out who Heart’s Artist of the Year 2011 is and how YOU could see him perform exclusively for Heart!

See you in the morning

S x

Wednesday 12th October

   Yesterday I attempted to conquer my fear of spiders, not with a faithful horse chesnut but by taking up the challenge on of you text in to go to Wrigglies in Dunstable and hold a tarantula – see photographic proof!

Today we wanted to hear about your perfect jobs on the show today after we heard about Natalie Thomas the ‘Director of Bed Bouncing’ listen below

Nx

 

 

Tuesday 11th October

We’ve seen more spiders than ever before this year which makes me happy and Natalie freak out!  Like loads of you Natalie is terrified of spiders but they don’t really bother me unless it’s a tarantula!

We heard so many terrifying spider encounters from you this morning but one common theme seemed  to be the use of the vacuum cleaner as a weapon!  The only problem with that is someone has got to empty the bag however Natalie in our newsroom had the solution. She was so terrified when it happened to her she put sticky tape on the end of the vacuum cleaner nozzle so it wouldn’t get out!

When it comes to dealing with spiders there is only one man for the job it’s Spiderman although it turns out he may not be as good as we thought.

Have a listen below to find out why!

 

Monday 10th October

Happy Monday – I’m back another year older, but with my AMAZING new satchel from the BF, which I love, and a brilliant kitch necklace too. Stu had a rather amusing weekend, in Cornwall. Listen below to why a bit of indigestion left to him exclaiming‘I’m a laaaady’!

We also had Gareth Gates on the show, who is appearing in Aladin at the MK Theatre next month. We were testing his panto knowledge and below is how he did when it came to naming the 7 dwarfs!

We’re back tomorrow with another chance for you to get into a draw to win an amazing Villa holiday in the sunny Algarve, with Villa Plus.com.

See you in the morning

Natalie x x

 

Friday 7th October

This morning we really put the feel good into Friday finding out the little things that make you happy! Just simple stuff like finding a £10 note in your wallet hidden away when you thought you had no money or waking up thinking it’s Wednesday and then realising it’s Friday!  There were so many of these that we thought it best to round them all up in a song and I think you’ll recognise it!  Have a listen below as it is guaranteed to put a smile on your face this Friday!

Will Young was with us this morning and amongst other things he admitted his similarity to Joan Collins!  If you want to find out why check out our interview with him here! 

Have a fabulous weekend and Happy Birthday to Natalie who is eating cupcakes in celebration all weekend!

See you on Monday

S  x

Here's the song which will put a smile on your face x   

Thursday 6th October

On the show today we heard about when you’ve had to apologise for your pet – Stuart has had a week at home with his dog Nellie and has had to be apologising to the neighbours about her rather loud and human like wind breaking! You told us some very funny stories and you can have a look through them here www.facebook.com/hearthomecounties . We were in hysterics at Rob’s tale about his Mum’s Yorkshire accent getting her into trouble when trying to tell a friend about the death of her bird.. have a listen below.

We’ve got Will Young on the show tomorrow, to round off our busy week of interviews with James Corden and Steps – make sure you scroll down and you can hear all that’s gone on this week.

See you tomorrow

Natalie  x

 

Wednesday 5th October

Today we asked you what you’d bring back from years ago?  Personally I am loving the Steps Reunion show on Sky Living they were a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine and it seems one of yours too!  Jan wanted to bring back Bazooka bubblegum  and Jen said not having to shave!  Carol wanted to bring back Coconut feasts and all Martin wanted to bring back was his hair and his teeth lol!

Amazing reaction to our James Corden Interview this morning where we quizzed him about his new autobiography ‘May I have your Attention Please’.

A very funny man, have a listen below and put a smile on your face this Wednesday!

See you in the morning

Stu x

Tuesday 4th October

So on the show today we were talking about being posh as tonight it’s a Euromillions jackpot of £85million. Now I know I’d be great with all that money –I’d be a very gracious rich person and even spray you with some of my champagne, as I learnt to do last week! Must say I got more of it all over me, so I definitely need more practice! Stu and I felt it necessary to get the help of an etiquette expert – so William Hanson www.williamhanson.co.uk – came on the show to answer our questions and yours so we can all try and be a bit more posh. Hear what William advised below. Also with the news that Gordon Ramsey is to open a new beauty salon we couldn’t help but wonder what it would be like?!

Back tomorrow with another chance for you to win a totally chilled weekend for two at the famous Whittlebury Hall Hotel and Day Spa.

See ya then

Natalie x     

Monday 3rd October

If you’re a stressed out commuter then we may have the answer! 

A train company is introducing glowsticks on board in case passengers become stranded in the winter however we reckon there may be certain passengers who could try and abuse the system and enjoy their journey home a little too much.

Click below and have a listen…all aboard the party train!

This morning we had Steps on the show following their reunion which is going down a storm on Sky Living at the moment!  It seems they have put their differences behind them and were happy to take our ‘Steps to Stardom Challenge’.  There was however one challenge they were a little reluctant to fulfil, hear how we got on trying to persuade them below!

See you in the morning

S x     

Friday 30th September

How gorgeous is the hot weather? I was in Verulamium park, applying suncream yesterday, then today on the show we were talking Christmas!! Also, on the show today, Gok Wan told us he was getting broody and we found out that Louis Walsh could be impersonating R2D2 on the X-Factor.. if you see it, he got the idea from us!

I know I said it before, but we were massively trying to avoid saying that certain ‘C’ word, which is 85 days away, despite finding out just how many of you are already buying presents, cooking cakes and getting in the festive spirit – check out our facebook page – www.facebook.com/hearthomecounties

We weren’t allowing you to say the ‘C’ word which a big loud buzzer blasting out every time you or we slipped – and even some pop stars are following our lead, hear below..

We’re back on Monday, with Steps on the show talking about their reunion and also giving you the chance to win an amazing chilled Spa weekend for two at the famous Whittlebury Hall Hotel and Day Spa near Towcester, so don’t miss that and enjoy the sunshine

Natalie x     

 

Thursday 29th September

Today we opened Dr Stuart and Dr Natalie’s love clinic after we gave Producer Josh some fantastic advice on how to be romantic after his girlfriend returned to the UK after 6 Weeks.

We asked you the things you do for love like Jacqui in Northampton who de-seeds Pomegranates for her beloved…never mind say it with flowers say it with a pomegranate! In fact when we were asking you the things you do for love we remembered that 10cc song of the same name so we thought we’d better try and remember the words, here how we got on below!

Straight to the top of the list of our favourite guests goes Justin Lee-Collins who was so funny on the show this morning.  He is in a new musical called Rock of Ages so we’d thought we’d better find out more and put him to the test when it comes to love.

See you in the morning

Stu x  

 

Wednesday 28th September

Woo hoo  How amazing is this sunshine? I was hanging out my washing at 8pm last night and our news man Jon Stratford told us he went to Tesco in his shorts and t-shirt and Stu is threatening to get his semi-skimmed legs out… Are you wearing your summer wardrobe today?

 We heard about Buddy the Surfing dog on the show today, so for text in the blank we wanted to know what other animal sports you’d like to see. Jeff in Kensworth went for Rhino rugby and we love P.J of Kents ideas for the Giraffe high jump and Gorilla weightlifting. We were also impressed to hear about Hugh Jackman’s musical talents – you know he’s in Les Mis as well as his own musical, which you can hear a snippet of below. Now on the show today we were talking about parking as there’s a new app to help you park without you having to be in the car. Now I’m the first to admit my parking isn’t great, and I’m also happy to let my BF or Stu park for me.. I know I should try harder, but life’s too short. We decided to have a Heart Breakfast car park off yesterday and you can see the results on our facebook page www.facebook.com/hearthomecounties and here more about it below:

We’ll be back in the morning, and want to hear about the lengths you’ve gone for love..

Natalie xx

Tuesday 27th September

How gorgeous is this weather!! So we had a hilarious text in the blank asking what the title of a scary fish movie would be as according to experts, Goldfish kept in glass bowls turn into vicious jaws-like creatures. Some of our favourites were ‘ American Guppy in London ‘ and Prawn of the Dead. We also had a giggle about Simon Cowell’s new cookery show being called Raw or Burnt’ and after a study has revealed that the modern man is no longer a dab hand when it comes to DIY I tested Stu on his tradesman skills.. .have a listen below

See you tomorrow from 6am – we’re talking parking skills …

Nat x

Monday 26th September

Today we revealed that Adele might be back with her boyfriend, the one that inspired her 21 album when they split! So look out for ‘Someday I’ll find someone like you…oh...it is you’ on her next album! Dame Helen Mirren was on the show today talking about her new film ‘The Debt’ and we wondered how she managed to look so amazing all the time? The truth is she doesn’t actually stress too much and often grabs the first thing in her wardrobe. So maybe a dressing gown and some Garfield slippers at the next premier Dame Helen?

James Morrison’s new album is out today and we loved having him on Heart Breakfast this morning although I did manage to wind him up about his voice! Have a listen below and see you in the morning!

Did you miss James Morrison on the show....hear it here!!
S x

Friday 23rd September

Today we found out when your kids have dropped you in it, as my nephew who is now on facebook has been picking up on comments we’d made about his Dad being slightly worse for wear… as it seems we’d undone all of my brothers hardwork convincing his son he wasn’t drunk at the time it was taken! OOPS!

Lorraine sent us a brilliant text to say – “i had been doing pole dancing lessons for fitness and had a pole in dining room, i was in a shop with my boy xmas shopping surrounded by men and there was a usb pole dancing toy and my son said mummy thats what you dance with. The men all looked at me and i died of embarrassment.” And we loved this one ‘when I was younger I used to eat all the time n my mum used to say anyone would believe she didn’t feed me, and I told a police lady that she didn’t, and the police then she came to talk to my mum! OOPS!

And make sure you check out the pictures of Beyonce looking amazing at the launch of her latest perfume in New York. she’s been talking about how she’s going to keep on working and we were guessing at what her songs might sound like in ‘mummyhood’. Have a listen below!

Congratulations to Cindy in Leighton Buzzard who won our amazing Villa Holiday, thanks to Villaplus.com on the show today – she was speechless, but I’m secretly hoping she’ll be sending the sunshine back from Lanzarote when she goes. It’s due to be a lovely weekend, so make the most of it.

We’ll be back on Monday, hearing about your weekend in  three words, so make sure you let us know what you’re doing.

See ya Mon from 6am

Natalie x

 

Thursday 22nd September

Wednesday 21st September

Yesterday I got to work a bit late – well an hour! You see my phone reset in the night and so my alarm didn’t go off! I only woke up when the BF’s alarm went off at 6am! Aah! Panic! So I bought a new wind up clock yesterday, which basically kept both me and the BF up all night, and then it didn’t even go off at 4am! So it’s going back today… .We were having a giggle about Barack Obama brewing his own beer at the White House today, on text in the blank and wanted to know what you thought it should be called. Producer Josh wanted it to be called ‘HEIN-HE-CAN!’ Martin was our favourite though with his suggestion of ‘Ale Gore!’. Also we found out that women like men who can speak a foreign language so Stuart tried to impress me with his failing language skills and we were finding out about your best phone voices as my Mum has a brilliant one and Stuart had a good old chin wag with her on the show. But you were brilliant in the Heart Breakfast listener megamix, have a listen below.

We’ll be back tomorrow with Alan Titchmarsh on the show – finding out how to salvage your garden, I think Stuart’s may be beyond rescue!.. see you at 6am tomorrow.
Natalie x

Tuesday 20th September

Today we were on the lookout for Heart Breakfast’s biggest kids!  We found plenty, like the 34 year old who still sucks her thumb, the 62 year old who goes to bed every night with her 55 year old teddy and then there was 21 year old Jess who still has her blanket or as she calls it ‘banket’ and even takes it on holiday with her! 

If you need cheering up today have a listen to this kid we discovered who is so excited now he can ride his bike that he gave this speech to his dad. Talk about a powerful speaker! We thought it was so impressive we added some rousing music to it and we crowned him the Martin Luther King of the bicycle world!

Have a listen below it will definitely put a smile on your face today!

See you in the morning

S x

Monday 19th September

So did you have a good weekend? hopefully you saw the sun and didn’t get caught in the downpour! You were telling us your weekends in 3 words as we get you to do on a Monday and Jane told us ‘Became a Mrs’ it was her wedding, which she said was perfect despite the big roll of thunder as she walked in the registry office, but the sun shone when she came out, so no bad omen there! Stuart was in his element on the show today, as it’s International talk like a Pirate day today and he was demonstrating his pirate impression, which you’ve got to listen to as it’s hilarious, you'll find it below!

Also whilst your on here check out David Beckham’s efforts to sell his new aftershave in a Target store in the states – it’s very amusing! http://www.heart.co.uk/news/today-youtube/watch-becks-go-undercover-ellen/

Tomorrow we want to hear about the childish habits you can’t help but do – I still blame teddy for all sorts of things! My pal is sucking her thumb, despite turning 34.. so what about you?

See you in the morning from 6am

Natalie x

Friday 16th September

What does the last text you sent say?  We found a woman who had kept 100,000 of her old text messages  and wondered whether any of ours  were worth keeping?  How about ‘I'm coming home, get them off now’ but it’s not what you’re thinking!  It was all about removing some wasps from a window well that’s my excuse anyway!  Chris in Milton Keynes even text the word ‘water’ back to a water company expecting to win a prize and ended up winning…wait for it  a bottle of water!

If you are fan of Colin Firth then you’ll be excited to hear all about his new movie an adaptation of that famous spy thriller ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’.  The thing is its one of those complicated plots that isn’t easy to sum up so we thought we’d try and simplify it here how we got on below!

Have a great weekend and maybe see you Saturday at the final of ‘Hertfordshire’s Got Talent’ which I am excited about hosting again this year!

S x

Thursday 15th September

On the show today we were finding out the fashion trends you don’t get as men showing their underwear has been voted one of the top 3 worst fashion trends of the decade… and Producer Josh does it every day! You told us you also didn’t get:

Big Ugg boots in summer , teenage girls wearing thick black tights under shorts, women who wear trousers under dresses or skirts and the MC Hammer style trousers on men and women - BUT loads of you had an opinion of Producer Josh and his pants, check out our facebook page HERE

With the news that cows enjoy a bit of jazz and it actually can increase milk production, you were telling us the other songs they enjoy and they were so good – we made a NOW album in honour of the almighty COW!! Now that's What I call MOOOOOSIC, have a listen below.

The sun is shining, even if its chilly and my BOILER ISN’T WORKING – grrrr… but tomorrow is Friday and next week we’re giving you the chance to win an amazing family holiday from Villa Plus, so what more could you want!

See you tomorrow from 6am

Natalie x

Wednesday 14th September
When was the last time you were randomly chatted up?  It happened to Natalie the other day in the supermarket and also to loads of you in unusual places like the opticians, bus-stops and on the train. Our favourite was from Rachel in Harpenden who was chatted up by a man on a 10 minute train ride from Harpenden to St Albans.  The next week a letter arrived at her work from this man saying ‘Will you marry me?’ She let him down gently after she had got over the shock of a man who had known her for 10 minutes wanting to marry her….it wasn’t a joke!

As far as men go though this story caught our eye this morning apparently women are more attracted to a man who sounds like Barry White! It has something to do with the deep tones so we thought we would put it to the test. Hear how we got on below. See you in the morning!

Stu x

Tuesday 13th September

  On the show today we were finding out your nicknames at school – mine was Tatty Bedspread due to my surname always being mis-spelt and my keen-ness to be called ‘Natty’ an amusing friend of mine put the two together.  Stu was called Quaker when the boys in the playround used to play fight he used to make a noise not dissimilar to a duck quacking!You had some brilliant ones and we’ve made a register of our favourites below x

We’re off to meet Will Young, don’t miss him on the show tomorrow.

Enjoy the bit of sunshine we seem to have today

Natalie x

Monday 12th September

 

Have you heard about Beyonce’s pregnancy cravings?  I think the tastiest one is a croissant filled with melted dime bar it sounds amazing!  Maybe she should do her own version of ‘Celebrity Come Dine with Me’ and we’ll have Jay-Z on to rap the menu to the other celebrities.  Katie Price has a new magazine out called ‘Katie’ and you helped us come up with some brilliant articles that she might want to include, things like’ how to fake tan and not go orange’ and ‘how to divorce a husband’!  
Special guest on Heart Breakfast this morning was Martin Clunes who was on the show ahead of a new series of the hugely popular TV series ‘Doc Martin’.   Hear how we got on chatting to him right here!

See you in the morning

Sx

Friday 9th September

On the show today, Stu admitted to being terrified of holding a baby and having no idea of how to communicate with them, I was trying to convince him it’s really not that hard… and you were brilliant with your tips.

Stu’s favourite was Alan in MK who after six kids told Stu - hold it like a beer, you'll never drop it that way!  Mary advised  -  I don't do babies myself. When asked if i want a cuddle i always do a little cough and say i've got a cold so i better not. Always works lol. And Sally said what I don't like is that people assume just because I have 2 kids of my own and I'm a teacher that I'm great with babies. When in presence of said baby, I get 'it' thrust at me and I reluctantly take 'it'. Have realised that if you you hold 'it' at arms length and act like it's a hot brick, said baby will soon cry and be taken off you pretty quickly! Job done! Oh and just for the record not all women go gooey ga ga over babies... note state of panic in someone's face when you offer your squirming bundle! Then he managed to chat to Elmo as a consultant for ultimate baby talking tips!

Check out more of your tips on our facebook page and also, one of my pieces of advice was for Stu to re-enact the classic Athena poster, you know with the hot guy holding the baby, what do you think? We had Alexandra Burke come and visit our brand new studios before playing an intimate gig at The Living Room in MK. It was fab to meet you if you were there, and if you weren’t have a listen to our interview with Alex.

Back on Monday  - I’m so looking forward to not having a ‘do’ to go to this weekend, and just staying put in St Albans with the man.. doing absolutely nothing!!

Hope you’ve got something planned, do let us know about it on Monday’s show – as we like to hear your weekend in 3 words.

Have a good one

Natalie x

 

Thursday 8th September

  This morning Natalie B was apprehended by a police officer half way through the show and taken to a makeshift jail in Luton mall.  In order for her to be released she was hoping to raise as much money as possible for a really worthwhile cause Keech Hospice care in Luton which we support as part of our Have a Heart appeal!  You helped raise loads of money by donating via text so a big thankyou to everyone who got involved it was a really fun thing to do, I think Natalie enjoyed being apprehended a bit too much!!

I’m in the middle of a fake tan dilemma “to tan or not to tan that is the question”….. is it ok for men to fake tan?  There was only one opinion that mattered fake tan guru Peter Andre, hear how I got on below!What do you reckon to this, Newcastle football team are apparently launching their own line of lingerie?  Is this for the pitch or the bedroom?  We had our own ideas have a listen to find out!

Finally if you’d like to appear on the show representing your town we are launching our search for the cleverest town across Herts, Beds, Bucks and Northants next week!  Why not register HERE and join us on the show!

Have a great day

See you in the morning x   

Wednesday 7th September

On the show this morning, we discovered why the Saturdays need to know the offside rule in football AND I admitted the most bizarrest thing that happened to me in the supermarket yesterday. I was perusing the fruit and veg when a guy propositioned me.. it was the strangest thing… he didn’t even say Hello, not that would have improved his somewhat forward proposal. Stuart found this hilarious and you can hear just how much here… Nat x

Tuesday 6th September

Would you go to Salsa classes with your partner as a bit of a hobby? That’s what Producer Josh would like to try but we reckon it’s a bad idea as you sometimes have to swap partners, also will a man really stick at it?  We had some great suggestions as to the hobbies you shouldn’t try with your partner.  You said no to Zumba, Martial arts and exercise classes!  Julie said yes to rugby though, which is perfect as she can watch whilst he plays!

We heard a great story today, Nashville has been crowned America’s manliest city thanks to its abundance of rally car racing, hunting, fishing and loads of steakhouses. We thought we’d create the womanliest city. Hear how we got on below.

Have a great day

S and N x

 

 Monday 5th September

Good morning! Natalie was away this morning so it was just me on my own today but she has promised that she’ll be back tomorrow!  This morning we found out that Mel B is letting her 12 year old daughter Phoenix name her new born baby! Not sure that’s a great idea. We decided that the baby will probably end up called Phoenix Chi 2 or Not-as-good-as-Phoenix B!

AND…..most of the kids are back to school today, really hope you didn’t get stuck in the school run traffic, but to celebrate we’re going to be playing the ‘Big Teacher Showdown’. Who will be crowned the cleverest teacher across Herts, Bed, Bucks and Northants at the end of the week? If you’re a teacher and fancy a go or maybe you want to put a teacher to the test, then get in touch with Producer Josh this week, his email address is Joshua.harris@heart.co.uk

We also discovered that Back to School is really quite simple….have a listen below.

See you tomorrow

 Stu x

Friday 2nd September

Toy Boys we salute you… Madonna has one 29 years younger, Minnie Driver’s is 11yrs and Kylie’s is 10.. mine is 3 and you were telling us about the pro’s of the younger man, they’re enthusiastic, they cook and clean and are lots of fun.. So never mind the snide Cougar comments that get thrown around, we’re loving the younger man. Sonia is 50 and her fella is 32, Helen is with a guy 17 yrs her junior.. I went out on the streets to find out what the people of St Albans thought of toyboys and was surprised a the reponses from a pair of 17 year old boys!

Well done to Claire who won tickets to our VIP party with Alexandra Burke next week, she’ll be getting glammed up to come and have a cocktail or too with Perky Burky and we’re giving you more chances to get your hands on money can’t buy invites, next week. I’m off, as I have my nephews Barmitzvah and my parents 45th wedding anniversary – you’ll be pleased to know I’m recycling bridesmaid dress for the occasions – how recession chic is that! Do tell us your ways of cutting corners with your outfits…

I’ll be back Tues – look after Stu on Monday and enjoy the Indian Summer we have this weekend!

Natalie x

 

Thursday 1st September

Are you the serial dieter, the glamour snob or the salad dodger? This morning we discovered a list of office types and you added to it!  Pauline in Mk suggested the ‘permanently packed’, you know the type who is always on holiday or about to go on one.  Julie had a whole office of serial dieters mainly because they have an office weigh in every week, as it is an accounting firm  hopefully that is the only pounds they are losing!

So a pregnant Beyonce has announced that the godfather to her new baby with Jay-Z will be Kanye West!  Can you imagine that christening, the baby arriving by hummer pram in dark glasses and what music would have been played in the church? To find out listen below.

See you in the morning x

Wednesday 31st August

Today Stu and I agreed that a sticky back plastic suite was the best way to make sure you grab as much money as possible, should a a container full of bank notes fall from a truck  - like happened in Holland, when Euro notes were literally falling from the sky!

With the news that a supermarket in London has added ipad docking stations to its trolley’s in a bid to get more men instore – Stu came up with a brilliant idea.

And, we were talking random crushes as a friend of mine had told me how she saw my teenage crush of about 2 years, with a wife a kids recently… oh well! Alia told us about when she used to take her kids to nursery in Marsh Farm in Luton and see the local postie – who funnily enough had got in touch with the show – Steve the Postie… so of course we felt it was our duty to play Cilla and get the pair talking!

We’ll be back tomorrow talking ‘Office Types’ maybe it’s a shock to the system being back at work after a break, so we want to lighten it up and compile a list of Office Types on tomorrow’s show so hope you’ll join us and get involved. I’m off to get my barnet highlighted this arvo, so will have my locks all shiny in the morn!

See you in the morning from 6am
Natalie       X

Tuesday 30th August

Hope you had an amazing Bank Holida we heard all about your weekend which included car boot sales, dog agility and me ending up being volunteered for the mini and youth registration for Luton Rugby club!  Just because my legs look like Emu when in rugby shorts do I really need to be on a child’s team?

In showbiz today it appears that Jo McEldery has a new job on the side whilst he was training for the release of his new classical album! He said training to sing classically is a bit like doing an exercise class everyday.  Have a listen and see what you think!

AND....Exciting news about Beyonce being pregnant surely she is going to refer to it at some point during one of her songs!  We reckon it might sound something like this!   See you in the morning

S x  

Friday 26th August

ON the show today we were having a wail of a time, all the clips are below for you! We laughed about the stupid warnings we get in everyday life after we heard that Virgin Atlantic flights are now going to have ‘weep warning’s’ on their inflight movies – imagine how much of a spoiler that would be!

You were telling us about the ridiculous ones you’ve seen.  Ron said  On a wheat based cereal in the allergies warning section " May Contain Wheat. Talitha told us ‘Just looked at my deodorant, one of the warnings says 'do not spray in the eyes' ...really??’ and Jo said ‘On my little boy's superman costume it says 'Warning, this does not enable you to fly' haaha’.

We also found out about Michael Buble’s latest merchandise and the chap who proposed to his girlfriend by making a comic strip for her!

Have an amazing Bank Holiday weekend, don’t forget to keep checking our blog and tell your friends about it, as well as our facebook page as next week we’ve got exciting tickets to a VIP party with Alexandra Burke for you to win.

See you Tuesday Natalie x     

 

Thursday 25th August

When Natalie was away on holiday she caught sight of her boyfriends parents sunbathing naked and in particular his dads bottom!  You told us when you have seen more than you should have this summer and what great stories including Chris the gardener from St Neots who walked into the garden to find the lady of the house sunbathing naked.  Luckily he didn’t actually say which job he had come to do as she may have taken it the wrong way!

We also chatted this morning about a new helium powered balloon which can take you to the edge of space, so we thought we’d better take a test ride. Listen below to find out what happened and see you in the morning!

S x

Wednesday 24th August

Morning, so we had a right old giggle on text in the blank today asking for the words you wanted to add to the Collins Dictionary as they are getting rid of obscelete words such as ‘quagswagging’ which means rocking to and fro – Stuart wants to add ‘juching’ although we don’t know how you spell it, you know when spruce something up. I’d like to add ‘huggle’ when you combine a hug and cuddle! After seeing a brilliant #tag on Twitter which read ‘dear young self’ we got talking about the things you’d say to your younger self. I would definitely advise myself against store cards and to start doing sit ups at 13yrs old to get the much desired flat tummy I’ve spent years trying for! You were hilarious as ever with your suggestions with Tia in  Kingsthorpe saying 2stop being a gannet your won't be a size 6 forever” and PJ would say “Put the pie down and step away from the fridge chunky boy!”

Remember the Baz Luhrmann tune – Sunscreen? Well we thought we’d make a Heart Breakfast version, which you can hear it here! We also had a real treat as Madie, Kitty, Poppy, Katie, Charlotte and Olly from Yr 5 of Wooton Lower and Church End Lower came to see us on the show and we had some breakfast afterwards. Stu got to try choc shreddies for the first time!

I’m off to see One Day this afternoon, and you can hear about it with our catch up with Showbiz Editor Charlie on Friday’s show.

See you in the morning from 6am

Natalie x

 

Tuesday 23rd August (Part 2)

Today we asked what are the things that women do that scare men?  My mate was the only male at a hen night recently and boy was he scared especially when the conversation turned to men’s bottoms!  Jon from Dunstable called us up to say women’s handbags fill him with fear, the size of them and the scary array of stuff that’s in them, including lethal weapons like nail files.  He said all a women needs are keys and a credit card….just not his!  One thing that’s always scared and  fascinated mankind is why do women go to the toilet in groups?   Well this morning we exclusively revealed what actually goes on  and you are in for a bit of a shock!  Listen below to find out and we’ll see you in the morning! Stu x

 

Tuesday 23rd August (Part 1)

A snippet of Amy Winehouse and Tony Bennett's forthcoming duet has appeared online. It was recorded before she sadly passed away earlier this year. The 46-second clip is taken from the pair's collaboration called 'Body and Soul', which will feature on Bennett's upcoming album Duets II. Here's the clip if you missed it on the show!

 

Monday 22nd August

Morning – hope you had a good weekend, we were finding out your 3 word weekend’s today, and you were extremely helpful giving me some advice on my slightly dressed Bridemaid dress panic – as I’ve got one more duty this weekend so got the dress out the wardrobe and I’ve some of the ruffles a bit creased. I’ll be getting it in the bathroom with a sporadic burst of a hairdryer – thanks to your tips!

We found out Simon Cowell wants to be cryogenically frozen so he can appear on X-Factor 4020… and that Katy Perry has been secretly eating chicken behind her veggie husband Russell’s back… I imagined a scene from Gremlins, you know when they eat after midnight! Also we found out that it’s National Tooth Fairy day – and where speculating on how much she pays out these days. My nephew claimed to have got £8 for a tooth, I hope he was exaggerating, otherwise he may well start pulling more teeth out… Below is what we thought....We’ll be back with you in the morning talking scary women! Have a good day, enjoy the sunshine. Natalie x

 

Friday 19th August

If you woke up this morning and tuned in and thought who is this Stuart and Mattalie, thanks to Matt Jarvis who started the show for us whilst myself and Natalie were both stuck on the M1 following its closure this morning!  It was very frustrating but the police and highways agency were amazing and we made it in the end, albeit 3 hours late!  Loads of funny stories from you about when you have been stuck including Amanda who was stuck in a toilet for 6 hours after the lock broke and Tara from Northampton who had her finger stuck in a pipe and ended up looking a bit like ET’s finger!

We also heard from the Cheryl Cole newsdesk after reports that she may be appearing in a remake of Dirty Dancing! Have a fab weekend and in the meantime listen to THIS!  

 

Thursday 18th August

It’s A Level results day so we wanted to find out what you could pass an A Level in today! I must admit, I hated A Level results day – I was stood outside school, with my Mum being all cocky – in my heart I was terrified and sure enough, I opened the envelope and hadn’t got the grades I needed. The next few hours were spent in the careers room at school on the phone to the University I’d applied for, who put me on a different course – so off I went to the pub with my pals. But it was a difficult day for sure, and I hope if you’ve had teens going through getting their A Level results today, it’s been an OK day, possibly cause for celebration! We’re not at school anymore – and we’re employed so I know my parents are relieved now! We wanted to know though, what A Level you would pass today. Mine has to be Bridesmaid Etiquette, with my seventh appearance happening August bank holiday’s. I could execute the perfect Hen do now with the three I’ve organised this year, I’m good with make-up on the day and tips on what to buy.. and as far as juzzing the dress on the day, well the last Bride shooed me away as I was apparently doing ‘too much’.

Stu would pass an A Level in tact and diplomacy.. he rarely loses his temper and always, always can diffuse a tough situation – our official Heart Breakfast peacekeeper. We put him through his paces on the show and he did well!

 Abi in Rushden chattered away to us about how she would pass an A Level in ‘talking’. Amanda in Flitwick impressed us with her boyband knowledge – as she said she could pass an exam about Blue. Sara said hers would be ‘Dancing on the tables’ one of her party tricks, although whilst at Uni at St Andrews she injured herself whilst doing said dancing and ended up on crutches. We checked she wasn’t trying to impress Prince Wills, but apparently he wasn’t there that day!

Did you know that the Brangelina Xpress passed through MK yesterday – if not, you can hear all about HERE . Don’t forget to join our facebook page www.facebook.com/hearthomecounties as you can get in touch with us and make sure you tell your friends to LIKE us if they’ve not already as there’s always LOADS going on here. On the show tomorrow we want to hear about your inappropriate crushes. I will be reliving the most embarrassing one I had, which I will tell you now involved me kissing a car!! See you tmw from 6am. Natalie x 

Wednesday 17th August

This morning it was Heart Breakfast with Mr Bad Impressionist and Miss Perfectionist as we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Mr Men characters by creating a whole new army of up to date characters.  How about a Mr Social Networker who goes around with a big finger poking people or a Mr Health and Safety with his hard hat and his hi viz vest.   You came up with some brilliant ones how about Mrs OCD or Mr Snorer who we found out is actually married to miss Perfect.  Miss Perfect called us up to say their story involved her getting so frustrated with his snoring she resorted to placing a pillow around her ears!   One of the most bizarre characters came  from Chris in Luton who wanted to be Mr Pool Addict whom he described as having a large red face like a ball and a cue for a body.  We did wonder how exciting a story would be involving a Mr Pool Addict but Chris wasn’t having any of it check THIS out! See you in the morning. Stu x

 

Tuesday August 16th

Today on the show we were compiling a list of nightmare passengers, as on my flight home the BF had ‘The Kiddie Kicker’ sat behind him kicking his seat, which slightly ruined the fact we had front row seats with extra leg room!

Stu told you about ‘The Dribbler’  you know the person who falls asleep, dribbles and then their head falls to your shoulder for support – well that WAS STUART!! I confessed to painting my nails on a the plane on the way out – which is a bit stinky although I thought I was being clever by putting the lid back on after each nail. I’ve done a similar thing in the studio and Stu compared it to feeling like a lab rat, so apologies if you were on a flight out to Split end of July and got a whiff of nail polish! So we compiled a list of nightmare passengers:

Melly told us about ‘Nightmare Mum’ who sits in the  front holding onto the handle on the ceiling if you go over ten miles an hour and taking a massive gasp of air if you have to break for any reason whatsoever!!! Also feeling the need to suck barley sugars when we have only left the house and had brekkie five minutes previous!!

Emma told us her nightmare passengers are ‘Learner drivers’ who think they know everything about driving and so back seat drive

Lesley in Bedford said – flight home from Australia. ‘The Snorer’ -  Sleeping man snoring so LOUD he was making the whole row of seats SHAKE!

Mary told us about ‘The Heavy Petters’ -  In the old days when i used to get the bus, there was a couple whe used to practically have morning sex on the bus everyday. Very difficult keeping my breakfast down. Get a room! Mary x

Mark in Olney said ‘The Jeremy Kyle couple’ - on a flight last year and the couple in front started a full on fight. Anyway they were smaller than me so i was able to lean over and say something as the poor excuse for an air steward was too scared to get involved!

Shane in MK said ‘ The larger louts’ on the plane were trying to sleep they are draining the mini bar and singing blokey songs. Shane Mk

Bet there’s more, so keep an eye out over the summer period and do let us know – you can always add comment to our facebook page www.facebook.com/hearthomecounties

We’ll be back tomorrow finding out which Mr Men / Little Miss best describes you.

See you in the moring from 6am

Natalie x

 

 

Monday August 15th
Hope you had a good weekend! We both were at very different barbques this weekend - Natalie hosted her own with a delicious selection of food and had one guest actually tweeted that her research of the chocolate brownie proved that the 4th one was as good as the 1st. She did have one guest actually complain about the toilet seat saying it actually moved too quickly, can you believe that? Certainly a guest with tough standards. Mind you, I wish I had been there as I ended up at the equivalent of the Jeremy Kyle BBQ! It was all going well till the evening ended up in a near punch up when two women went for each other and the man next to me commented on the fact that it had been much better last year because they had karaoke…lol!

Loads of you are back from your summer holidays already but have experienced some difficult and annoying passengers on flights, so we thought tomorrow we would compile out Heart Breakfast's list of annoying passengers! If you have a great story you can get in touch here . 

See you in the morning

S x

Friday 12th August

So we wanted to prove that if you are called Judy you’re happy – as a survey says if you’re called Judy or Joshua you are one of the happiest in Britain. We had some very Jolly Judy’s on the phone, proving our point – except one – Judy in Milton Keynes who hung up on Stuart. Still we think it’s almost accurate. Other happy names include

Stephanie, Linda, Pam and Pat who are among the most cheery, and that the same is the case with men named Matthew, Jason, Terry and Barry.

BUT apparently the grumpy people are Lynne and Ben along with Pauline which is generally thought of as miserable because of EastEnders character Pauline Fowler, played by the late Wendy Richards. Have a think, let us know whether you can defy our theory!

Also on the show our last Alton Towers winner – was Chris in Dunstable heading off for a family weekend, with fasttrack tickets to the top 5 rides. And we from that awful Rebecca Black singing live, it seems she isnt as great without autotune but believe me the song is as dreadful however you hear it!

Right it’s the weekend, I’ve gotta get home to get my bbq prep ready, the BF is busy marinating the meat (we’re now not having monkfish, he told me that was insane) instead it’s yoghurt marinated chicken and fancy south African beef sausages which are wound round and round – mmm. Just hope we have enough food as it looks like a load of people are now coming! Paper plates all round to save on the washing up and more sun dances – we don’t want rain!

We’re back Monday finding out what you’ve been upto this weekend.

Have a good one and see you then

Natalie x

 

 

Thursday 11th August

Wednesday 10th August

If you heard the show yesterday, you’ll know that Stuart and Josh were telling my bbq menu sounds over the top. You can scroll down to see what was on the menu. Well yesterday I took a visit to the Fleetville Vintage Emporium in St Albans, where I found two rather barginous ice buckets, that just made my bbq proper posh. Check out the photo!! So -  can you train a man? Well after a 10 day holiday with mine, where we aired our dirty laundry and quite honestly told one another what we thought about each other… I’ve realised NO, BUT it seems you can use tricks to get your own way.  Glayn has used repetition of things he wants for the last 17 years with his fair lady, Georgina goes for Bribes, Emma suggested to get your kids to ask your other stuff… or as Victoria said the old ‘you know you love me… well will you do me a favour’.  These were your tips on how to train your partner and we also had Winkie Spiers (http://winkiespiers.com )  a dog behaviourist answer some of your dilemma’s of things you were wanting to stop your partners doing, such as Pete who is really messy with his food and Nelly who gives you the cold shoulder if you leave her alone for too long… Winkie answers proved the similarities between men and man’s best friend… what does that say I ask you!!

 We also had Michelle win tickets to Alton Towers and we’ll have another family weekend pass for you tomorrow – and more celebs. Today we heard from Andy Serkis – who was Gollum, yes my precious… as he’s in the next Planet of the Apes movie and also Jim Sturgess was on the show – if you’ve not read One Day, by David Nicholls get that book on your holiday reading before you see the film..We’ll be back tomorrow from 6am

Have a good day

Natalie

 

Tuesday 9th August

We had a ‘BBQ Off’ this morning!  Natalie is having a Bar-b-cue at the weekend and it turns out that she is serving quite a feast.  On the menu she has’ thai green curried monkfish kebabs’ and a ‘poppy seed and cucumber salad’.  But what is a bbq without a slightly burnt sausage or a burger I thought this was unacceptable so we asked you is Natalie’s bbq too over the top?  Loads of you really liked her idea and we even heard from Pam in New Bradwell who once served reindeer sausages at her bbq…very sophistimacated!

Like me some of you said you thought you needed a juicy steak or a burger to make a bbq complete,in fact if the Monkfish didn’t put you off then the cost might!  Nick got in touch and suggested that maybe Natalie wanted to add some thai green curry sauce to the fishpond so she could marinade the coy carp just in case she runs out of Monkfish lol!

More chances to win a fantastic family experience at the Alton Towers resort on tomorrow mornings show and Natalie will be taking to the Rollercoaster and you can

guess our famous favourite celebrity as she describes them whilst on the ride!  Standby for lots of screaming!

See you in the morning

Stu x

Monday 8th August

So we’re back from our hols, Stu has been glamping in Southern France, and ended up pitching his tent next to Ray Quinn ( X-Factor fame) who he’d managed to embarrass himself in front off, cycling round the campite after some French vino… screaming weeeeeeeee like a 5 yr old! Luckily Ray found it all rather amusing! I’ve been on a boat sailing down the Dalmation Coast of Croatia. What a wonderful time, although I got a bit seasick one day and ended up with burnt lips and managed to feed the fish after not using the toilet correctly, whilst anchored in a little bay, meaning my toilet business was emptied into the sea, just as the BF was about to jump in the water – oops!

You told us the funny stuff that happened to you on your hols as well including Sam in Hatfield who’s daughter ate an ice lolly too quick whilst on hols and ended up with it stuck to her lips –ouch! Hayley told us about a trip to Gran Canaria – “We arrived at midnight and were looked out of our room on the balcony so my BF climbed over into the next balcony and called into the room when a hairy man in his underpants came running out! He didn't speak English and I thought my BF was going to get beaten up! In the end we managed to get thru what had happened and he let my BF thru while I waited for him to return with security who had a key! Oops! Anne in Bedford told us “ I went on a gig & festival trip to Austria & Hungary with a temporary passport so wasn't allowed into Hungary by scary border guards with guns! Had to return to my friends house near Vienna & everyone else went to Budapest without me.:(Worse still,they wound up sightseeing with one of the bands we were followin the next morn....AND they left with my suncream in the car so I got badly burnt & had 2 travel the 00s miles home by car on a sore bum! The story became a bit of a legend among the bands & lots of the fans,even people who didn't know it was me,or knew me at all! Doh!. Hayiley said ‘Not funny at the time but now we look back, last year the boyfriend "decided" to take his brand new smart phone swimming in Zante.... needless to say, its never worked since!!’ This reminds me of a time I was on the back of a jet ski with my Dad on holiday once and he dropped me off near the shore and it was much deeper than I thought, so I went straight under the water. When he returned back, I was waving at him to let him know it was deep, as he was wearing a money belt. Unfortunately he just waved back and stepped off the jet ski, went straight under, meaning he had to spend the evening hair drying all his cash that had got soaked!!

One of our favourites was Emma who told us “ I went to Cyprus and my man came 3RD in a Mr Boombastic competition! Was a very proud moment when he got presented with his medalion while wearing women’s make up, a wig and just sung, like a virgin!”

The things you think you can get away with on holiday.. as long as it stays on holiday and doesn’t end up on Facebook!!

In the morning we’ll be giving you the chance to win another family pass to the Alton Towers Resort – what fun, and we’re talking fancy schmancy bbq’s – don’t miss it join us from 6am

Natalie xx

 

 

 

 Friday 5th August

Well that’s it from me covering for Stuart and Natalie. I’ve had fun the past two weeks getting you up in the morning!

Today we were celebrating Friday with you 3 word weekends. Seems many people are on Hen Nights tomorrow night – all of which seem to be as far away from here as possible to hide the going ons!

Thank you to Katie Price for bringing out a novel. It has given us the chance this week to serialise it and realise it was a very funny book… for other reasons!

Next week, Stuart and Natalie are back helping you out with the summer holiday’s with a great Alton Towers Resort prize. Make sure you tune in on Monday morning!

 I’m back on drivetime next week, so hope you can join me there at 4pm? Have a great weekend! J

 Matt

 

Thursday 4th August

  Matt Jarvis here!

 So that was the penultimate show then for Stuart and Natalie, they’re back on Monday with chances for you to take the family to Alton Towers!

 Today we were talking about what home comforts you have to take with you on holiday. I like taking my Assam teabags as they do not have those anywhere else in the world is seems! Producer Josh thought we were all a big mad taking things like that with us. But we found the good people of Herts, Beds, Bucks and Northants like to take a whole lot more! From mugs, pillows, marmite to one guy who likes to bring his toaster!

 We decided with this information, to call the Spanish hotel I am staying at in a few months time to see if they have any of the above. The answer was a resounding no… not even Jafffa Cakes!

 On tomorrow’s show, Showbiz Charlie will be on talking about ‘The Saturday’s’ and their relationships.

 Have a great day, and looking forward to speaking with you on Friday!

 Mat X

Tuesday 4th August

Matt Jarvis here in for Stuart and Natalie.

On the show this morning we gave away more tickets to Thriller Live in London! We have more pairs tomorrow morning if you fancy going to see one of the best shows in the country, tune in at 7:30 to win!

 This morning, it was revealed that Oliver and Olivia are the top two baby names for the 2nd year running. So in a bid to change the list for next year, we collated some ‘Weird and Wonderful’ names from you this morning. After getting names like ‘Fawn’, ‘Neo’, ‘Annette Skuce’, ‘Pinky’ and ‘Theresa Green’, we decided to pitch these amazing names to mum to be, Gerry. She wasn’t overly impressed and decided to just go back to the baby book!

 As today is another hot day, more dilemmas about how we are going to sleep later on will be taking place. On the Duvet, under the duvet?! Either way, the whole of Herts, Beds, Bucks and Northants are having one leg in, one leg out during the night creating the record for the biggest sleeping version of the Hokey Cokey ever prodced!

 Sleep well tonight and I will speak with you in the morning!

Matt  x

 

Monday 1st August

So another week of Stuart and Natalie being on holiday, so I am covering the show this week!

Today we gave away our first of 15 tickets to see Thriller Live in London! This is such an amazing show, and if you want some fun in the big smoke, and of course if you’re a Michael Jackson fan… make sure you’re tuning in at 7:30 tomorrow!

This morning we were chatting about the 2nd Royal Wedding of the year. It was slightly different to the 1st one with Wills and Kate. Especially when it came to the best men. There was Harry – a fine member of the Royal Family. And then there was Mike Tindall’s – A rugby player with a black eye and a bent nose! Apparently they also drank all night and were still wearing the same clothes the next day. No, not the Queen, the rugby guys! Wish I was invited!

Tomorrow, we are talking baby names. A list has been revealed of the most popular ones and, quite frankly, they’re a little boring! So how about we find out some more fun ones? If you have any, let us know on our Facebook page which you can like via the Heart Website.

Speak with you tomorrow,

 Matt x

Friday 29th July

Well that’s the end of Heart Breakfast for this week! We’ve finally made it to the weekend!

This morning on the show, we had a world exclusive from Showbiz Charlie who caught up with JLS. The guys told her that they are planning on bringing out their first range of aftershave and perfume. So very soon at a store near you, you can end up smelling like JLS!

Three word weekend was interesting today. We had everything from a romantic dinner, a new puppy, and a BBQ dessert cake! Not sure how that would actually work, but we decided to be open minded and go with it…

We found out this morning that Tom Jones will NOT be in Newport Pagnell tonight. Apparently it’s just his tribute act, so if you’re planning on going to see him, you won’t need to bring your best knickers.

We’re back on Monday with some very exciting prize news and make sure you let us know what you've been upto. Have a great weekend!

 Mattx

 

Thursday 28th July

Hello you!

Enjoyed doing the show for Stuart and Natalie this morning.

I had Paul Daniels and Debbie Magee on the show this morning talking about their magic show which will be in Stevenage this November. We found out that Paul knows Debbie better than she knows him, which nearly caused a divorce on the show. They decided in the end that Debbie would buy Paul breakfast and all would be forgiven!

Also on the show this morning we were talking about those foreign phrases that we know, but don’t know why. “I have 5 rabbits” was one Spanish phrase. Another was “I want to swap a cow for a fiddle stick” in Norwegian. Sure that would go down well on a summer holiday there!

Tomorrow, I have Showbiz Charlie on the show with an exclusive piece of news about JLS! Clue for you, they will be coming to a place near you soon (kind of)! Tune in to find out tomorrow morning.

Also a great family Peppa Pig prize to giveaway to Woburn Safari Park!

It’s all on Heart Breakfast… and it will be Friday!!

See you then,

 

Wednesday 27th July

Stuart and Natalie are off for two weeks, so I am looking after the show for them while they’re away.

Today marks one year to go until the Olympics, and we celebrated by having Tom Daley on the show giving us the countdown which he recorded for the show. As there were many numbers he did for us, we realised we could move them around and have him telling us the time all morning. Thanks Tom!

Georgie the Giraffe is still out and about around the area. If you spot him, text us the keyword on the side of him and you could be winning an exclusive VIP experience at Woburn Safari Park! Best of luck!!

 We found out on the show this morning that many people listening to the show have won something worthy of the Olympics. Aside from myself and Producer Josh partaking in a conker contest and dance competition respectively, we had everything from being able to put socks on without using hands to female darts champions from Northamptonshire!

 Tomorrow - as it’s now the summer hols - we want to know the foreign phrases you know. I know one in German (which will not get me very far) and Producer Josh knows one in Zambian! What phrase do you know? Let us know tomorrow!

Until then, speak to you tomorrow morning. I am now off to spend the day eating a 5-pack of Kit-Kat Chunkies!

Matt

x 

Monday 25th July

So, Stuart and Natalie are now on holiday for the next two weeks, so I am looking after the show.

If you can’t get enough of the guys, you can see pictures of them both attending the Race for Life events over the weekend (Stevenage and Bedford) where Stuart donned a pink wig and Natalie decided to run the last part while holding the hands of someone eager to get to the finish line. Was a great weekend of weather for the two towns! Make sure you check out our photo gallery on the front page of the site!

On the show this morning, Showbiz Charlie was with me talking about going to Buckingham Palace where we can now see Kate’s wedding dress in its full glory. She also reviewed the movie ‘Horrible Bosses’ which stars Jennifer Anniston as an ‘interesting’ dentist, who constantly harasses a work colleague. We found that she loves doing a comedy film and unluckily for most men, she is nothing like her character and would never think about coming on to a man at work! That was my only disappointment of the morning as if that happened to me I would never call HR!

On the streets of Herts, Beds, Bucks and Northants today, make sure you look out for a rather large Giraffe called Georgie! If you spot him on the loose from Woburn Safari Park, text in the keyword written on him, and you could be winning a top VIP Experience at Woburn Safari Park! Great prize for the Summer Holiday’s!

Back with you on heart Breakfast tomorrow morning!
Matt
x

Friday 22nd July

That’s it we are officially starting our summer holidays!  Natalie is all packed and taking a mobile casualty unit with her, a slight exaggeration maybe, but she has every pill and potion under the sun packed lets hope she remembers her toothbrush!   I meanwhile am heading off on a bit of a road trip around France and have decided to visit every town with a connection to alcohol, so far we have Cognac, St Emillion and ofcourse Bordeaux!  Producer Josh and Natalie both tried to suggest alternative destinations with a possible food theme but I’m not sure if I am really up to visiting Turkey but there again I could go Hungary!  Whatever you are upto over the next couple of weeks have a great time and make sure you check out Matt Jarvis who is in the breakfast hotseat from Monday and his co-host will be Georgie the Giraffe, sounds interesting he is here Monday from 6!

We are back Monday 8 August

See you soon.

Stu and Nat

xx

Thursday 21st July

Morning, so we’ve got one day left before our holidays, you’ve got one more day till the kids break up and then 6 weeks of madness! In light of the foam hacking incident earlier in the week I thought it would be funny to play a practical joke on Stu and did the classic cling film on the loo trick – and almost caught him out. I got a bit carried away with more of the sticky stuff on his mic and pen! Ha!

 You were amazing with your tales – I’ve definitely taken some tips from these which were some of my favourites: Susan said ‘I made a lemon jam and coconut sponge cake out of a car sponge it looked and smelt like real Mccoy, I gave it to my partner as a treat. I phoned him to find out if he enjoyed it he didn’t speak to me for a week  - didn’t know he was going to put the whole piece in his mouth he said he nearly choked.

Marie said when my sister worked at ncr girl was leaving and brought in these huge choc eclairs that people ate just before end of day.She really upset the girl that was pregnant as she wouldnt let ger have one. just as well she used ex lax in the choc covering everybody was really ill all weekend! And Mary said when i was alot younger my sister kept eating all the bourbon biscuits. To stop her i took the filling out and put dirt in instead. She never ate them again after that. Mary x  Pitbull went as far s bricking up his friend’s front and back door as a 40th b’day surprise!!

 Don’t think I’ll go that far with Stu, he’ll probably never speak to me again, and I’m not that good with cement! We’re off on our hols on Mon. I’ve got my Croatian sailing holiday with the BF and his folks. Let’s hope there’s no walking of the plank and my sea legs hold up and as we’re well into festival season I’m heading home to a Festival  for some family fun along with Aloe Blacc and Jessie J to name a few. Hopefully I’ll bring the good weather of Croatia back with me.

Tomorrow don’t miss our last chance to win a VIP experience at Woburn Safari Park.

Have a good day

Natalie

Wednesday July 20th
This morning we decided to create the ultimate pet holiday following the revelation that my dog Nellie (pic above!) is off to Walsall this year! Apparently everyone reckoned I could do better for her and we had so many great suggestions including sending her to Barking and the Isle of Dogs!!

But seriously we had a really great idea from The Riverside Hotel in Evesham which boasts normal rooms, along with three special dog suites - with ensuite gardens - where even the most pampered of pooches will be happy. Head chef Rico Pecho has devised a special menu… Dogs can enjoy starters including soup, chicken-liver parfait, crepes or home-made fishcakes, main meals such as rib-eye steak, salmon wellington or chicken supreme, all rounded off with carrot cake, rice pudding or chocolate biscuits. Aside from the fine dining, other activities on offer include pet portrait sessions and swims in a local spa pool.

This sounds amazing but my only worry is my Diva dog Nellie will return from this holiday an even bigger Diva! 

See you in the morning

S x

Tuesday July 19th
So today we got you to share with us your tips on a long lasting relationship as it’s been 3 months now of me and my Boyfriend co-habiting. We’re still talking, often bickering but like you all said that’s all part the fun of it. There were some priceless gems of advice such as Al who said ‘ Keep cooking good food’, he’s such a good cook I don’t do it enough but it should be shared shouldn’t it!?! Claire in London Colney said ‘ At our wedding my dad told hubby to remember 3 little words 'yes my dear'! Barbara in Luton said after 29 years my husband and I never go to bed on an argument. Leanne shared her secret , she said ‘Buy a house with a big garden, get a very large shed and put in lighting, kettle, a bed and lots of tools! We have been married 13yrs and I only see him one night a week!’. This text came in anonymously which made us belly laugh it said ‘ The secret to a long relationship is to remember a man wears the trousers in the house but a women tell him which ones to wear.’

We also found a way to sex up the housework to get the men more interested as we’ve found there’s new video with lingerie clad women doing household chores, so I had a go at sexing up cleaning the oven, what do you think click here .

We’ll be back in the morning with another VIP experience for you to win at Woburn Safari Park.
See you at 6am
Natalie x

Monday July 18th
What’s your first childhood memory? A recent survey came out with a trip to the dentist at the top but we reckoned there were loads more fun things we could add this morning? How about making mud pies and going on the swings and slides for the first time! More strangely how about Natalie being left at the school gates, or falling off a wall because you fancied a guy and wanted him to sign your cast! 

We are playing a really fun game this week called Mystery Mammals where you can win a VIP trip to Woburn Safari Park and get up close and personal with the animals there just like Natalie did last week. I am very jealous as I love animals apart from sea lions and rats which I am both a bit terrified of, bizarre I know, I put it down to terrifying childhood experiences! Have a lovely day and see you in the morning!

Stu x

Friday 15th July
Yesterday was a first for me, my first Ski lesson @ Snozone in MK! I must admit, I was pretty scared but got the hang of it pretty quick. Instructor Olly was very patient and I only managed to fall on my bum getting off the travelator. The funniest was the 8 year old girl who was also having a lesson, who remarked to her instructor ‘ I didn’t realise Adults had lessons too’ – bless her, it made me wonder why I’ve taken SO long to get on the slopes.. but now I’ve done it once, I’m going back for sure. Might even video it next time for your amusement!

Stuart was having fun with a megaphone on the show today - we’ve given it to him, as he’s opening the village fete in Great Offley tomorrow and wanted tips on what to do. At least he’ll look official with that in hand, although he’ll need to put it down for the tug of war!

I had a nightmare yesterday as I was downloading facebook onto my blackberry as it had disappeared and then my phone crashed! The irony being now I can only communicate with people via facebook till I get it fixed. But I was doing that thing where I was taking my phone apart and blowing on it. Which surprise surprise didn’t help! Why do we do that – do you?

I’ve got to put my new TV together later, as the Boyfriend is busy at work and the man is coming to fix it – surely I can’t mess that up but me and technology don’t get on! Fingers crossed eh! I’ll be in St Albans at the Race for Life on Sunday, so see you there if you’re taking part or if you’re doing the Midnight Moo in MK on Saturday night, have an udderly fab time!

See you Monday
Love Natalie x

Thursday 14th July
How prepared are you for your Summer Holiday? It seems that Natalie’s Bikini Beauty Boot camp is going well, I kid you not this lady is on a mission and with 4 Bikini’s packed and a boatful of her boyfriend’s family floating around the Mediterranean, who can blame her! I meanwhile, as usual, am last minute! A week Friday is our last show before our summer break and I still have no idea where I am going. It seems that loads of you are super organised too we heard everything today from placing your tickets and passport in your handbag a month before you depart right up to packing everything in tiny small bottles so that you can fit in more pairs of shoes, 14 to be precise!  14 pairs of shoes for a week’s holiday, I think Becky takes the prize today and we suggested she add a shoe rack to her list of holiday essentials. We still have a week to go but if you are off on your Summer Hols in the next few days have an amazing time and don’t forget to send us a postcard via facebook

See you in the morning
S x

Wednesday 13th July
On the show today we wanted to know when you have bought cheap and fibbed after Stuart confessed to spending a fiver on a suede jacket, he’d seen Brad Pitt wearing and wanted to recreate the look. He wore the jacket to a movie premier and whilst on the red carpet was asked who his jacket was by, to which he answered D&G! Ha! I’m far too honest and whenever I have am wearing a bargain, I can’t help but shout about it. So we wanted to know if you were any good at fibbing and Juli told us she bought a £2.50 dress that her friend loved and offered her £100 for, Juli never let on! More of our favourites were from Anne in Bedford who said "I regularly shop in charity shops,dress agencies,second hand markets & I have both told the truth as well as told fibs about stuff when people have asked. I have also bought gifts 2nd hand like your other listener." she added "On the flip side to what Stuart did I've actually managed to buy real designer gear in charity shops, I got NEW Manolo Blahnik boots!" Fiona in Sandy said “I got my wedding dress from a charity shop I paid £100 for it and it was worth £1500 new, it fitted like it was made just for me!”
We then wanted to find out whether you would still shop in charity shops, even if you won the Euro Millions and to be honest most of you said you would, although Mary told us she’d be too busy jet setting! We loved Abi’s comment that she’d take all her old stuff to charity shops if she won and just buy new!

We’re back tomorrow finding out what lengths you go to before you go on holiday. Stuart still has no idea where he’s going and I’ve started getting clothes ready and trying to get my bikini body Eek!

See you in the morning,
Have a good day
Natalie x


Tuesday 12th July
Following yesterdays revelation about the name of the Beckham’s new daughter today we realised we both had lucky escapes with unusual names!  If Natalie had been a boy she would have been called Napoleon or as she suggested Nappy for short.  I could have been called Tudor which is actually quite cool now I think but at the time I felt I may have to wear a ruff around my neck to suit the name! So we asked you what were you going to be called, did you have a close shave with an unusual name?   Kylie, originally from Australia now living in Shortstown, said she wanted to call her son mate which if you’re an Ozzie would be hilarious…Gooday mate!!  She also revealed that her name Kylie was chosen as her mother couldn’t spell the name Leah.  Kylie actually means small boomerang which is very appropriate as far as Kylie is concerned as when it comes to her husband she keeps coming back!! Other favourites include a potential Rodney Stewart and a girl who could have ended up as Glen Campbell, the one and only Rhinestone Cowgirl!  

Natalie is off on a secret mission to Woburn Safari Park today so listen out all next week for the details of a new competition!

See you in the morning!
S x

Monday 11th July
Wow what a weekend, you were amazing at Stadium MK, despite the rain! Do check out all the amazing pictures we’ve got of you and also our interviews with Olly Murs and JLS, check me out on the stair master with the boys! It was a brilliant gig! My poptastic weekend got even better as I went to Wembley on Saturday for the last night of Take That’s tour. OMG… if you’ve been to see the show then you know what a spectacle it was. I’m so glad I avoided hearing anything about the gig, so if you didn’t go and are planning to fly to see them in Europe or buy the DVD, look away as I want to now talk about it! The mission impossible dancers, for The Flood…the Alice in Wonderland scene and that robot.. WOW! I’d seen pictures of it, but couldn’t believe the size and scale and when it stood up! We were open mouthed! All the boys were brilliant. How impressive in Jason and Howard’s dance moves. I was screaming my head off like a teenager and loved every last minute! Well done Take That! Make sure you join Stu and I in the morning, we’re talking unusual names, after we heard about Victoria Beckham’s baby girl is called Harper 7!! We want to know what you were almost called!

Have a good day
Natalie x

Friday 8th July

As I write this we are gearing ourselves up for tonight’s big gig at the Stadium MK with JLS and Olly Murs.  Looking out the window currently it is raining but fear not the forecast is set to improve this evening ready for 20,000 people to enjoy one of the biggest gigs of the Summer. We are lucky enough to be going on stage to introduce Olly Murs and can’t wait, in fact we might have to have a little Olly sing off!   Make sure you check out heart.co.uk as you can upload your pics to our website!  Plus on Monday we’ll have signed memorabilia to give away and exclusive online chats with all the stars from tonight’s show!  Don’t miss Mondays show for all the backstage gossip!  Whatever you are upto this weekend have a brilliant time.

See you on Monday!

Stu x

Thursday 7th July

On the show today, we were finding out about inappropriate mum’s after mine told the BF he was gorgeous the other week! Did you read about the step mother who sent her future daughter in law a huge rant of an email about her behaviour? It was described as "staggering in its uncouthness and lack of grace". The recipient, Heidi was so shocked she sent it to her friends, it then went viral, attracting attention from around the world.

Here are some examples from the missive, followed by some expert opinions.

"When a guest in another's house, you do not lie in bed until late morning in households that rise early - you fall in line with house norms."

"No-one gets married in a castle unless they own it. It is brash, celebrity-style behaviour."

"You do not take additional helpings without being invited to by your host."

"When you are a guest in another's house, you do not declare what you will and will not eat - unless you are positively allergic to something."

You told us some of your tales. Sue said ‘I met my (now ex) husband while we were teaching life saving. We were competing in a competition & my parents came to watch. They knew i liked this guy so i introduced them after the comp. My mums initial statement was ' Oh ur so much bigger with ur clothes of!!!' i wanted the floor to open up & swallow me’   Alex from Northampton told us ‘ I went out for my 18th birthday which was nearly 2 years ago my mum decided she wanted to come, so we sat at this table, my mother went to the toilet, this lad come and was talking to me, my mum come back, and she starting flirting with him, he told her it was me he liked, and my mum pretend to cry, it was so embarrassing’   And Claire said My mother in law kept calling me my partners old name, and almost everything i wore she compared me with her. Our favourite was Fiona in Sandy who told us how her Mum and Aunt came to her hen do where there was a stripper, and sat in the corner giggling and when the guy went over to their table, Fiona’s mum tried to ‘hook his thingy’ with her walking stick! OMG!!

 We also gave you tickets to a screening of the final Harry Potter movie in Greenwich tonight, and we’ll have our showbiz editor Charlie Girling on the show in the morning, to tell us all the gossip from the red carpet! And tomorrow is the JLS / Olly Murs gig at Stadium MK, can’t believe how quick it’s come around. We’ve got an amazing money can’t buy treat for you, so make sure you’re listening to the show from 6am.

 Have a good day

Natalie x

Wednesday 6th July

Experts have revealed the 5 Fatal Facebook Faux Pars  Avoid these unless you want to be de-friended.

1. The gushing couple.
Not content with being in a happy and stable relationship, this couple feel the need to rub our noses in it on a daily basis by posting gag making status updates like: “I woke up next to the most beautiful woman in the world this morning. My wife. I am the luckiest man alive.”

2. The bitter venter
“That’s it, I’m giving up on women, they’re all crazy.”
“All men are liars. Prove me wrong.”
Okay so it sounds like they’re not having much luck on the dating and relationships front at the moment, but venting about it on Facebook isn’t going to help their cause much.

3. Baby bore
Endless photos of baby’s first everything. Yawn. And crowing posts about how motherhood is the best job in the world without a thought for any friends who may have not have met the right person yet, are having trouble conceiving or who just aren’t into babies. Thanks but no thanks.

4. Bridezilla
“3 sleeps until the big day.” “Spa day for me and the bridesmaids – woo hooo!” “Excited about dress fitting tonight!!” “Honeymoon in the Carribean or Greece? Any advice?”
Hey, is someone getting married then?

5. The bragger
“Cocktails on the beach tonight with my hot new Brazillian boyfriend. I knew this gap year was a good idea!” Thanks very much.

It just serves to highlight everything that’s wrong with our own lives.

We’ve also added The Attention Seeker – which was me this week, putting up a picture of my bruised face, post hen do! The Winger who is always moaning about their job, friends annoying them!! The Picture Bully who always posts up unflattering pictures and tags up in them!! Why! Rebecca told us about  The Tease who always puts cryptic messages up which noone understands. Nicky couldn’t stand The Baby Bore – people who tell the world when their little person has been potty trained. Then Samantha went mad about The Seriel Soaper who has to comment on Eastenders, every scene, despite most of us watching it at the same time and then there was Natasha and The Job Seeker – the person who calls in sick and then posts up pictures of them partying online. Natasha had to sack someone after this!

So if you need to cull some friends on FB – here’s some tips to help you out!

Be careful out there in cyberspace!

Natalie x

Tuesday 5th July

Natalie’s sister really enjoyed Take That but 10 years ago she was way too cool!  I caught myself actually proudly talking everybody through the bargains I found at the supermarket the other day, not very cool!  This morning you told us about the things you were too cool for but now you’re not?  Jen in Milton Keynes  came on the show and celebrated YMCA by the Village People.  She wouldn’t sing it unfortunately as her husband was looking very strangely at her, obviously not a Village People fan.  Fiona in Bletchley discovered the gym after she couldn’t bend down to tie up her show laces and Andy couldn’t believe he was actually wearing his Dads clothes which he said he could never imagine doing when he was younger. Natalie’s fascination with Tuppawear is a good example but I think you really have to worry when you actually enjoy stacking it all together smallest inside largest.Tomorrow it’s all about the facebook faux pas have a look at facebook.com/hearthomecounties and get involved we’d love to hear from you!

See you in the morning

Stu x

Monday 4th July

What an eventful show we had today, with Sky being the new sponsors of Heart Breakfast, we gave Magali in Dunstable a free Sky package for a year! Andy won a family pass to go to an exclusive screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, ahead of its release date on July 15th. Then later Alison in Milton Keynes won tickets for her and her best friend Donna to go and see JLS and Olly Murs this Friday at Stadium MK. We’ve got more tickets to give away all week, so keep listening! We wanted to hear all about your weekend’s – Stuart went camping in Norfolk and came back all relaxed. I went to my final Hen do, and managed to take a nose dive whilst we were out at an 80’s themed night, which has left me with a bruised nose and forehead. Stuart took great pleasure in describing this on air and you were very helpful with your tips to cover it up – seeing as I do need to be on stage presenting the JLS and Olly Murs gig!

Other weekend casualties included Lou who had pretty much lost her voice, screaming at Take That this weekend, we also spoke to Karen who won Take That tickets on Heart Breakfast get in touch to tell us she managed to wangle VIP!  Nice work!

We’ll be back tomorrow with more for you to win and finding out what you used to think you were too cool for, that now you’re not.
See you in the morning – and be sure to feel sorry for me, with my bruises!

Natalie x

 Friday 1st July

It’s Friday 1st July! Wow how did that happen? We’ve got Andy Murray in the semi-finals at Wimbledon today, and we had him on the show giving us some words of inspiration…! Hopefully his Mum doesn’t droll too much over Rafael, like she did with Feliciano Lopez, although it might put Rafa off his game, as he did beat Murray last time around at this stage in the grand slam. Anyway, fingers x. We were finding out your three word weekend, mine was Buy Brighton Pier, as it’s apparently up for sale and I’m heading there on Hen do #3! I thought I could buy a lottery ticket tonight and if I win, would buy the Pier. You were telling us about yours, lots of you going to see Take That and very excited about! We indulged you with a Take That time tunnel special that you had voted to at www.heart.co.uk and don’t forget you can still win tickets here. We also heard from Super Nanny Jo Frost about how to deal with Stuart’s tantrums in the studio and the fact that he insists on stripping naked each time I dress him! Stu told Jo how I’ve got a bad habit of throwing my food on the floor, which is why he won’t take me for dinner! Jo gave some great advice and you can hear the full interview on our facebook page – link to facebook.

We’ll be back on Monday with amazing prizes for you. Free Sky TV for a year, tickets to see JLS and Olly Murs at Stadium MK next Friday and we’ve also got tickets to an exclusive Harry Potter premiere as the next film is nearly out! So whilst I don’t want to wish the weekend away, what an amazing show we’ve got lined up for you eh!

Have a fab weekend – I’m off to Hen Do no 3.. imagine once all this bridesmaid duty is over, I won’t have anything to tell you J

See ya Monday

Natalie x

 

Wednesday 29th June

A survey said that women like a man who’s a bit of a softy, contrary to popular belief… but I’m not convinced. My previous boyfriend was a softie and to be honest it wasn’t attractive. My man now – I’d say is ‘macho metro’.. so he’s tough, strong and would rescue me yet cooks and cleans. A good mix. A lot of you agreed that a mix was best, a man who can protect you but is also sensitive although there was a lot of Macho men lovers. Heidi said the more macho the better, her man is big, bald and takes no nonsense. Lisa told us her bloke also is really macho, but terrified of lizards, luckily there aren’t many of them in St Albans where she lives. Stuart asked your opinion as to whether he’s macho or metro as the general discussion got him very confused and I’d told him he had macho tendencies, but Producer Josh thought differently.. you did too. The poll we did proved Stuart is 99% macho. Kev in MK said purely for knowing what metro was meant that Stuart isn’t macho!

 Mark Owen has been very metro, saying he’s going back to his wife Emma and two kids after each gig, now he’s realised he doesn’t have to stay away whilst on tour and is feeling much more connected with his family now – aaah bless him!  Jane is also feeling connected with the boys as she won a pair of tickets to see them at Wembley on Saturday as we opened the Take That ticket office on the show today and it’ll be open again at some point today, so keep listening.

 Stu and I will be back tomorrow – hopefully celebrating a Murray win at Wimbledon, despite him playing the man his Mum calls ‘Deliciano’!! Come on Muzza!!

Natalie

 

Tuesday 28th June

Just imagine what you could do with 117 million pounds?  Today we had great fun deciding how we would spend the money if we won the euromillions draw tonight.  It’s the sort of thing we all dream of and with that much money we could all afford to indulge in some of our more unusual dreams and fantasies! 

I have always fancied the idea of running a nightclub or as we nicknamed it today ‘Stufellows’!  Natalie would love her own leisure centre which would serve really great food which means people would have to use it all the time to work off the calories, a great moneymaking scheme!

Fiona in Sandy would buy a Mercedes F1 team so she could go to all the races and hang out with Michael Schumacher.  Marie reckoned with just £20 million she could hire Jose Mourinho on a four year contract to manage her life.  What a great idea he could manage the housework, the kids, the school run the list is endless. Finally there was Karen who was very excited about buying her own ranch which you may think doesn’t sound that exciting except that Karen wants lots of cowboys running it in chaps!   Happy dreaming Karen!

See you in the morning

S x

Monday 27th June

Morning, what a gorgeous day it is and how lovely was yesterday? I had my latest bridesmaid duty to perform – numero 6! It was a lot of fun, although we were camping as the wedding in a field where the wedding marquee was and our airbed broke, so we thought it would be a good idea to use one of the straw bails as a layer beneath our deflated mattress… wasn’t the best night’s sleep I’ve had. Not sure that’s glamping!! The wedding was my best friend who’s like a sister, so she got ready for the big day at our family home and there was a lot of excitement from my mother in particular,  who was making rather tactless comments about the ‘next big event’ we might have at the house!! As well as saying she couldn’t have desert incase she needed to diet for a big party that might happen in the next few years! Wink wink nudge nudge. As the weekend progressed and the comments continued, my BF and I begun to get immune, entertained nonetheless. At the wedding the Bride’s mum did her proud in the tactless stakes referring to the Bride as being an ‘ugly duckling, not very academic and having lots of boyfriends’ which as you can imagine was hilarious. Luckily the bride inherited her Mum’s lack of tact gene so wasn’t really fazed buy her Mum’s comments. Stu had to deal with his other’s half also being tactless over the weekend, telling someone at an event how they should improve their marketing activity and you told us about how you’ve been pretty unsubtly at times. Jen in MK offended a work colleague when referring to herself being scruffy whilst talking this particularly unkempt colleague. Anita in Bletchleys’ Mum offended someone making unsuitable comments about their size and Charlotte in Weedons’ dad used to call her boyfriends the wrong name! So we’re all guilty of it.  Katrina in MK won £120 with More Staff as each morning we’re testing your knowledge of the last 20 years and you can win cash. So make sure you join us in the morning and you could win too. Enjoy the sunshine

Natalie x

 

Friday 24th June

Today we had an official ceremony to name Natalie’s boobs…...see what you missed! 

There is a serious side to all this check out coppafeel.org who are doing some amazing work to encourage women to check their boobs more regularly by actually coming up with names for them.  They will then text you every month with a reminder to check your newly named boobs.  It’s a simple but fun idea which hopefully will save lives. We hear that Lorraine Kelly has named hers Pinky and Perky so Natalie thought it was about time she named hers!  She really liked our suggestion of The Two Ronnies however we then teased her that it might be because one was funnier than the other or maybe one is smaller than the other?

In the end she really liked the idea of Yogi and Booby from that cartoon so that is it from now on they shall be referred to as thus!  Well how do I follow that up I am off home this weekend to name my……….well I’ll leave that your imagination!

Have a great Weekend!

S x

Thursday 23rd June

On the show today you were telling us about being a bad loser – with Wimbledon under way we’ve already had a hissy fit from Alex Bromolov Jnr who threw his racquet down with such force that it sprung over the wall of Court 17. I too am a bad loser when it comes to tennis or any competitive sport. I challenged my BF to a game when we’d just started going out last year, and completely bigged myself up as being a pretty decent player. Not only did I lose, but I right royally fell over! Needless to say I sulked for a good while after, but tried to hide it from him as it was of course early days. Now he knows better. Stuart said he used to have to let his friend who was a bad loser win, as they went into such a stop! Alison in Towcester’s hubby has a red devil mascot he throws round the room whenever Man Utd lose and Stu was so annoyed at losing a snooker game he broke his brand new cue in a way that John McEnroe would be proud of!

So we do all need to get better at counting to ten before the red mist passes our eyes I guess! We also heard from Chris O Down, one of the stars of Bridesmaids a brilliant new movie out this weekend. He gave us reasons why men should go and see it, saying ‘man up – it’s a comedy’. If you’re wanting to go this weekend, and your fella gives the chic flic excuse, this really is a funny film, which men will laugh at – ladies you will be crying with laughter!  Hear what our showbiz editor Charlie Girling has to say about it on the show in the morning, and we’ve got an amazing show lined up for you.

Have a good day and see you in the morning

 Natalie x

 

Wednesday 22nd June

So Natalie is about to be bridesmaid for the seventh time and they say 3 times a bridesmaid never a bride….she has missed out twice!  However all that could be about to change  because at the wedding this weekend it will be their year anniversary plus her mum and dad will be there so not far to go to ask the parents permission.  I had great fun speculating this morning and winding Natalie up although she did say that her boyfriend had dropped a not so subtle hint himself saying he thought that a bar of chocolate would make a great wedding invite after they actually received one through the post!  Today we thought we’d help Natalie out by finding out the sort of hints you should drop if you want to get married.  Some of them weren’t actually subtle at all like the listener who was heavily pregnant but said ‘I won't go into labour unless I have a ring on my finger’

I decided to create a series of tunes for the car that Natalie could play on the way up to the wedding that might just help.  First off Beyonce ‘Single Ladies’ followed by Elton John ‘Kiss the Bride’ maybe?  If you are looking for something more subtle then how about ‘I’ll be there’ as in the wedding aisle and to round things off a little bit of Usher!  I even came up with a title ‘Now that’s what I call getting hitched’

See you in the morning!

S x

Tuesday 21st June

So today is National Kissing Day and we gave you the option of giving us a list of 3 famous people you’d be allowed to kiss. The idea stemmed from that episode of Friends where Ross and Rachel talk about the people they’d have on the list after Chandler told them about it. The list has to be laminated, which means it can’t be changed! You had fun with this, although we were often taken by surprise by some of the choices – especially that someone wants to kiss Producer Josh!

Brian put me in his list along with Lilly Allen and Kate M?? Emily met Stu at the Race for Life in Northampton and said him! Then you got carried away… Katie in Caddington said my kiss list Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Dreyfuss and a bit more smooching with Richard Dreyfuss! Karina admitted she’d kiss Jonny Depp, Mark Feehily, and Jason Orange and told us, she kisses her Mark Feehily posters !! Emma said - Peter Andre cause he would be a lovely step dad to my children and a lovely husband to me  - she’s forward planning. Mandy in Finedon went for Alan Tichmarsh, Patrick Swazy and Steve Leonard and Angie in Kingsthorpe followed Katie in Caddington’s lead citing David Bekham, David Beckham and David Beckham  on her kiss list, saying once not enough!! I hear you Angie.

 What fun we had, if you’ve not done it – you have a free pass to do so, we’re only talking hypothetically. Mine is very specific – Jonny Depp as Sweeny Todd (!), Christian Bale upside down as Batman and Jeff Bridges for the older man – as he looked in Tron.. I’m not fussy  - honest! Stu’s list – Dawn French, Rhianna and … wait for it.. .The Queen.. We think he’s probably end up in the tower.

We’ll be back tomorrow finding out about the hints you dropped to get your other half to pop the question.. it’s Wedding Season after all and I’m being a bridesmaid once again J

Have a good day

Natalie

 

 

Monday 20th June

I can’t believe we spent loads time on this mornings show discussing how long it was acceptable for food to be on the floor before re-serving it!!

This was after a survey revealed that out of 2000 people 15% of us have actually served floor pie!  Natalie reckoned that the 3 second rule should apply, if it’s on the floor for more than that then don’t serve it.  I hope she has a stopwatch in the kitchen!

It seems that loads of you agreed but there was some debate about the length of time it could stay on the floor. 

13 year old Lucy rang us to say 3 seconds for bad food, 10 seconds for ok food and a staggering 22 seconds for really good food. We asked her why 22 seconds as it seemed a little specific?  She told us that she had learnt at school that bacteria takes 22 seconds to get into food?!  Well I am not sure about that but you can always rely on a pupil to set you right on these matters!

I remember as a kid our cat managed to grab a whole leg of lamb that was defrosting for guests and we caught that cat trying to drag it out of the catflap!  My mum had to rescue it and perform some cosmetic surgery on it before serving it for Sunday lunch and people were none the wiser. 

It’s national kissing day tomorrow so join us from 6 as we find out your top three ‘allowed’ celebrities on your kiss list! If George Clooney approached you and asked for a kiss would you do it? Even if you had a partner?

See you in the morning

S x

Friday 17th June

What is it with this rain! Not impressed, although it’s good for the garden, especially Stu’s allotment as today on the show we were introduced to ‘Colin the Corgette’ Stu’s first vegetable… last week at the Race for Life in MK he let me taste a bit of his home grown lettuce but he’s claiming that Colin won’t be eaten. We’ll see! The pair of us will be at the two Race for Life’s in Northampton this Sunday, so we look forward to seeing you there. Lots of you taking part as you were telling us on our three word weekend as well as Lisa in Northants who is off strawberry picking. Stuart was trying to convince Lisa that strawberries get their name from the fact that straw is put around the base of the plants and Anna in our office agreed, saying the slugs don’t like the straw so they stay away – is this really true?

 Yesterday I went a slapped my thigh at the Alban Arena to meet the stars of this year’s Panto – none other than Toyah Wilcox and Phil Gallagher who is CBeebies Mister Maker.. Toyah is very excited about being the Wicked Queen to Snow White and I must say had VERY impressive false eyelashes on that she fluttered at me!

 We’re back on Monday finding out about your Dinner party disasters… look forward to hearing how you entertain your guests!

Have a good weekend

Natalie x

 

 

Wednesday 15th June

Last night I was wowed at MK Theatre, watching Midnight Tango with Strictly’s Vincent and Flavia. I went to see the show with Producer Arianne and the pair of us couldn’t take our eyes of Flavia! She not only had the most incredible back muscles, her perfectly made up legs shimmered and shone as they were flung in-between Vincent’s, around his head, generally she looked like a feather. What was also impressive is you couldn’t hear anybody’s feet as they flew around the stage. Definitely a 10 from us.. we were wondering whether we’d ever be able to dance Tango… many lessons needed me thinks!

 A crazy show on heart breakfast with Cerrie winning Take That tickets as we reopened our Ticket Office for the Take That Progress tour, did you hear apparently Robbie split his trousers on stage in Cardiff last night! One texter sent a message saying they’d overslept and had they missed the chance to win, you see, the ticket office at any time in the show. So if you’re wanting to win tickets you really need to be listening to us from 6am! Also join our facebook page as we’ll keep you posted on Take That news there too.

See you tomorrow from 6am

Natalie x

 

Monday 13th June

Stu and I had a busy weekend, starting with the Race for Life at MK Bowl on Saturday, we were so pleased the sun was shining and so many of you turned up – make sure you look for your picture if you were there, at our Race for Life galleries HERE

It was an amazing race, the first one at the MK Bowl, without the hill of Campbell Park!! There were lots of pinks wigs and cowboy hats, we had bumble bees, even Sesame Streets Bert & Ernie turned up. One unbelievable lady was 76 year old Stella who did the 5K race on her zimmer frame, before having to return to hospital for dialysis for Kidney failure – what a lady! Also we heard a speech from Sharon Edgehill who talked about her experience fighting bladder cancer and the friends she lost. Despite having her bladder removed Sharon is a keen runner, and will has a place in the London 2012 Marathon. She’s determined to raise awareness of the lack of diagnosis for Bladder cancer, particularly amongst young women and her daughter Corinna did a fab street dance in memory of her friend Robyn who she lost last September aged 19. So many of you shared your stories with us, and it really is a privellidge for Stu and I to mark the day with you. It’s a memorable day for so many people and for many different reasons – and we must mention Kelly Hadley from Rushden who finished in about 28 minutes to be met by her boyfriend Dan Jones from Wellingborough, who was down on one knee with a bunch of red roses and he proposed. Once Kelly had her breath back and wiped her slightly damp brow, she shrieked yes and you can see the happy couple here.

We’ll be in Abington Park in Northampton next Sunday, so if you’ve not yet registered you can do so HERE and we’ll see you there.

 We were also extremely excited to open out Take That ticket office on the show today and Jason won a pair of tickets to see the band play at Wembley on Thursday 30th June. You could win tomorrow, so make sure you’re listening from 6am.

Enjoy your day

Natalie x

 

   

Friday 10th June

We can’t wait until Monday!  Our Heart Take That ticket office is open and you could win tickets just by listening to Heart all next week!  We have all the details you need on Monday morning and even we don’t know when the ticket office will open.   It could even be during Mondays show how exciting!

We are just getting ready for our big race for life event tomorrow morning in Milton Keynes they are always such fun and we are particularly looking forward to the workout before the race with those Rosemary Connelly fitness experts! 

Look for us at the front if you are coming we will be the ones slightly out of time and struggling to keep up with everyone!   Don’t forget if you are coming down we will do some mentions before the race to send you on your way!  Good luck to everyone taking part it’s such a worthy cause raising money for Cancer Research UK.

Have an amazing weekend!

Stu x

Thursday 9th June

Yesterday I found my inner child and went to Butterfly World in St Albans, with my face painted as a butterfly. I was trying to recreate the scene from Ugly Betty where she’s covered in butterflies, and a few did land on me in the very warm Tropical Butterfly house. It was a treat although the boyfriend wasn’t too amused, but then he was the one who wanted to go play on the rather impressive wooden rope bridge!

On the show today you told us about the shortest jobs you’d had. Stuart was a ‘bean grader’ once for 3 hours! Until he was down graded. I lasted 2 weeks in a call centre after being told off for not sticking to the script I was given and being too honest with callers! Cheryl lasted a day putting the paper lids and elastic bands on jam jars, Jo said she lasted 3hrs at a jelly factory when they fell off the conveyor belt but she hadn’t noticed

Michelle in Dunstable said many years ago I left a good job to work in a tea bag factory cos it was more money, spent 1 day packing teabags and thought I was going insane, never went back, nearly put me off tea for life! Donna said her shortest job was my first job whilst at school and lasted 4 hrs working at a fast food place I went home and fell up the stairs and broke my foot and she never went back. and Ken in East Hunsbury lasted 3hrs as a trainee double glazing salesman.

Tomorrow we’ve got a treat in store for fans of Peppa Pig and we’ll be finding out your weekend in 3 words.

See you tomorrow, don’t get wet!
Natalie

 

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Wednesday 8th June

How would you feel if your partners best friend was a member of the opposite sex? 

That was the question we asked you this morning after Natalie revealed that an ex boyfriend had a best friend who was a leggy blonde!  She understandably wasn’t very happy about it but how would you feel?

Most of you thought it all came down to how attractive they were and a surprising number of you were ok with it.  We Even had one married man who was taking his best friend (female) to Glastonbury for the weekend and they were sharing a tent together!!!  Then there was Anne from Bedford who was a bit fed up with her fella as he was always hanging around  with lots of promo girls dressed in skimpy outfits!  With Anne’s permission we asked you what you thought and lets put it this way we had lots of texts with the word ‘Go’ on it.  Well you did ask Anne.

Always great catching up with our showbiz correspondent Charlie who was on today to tell us about Tom Hanks latest movie premiere at Westfield shopping centre.  She is a busy woman and without thinking today said ‘Morning Ladies’ to myself and Natalie lol!  I have been called worse!

Have a great day!

Stuart

 

Tuesday 7th June

Today we were talking about pathetic rows! Apparently in the UK couples argue 312 times a year… we’re sure most of them must be pathetic! I had a bit of a tiff with the BF after he told me not to use softner when washing his clothes and likewise I said not to wash my stuff without… pointless or what. Stuart had a cafuffle with his other half about buying black tomatoe plants.. he lost! You told us all sorts of pathetic rows. Emma in Kettering argued over how to light a chinese lantern! Michael got into trouble using the wrong tomatoes when making tomatoes on toast. Debbie said, when she and her husband first got together and had separate bank accounts they used to argue about who was paying for the shopping and most shocking was Natalie who told us her hubby had presented her with a birthday present yesterday, which was a pair of PJ’s 3 sizes too big, with a card saying ‘second on the lips… lifetime on the hips’… ouch! Natalie wasn’t happy and her best friend Candice got in touch to tell us, the pair still weren’t talking. So we have compiled our top 5 things to avoid so you don’t have arguments!

5. Softner for Softies (see above)

4. Top Gear on Repeat – Mary told us she’d had enough of her hubby always watching Top Gear and they always argue over it!

3.Tomatoe Blunder (see above)

2. PJ Gate (see above)

1. Spaghetti…

OK – this is my bad! Mary got in touch to say she had a pathetic row with her hubby as he bought cheap thinned spaghetti, rather than Heinz, which I then read out on air. Mary got back in touch, rather annoyed (almost about to have a row) stating I should have realised… so OOPS – mistake from me end.. and on air apology along with BLOG apology Mary… sorry! Not something I say very often J

 We’ll be back in the morning, with more hilarity to wake you up and make you smile.

Enjoy your day

Natalie x

 

Monday 6th June

So I made it back from Hen #2 in Espana, we did crazy golf, karaoke, shot, sunbathing and recreated ‘that’ scene in American Beauty with the rose petals… all I say is there were rose petals, but whipped cream, pink glasses, a bride to be sash and pink fluffy handcuffs were involved! It was lots of fun, but a very late night so was a bit tired this morning. Stu was all excited having spent yesterday morning at Stanborough Park in Welwyn at our first Race for Life. Make sure you check out our gallery and we’ll both be at the Bowl in MK this Saturday so be great to see you.

 On the show today we were asking about your OCD’s as Stu has just catalogued his wardrobe Tees and Sleeves, Light knits and Hoodies ( I kid you not!) my BF is slightly obsessed with water marks and I kind of drive him mad leaves spots of water around after making a cuppa or leaving the sink soaking wet. You also find this annoying!  Including Candice who said - when my kids have washed there hands at the kitchen sink, after drying there hands,on kitchen towel/tissue,they have 2 wipe around the sink area,including taps,with kitchen towel/tissue 2 remove any water marks or evidence that the sink has been used!

Jen told us, I have MAJOR OCD. Already said about the table laying. I also stack the cups at work in colour order alternately. There were a few issues with bananas! Jo said she cuts the ends off bananas because I was told spiders lay their eggs in the ends so I just eat the middle.

 Mary said - my husband says its like the film sleeping with the enemy. With me its cupboard doors, i close them before they finish in them, my black and white cups have to be lined up black on right white on the left. Stacking the pots in the drawer in the right order. Drives me mad. Anne in Bedford confessed she had lots of OCD 'quirks':cds in certain order;tins sorted;hoardin! Biggest ones are in bathrooms=loo seats down,washing taps,n v careful touching door handles! Julie was naughty, telling us how she winds up her hubby about his obsession with numbers eg. the volume, which have to be even or divisible by 5 when listening / watching something ! Its great fun, I spend most of my time trying to wind him up!

 I’m now off home to sleep and put some aloe vera on my burnt bits – ouch!

See you in the morning

Nat x

 

   Friday 3rd June

On the show today we wanted to know what made you smile as we had £300 to give away from our feel good fund, thanks to Colgate.

As always you shared some absolute treats with us, there were too many to mention so here’s a few:

Karen in Duston said I received a new car this week the first time for  eight years and technology has changed so much that when I went out in it I couldn’t find the handbrake so I had to go round the roundabout 3 times waiting for the hill to  clear of cars! 

Vicki said she smiled when she found out she hadn’t completely bankrupted herself by getting olympics tickets!

Wendy said I wasn’t speaking to my boyfriend for 2 days and then we made up and now I have a big smile. 

Louise said the delivery guy who brought my shopping playing along when the door was opened and he was greeted by 3 superheroes! My little boy and his two friends were all dressed up and it made their day and made me smile!

I love this from Kim - My grand daughter asked me, nanny did you see Jesus when you were a little girl, I said no love way before my time then after a minute or so she said nanny did u see dinosaurs?  I said no love way before nanny time after a long pause she said nan did you see half pence’s, I said yes we had half pence’s she said wow that is old nan! Thank god I didn’t say yes to seeing Jesus! 
Hope those made you smile and we’ll be back on Monday with some very exciting news if you’re a Take that fan!

Have an amazing weekend!

Stu x

Thursday 2nd June

What a glorious day it is today, the sun is shining and we’ve been giving you another chance to win tickets to the 80’s Rewind  Festival this August. Monica won apair of tickets just by working out we’d rewound UB40’s Red Red Wine… and you can do the same tmw morning after 7.35. We were also talking robots, as the world’s fastest Rubik’s cube solving robot has been created, but we wanted to know what you would like a robot for as part of text in the blank. Amelia was hilarious with her idea of a robot that shouted “exterminate” at people in shops who didn’t put things back where they ought to.. she works in a high street fashion chain and has first hand experience of this!

We were also hearing about when your kids have talked you into trouble as my friend Hannah had her 4 yr old bust her about the shoes she’d been buying! Duncan in Stotfold tried to get his 5 yr old into Thorpe Park free, being under 4, but his son wasn’t having any of it and piped up – ‘No Daddy I’m 5 not 4’.. also Coral told us about her 8 year old son who couldn’t wait to tell Daddy how she’d scraped the car whilst out Christmas shopping! Bless, well we do teach kids not to lie, so what can we expect!

I was watching Gary Barlow at the X-Factor auditions in Birmingham yesterday, whilst at my gym and I must say, starting to get very excited about seeing the concert. I’ve got to wait until 9th July! We’ve got something special if you are a Take That fan coming up at Heart, so make sure you don’t miss any of our announcements / facebook pages. Not quite sure about Robbie telling us about his homone injections in the press today, but then you never can predict what Mr Williams will do next. He’s also said he’s working on a solo album with Gary writing and producing it, so we look forward to that.

We’ll be back tomorrow, have you enjoyed the half – term week – hope so! Enjoy the sunshine and don’t forget if you’re in Northants you can read our colum in the Wellingborough & Rushden Herald & Post  and the Northampton Herald & Post

See you tmw from 6am x

Natalie x

 

Wednesday 1st June

Being single has never been so much fun especially if you like to try a little internet dating!  Have you seen this new website uniformdating.com which pretty much does what it says on the tin!  You could really be playing Doctors and Nurses or find yourself a handsome Beefeater and I am not talking someone in a McDonalds uniform!   It seems that there are loads of these specific interest dating websites out there.  We found one for green fingered gardeners but after further investigation we couldn’t see many singles actually listing their interests as gardening, maybe they just took it as read and when on a first date they talked about bedding plants over a watering can of weedkiller! 

Lynn from Northampton called us up and she thought it would be a great idea to have a dating website for Grandparents…great idea we reckon! The chap in the picture seems to be enjoying the idea too!  Lynn classed herself as a glamorous gran and I wondered whether she would be more suited to a toyboy certainly she would require someone with all their own teeth at the very least!

Don’t forget our Big Town Showdown where we are looking for the cleverest town across Herts, Beds, Bucks or Northants.  Check out our leaderboard on the breakfast pages here and instead of shouting at the radio next time why not register to play?  Poor old Diana in Yielden who we spoke to today is currently at the bottom of our leaderboard so maybe you can do better than that?   Your town needs you!

Have a great day see you in the morning!

Stu x

Friday 27th May

We had Masterchef’s John Torode on the show today, telling us about what good cooks he thinks Prince William and Kate are and how he was in a changing room next to Lady Gaga the other week and saw all the food they had, which was literally – apples and pears!! We also had the JLS boys sending a message to Cheryl Cole that they’ll all give her big hugs when she comes back to Blighty. Poor Cheryl, she’s not had a good week has she! But you have and you were telling us what made you smile as we opened our feel good fund with Colgate and there were so much fab stuff going on with you we wanted to share some of it here:

Amanda smiled when her work mate coming in to work on her day off .Lara Stevenson said it made me smile this week when she heard that my dad, who is in a home as he has severe Alzheimer's, recognised a picture of his new grandson ahhhh   Carla in Northampton. I felt my unborn baby move for the first time this wk. Amazing makes it real there's a life inside me and Claire in Dunstable  told us her 7 year old son got the all clear from Great Ormond St having been poorly for nearly 2 years :-) that made us all smile.

We love hearing what’s made you smile so keep listening for when we next open our feel good fund. Next week we’ve got the Luton Carnival on Monday and Stu and I will be in the procession so give us a wave if you’re there. Hopefully the weather will hold for us.

I’m off to get my feet nibbles by some fish in St Albans, which is a new type of pedicure that’s been compared to dipping your feet in champagne… I must say I’m sceptical so will report back on how it went..

Enjoy the bank holiday weekend and if we don’t see you at Luton Carnival, we’ll be with you Tuesday morning from 6am

Natalie x

 

Wednesday 25th May

Today we told you about the secretary who met her boss, had an office romance and ended up marrying him.  He then stayed at home and she ended up running the company and they say office romance is dead!    Natalie wasn’t so sure about office romance having got her fingers burnt in the past but I think there is nothing like a little bit of office flirtation to get you through the day!   We had some brilliant stories from you on both sides including the security guard who had an office romance and then lost the business when it all went wrong plus an eighteen month kennel romance that’s humans not dogs!  If you want to see more great stories like that don’t forget to check out facebook.com/hearthomecounties.

Did you hear about the school that bans parents from actually dropping their kids off for school whilst dressed in their pyjamas!  I have been into the supermarket before in my jim jams, my only tip as a fella is you just have to be careful about those holes and flaps in mens pyjamas if you know what I mean.  As for mums I think the best suggestion we had in this morning was from our text in the blank winner who said lets get all the mums together at the school gates dressed in Pyjamas and form an all girl group called Pyjamarama!

See you in the morning!

S x

Tuesday 24th May

Last night I behaved like a slight boy racer as my flatmate drove me to the theatre in Dunstable in a bright yellow Corsa! So she was my chauffer to go to see Blood Brothers, which all I knew about was that it was something to do with Liverpool! It was slightly odd at first as grown ups were playing kids, but once the tale got going it all made sense.. Do you remember Nicky Evans of X-Factor fame, she was the main role of Mrs Johnston!

On the show today you told us about the first holiday’s you had without your parents as my niece Phoebe has just been on her first PGL holiday. I loved my trips away, going kayaking, windsurfing, abseiling – fearless as I was as a kid. Producer Josh just played spin the bottle when he was sent away to Christian camp and Stu went all posh being flown down to Cornwall aged 6 to see his nan and playing in rock pools! It was funny hearing from Nicky the Scout Leader at The Triangle who told us about the Scouts who never changed or unpacked their bags or those who seemed to have much more fun than they should in the faith tent!!

Not forgetting of course Bronwen in Northants pipped Coach Driver Dave to the post guessing our underwater movie as Jaws – Dave got stuck on ‘Shark 1’ that well known Spielberg movie… Anyway Bronwen has an amazing pass to Legoland Windsor plus £500 and you  have a chance to win again tomorrow.

We’ll be with you from 6am

Have a super duper day

Natalie x

Monday 23rd May
So ‘The Only Way is Essex’ won a BAFTA!
Like most people we were a bit shocked but very amused that they won. According to the Series Producer the show is described as structured reality and as we heard from Towie’s Sam they were convinced that Big Fat Gypsy Wedding had actually won!  What if both shows had gone rushing to the stage that would have been a reality show too far as they both fought over the prized BAFTA….more destructive reality I would imagine!

 

We found an incredible app today that is perfect for anyone that goes out of a night and then sends that late night facebook or twitter message that they really regret in the morning. We thought that you probably wouldn’t need such an app so asked you to send us the last text you sent to see if we were right, well how wrong can we be. Kate in Harpenden had sent such a text regarding a guy she had just met and told her mate in confidence he had weird hair that looked like a badger! Unfortunately she sent it to the guy in question…whoops….one app on its way to you Kate!

Back in the morning with your chance to win 4 passes to Legoland Windsor and £500 cash!
See you
Sx

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Friday 20th May

 

On the show today we wanted to give you the chance to feel good once again, with an annual pass to Whipsnade, along with cash for answering animal questions and Tina in Northampton won £400. Not only that we asked what made you smile – as Colgate are Keeping Britain Smiling and for telling us you got to win a luxury spa date. Jasmin was so happy as her brother was back from Afganistan for two weeks so she’s gonna be taking him to the spa with her. Lets hope she doesn’t post any pictures of him in a dressing gown and facemask on facebook!

We loved your messages, there were so many. Here’s some of our faves: 

I'm 38 years old & live 3.5 hours away from my sister who is also my best friend. She rang on Weds to say she was visiting this weekend with my niece. I haven\'t stopped smiling since! Sharon.

My 12 yr old Hannah received sports awards at school yesterday, this made me smile as she was on crutches 4 a year last year wiv hip problems, wot am achievement. Julie Davies Hemel

My cat with just 2 teeth eating all his meat! He couldn't eat before having his teeth out. Got really thin but makes me smile now watching him eat . I\'m like a proud mum! Marilyn

My 5 and 6 year old boys made me smile this week by telling each other really bad jokes in bed when they should have been a slept happy memories Vickie 

 My  daughter getting a little confused by calling a cleavage a conservatory Fiona

My 5 yr old daughter just had an xray and turned and asked how they took photos of your bones without taking your skin off 

We’ll be back on Monday, giving you the chance to explain the last text you sent, especially if you didn’t mean to send it!!

Have a good weekend

Natalie

 

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Wednesday 18th May

We were like detectives today uncovering a bit of a Gok shock story!  Helen got in touch with us the other day to say she spotted Donna who was on Gok’s fashion Fix when it came to Kettering and in her words she had let the new look go a bit!  It was a proper Cinderella moment but instead of a pumpkin and mice it was old trackie bottoms and slightly messy hair so we thought we’d better find out what was going on?  And we actually tracked down Donna herself who told us she was actually maintaining the look but sometimes it was a case of comfort first which is fair enough I guess.  You went on to tell us all about your Cinderella moments which included falling over in  the church on your wedding day and ending up cleaning the oven after an amazing party!

Don’t forget tomorrow is your final chance to win cash as we celebrate ZSL Whipsnade’s 80th birthday so swat up on your animal general knowledge and listen from 6!

See you in the morning

Stu x

Tuesday 17th May

On the show this morning on the show, we compiled a list to rival one published recently by Country Life magazine, highlighting the skills school leavers should have. Here’s what we’ve put on it, with the full list from them below!!

OUR LIST

Use Chopsticks
Peel a prawn
Write a letter / cheque
Tidying your room
Basic first aid
Dress properly
How to aim into the loo – for boys
Ballroom dancing
Art of compromise

COUNTRY LIFE’S LIST:

·        Cook three different dinner party menus

·        Say 'Can you help me please' in Arabic, Cantonese, Urdu, Spanish and Russian

·        Play a musical instrument, even if it's just the tom-toms or a mouth organ

·        Ride a horse to jackaroo standard

·        Be a 'tech whisperer', able to fix and set up the latest technogadgets

·        Talk about five classics of English literature with authority and passion

·        Perform resuscitation on someone who has stopped breathing

·        Know how to grow carrots from seed, distinguish five native trees, identify 20 flowers and arrange a bunch

·        Handle a shotgun, skin a rabbit, gut a fish and pluck a pigeon

·        Repair a bicycle puncture and fix the chain

·        Dance the eightsome reel, waltz to Strauss and bop to Lady Gaga

·        Taste the difference between Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay and know how to mix a mojito or margarita

·        Write a memorable thank you letter

·        Recognise music by Mozart, Elgar and Handel

·        Put up a shelf and change a plug

·        Tie a bow tie, bowline and Bloody Butcher

·        Sail a boat across the Solent

·        Carve a joint of meat

·        Tell the difference between Gothic, Baroque and Palladian architecture

·        Make a speech, entertain an audience with a joke or an anecdote, and sing at least two songs by heart

·        Drive a tractor, reverse a trailer, renew engine oil and change a wheel

·        Find their way round five capital cities

·        Host a party and put others at their ease

·        Sustain a 10-shot rally at tennis

·        Build a bonfire and lay a fire

·        Perform three good card tricks

·        Identify five constellations and find the North Star

·        Score a cricket match

·        Talk knowledgeably about five British landmarks

·        Uncork and pour a bottle of Champagne

·        Iron a shirt, sew on a button and sew up a hem

·        Amuse small children for at least an hour with magic tricks and storytelling

·        Read a map, pitch a tent and pack a rucksack

·        Be authoritatively acquainted with at least one work by da Vinci, Constable, Degas, Turner and Canaletto

·        Manage a bank account

·        Slip away from a football riot

·        Address a member of the Royal Family

·        Complain effectively but politely in a restaurant

·        Deliver a lamb

We’ll be back in the morning from 6am
Natalie

 

Monday 16th May

There are some really weird names out there at the moment, did you hear about Alicia Silverstone calling her baby Bear Blue?  We were chatting about this the other day in the office and I discovered that Natalie has already chosen an unusual name for her child should it be a boy.  I should point out at this stage that she is not actually pregnant!    Sadly I couldn’t manage to find out what the name actually was so I decided to try and guess and the best I could come up with was Blancmange!  You got in touch today with loads of amazing names including the football fan who called his child  Lanesra which is Arsenal backwards.  The fashion fan who called her children Armani and Levi. My favourite is the name Ebryl which apparently was made out of left over scrabble characters and a girl called Moon but we forgot to ask her whether she had a sun sorry I mean son! 

Great to catch up with Stacey Solomon on the show today who revealed she is an expert diver which suits her really well as everything underwater moves really slowly!  When it comes to chatting she really likes to keep going even when underwater and is able to write things down on something attached to her wrist whilst diving.  Unfortunately it has to be the size of a blackboard as our Stacey so loves to chat doesn’t she.  We loved having her on the show so come back soon Stacey.

Have a great day and see you in the morning!

Stu x

 

Friday 13th May

Yey! We had even more Johnny Depp on the show today, as it was the UK premier of the new Pirates movie and our showbiz editor Charlie Gurling got to see the man himself in the flesh. She said he looked like he had a lot of make-up on, still it’s Johnny Depp!!

We were finding out what’s made you smile this week as our feel good month of May continues and this morning we opened the ‘feel good fund’ giving you the chance to win passes for Go Ape for you and your family, thanks to Colgate. Our favourite smile moment was Mark in Welwyn Garden city who told us ‘Whilst teaching his daughter good manners he asked her the magic word when he gave her some sweets "abracadabra silly" she replied innocently!’ perfect! Other favourites included :

My baby girl rolling over and trying to crawl made me smile :) Elizabeth Barratt in Wellingboro, Kelli in Arlesey said: my smiley moment was watching my six year old daughter laugh until she cried at the circus last night!  Emma told us, the thing that made me smile this week is my hoover still worked after my 2 year old little girl sucked the contents of my mop bucket up, Julia said listening to u guys on the way to work, makes the drive not seem so long and the day not so bad, Kris said my 26 year old daughter called me her dad for the first time after 12 years felt great thanks, Alex in Luton told us my smiley moment was when i decided to eye my hair blonde and turned out ginger... Then went bright orange and Emma said my smile moment  - I  was stood in the front of a mirror seeing if the diet was working when my 3 year old asked if i was having another baby!

Thanks so much for these and we’ll have more chances to win for you from Monday at 6am.

Enjoy the weekend

Natalie x

 

Thursday 12th May

We had the most incredible call from Katie in Caddington this morning.  We were talking about when you used to turn your bedroom into a Den and Katie called us up to tell us all about her bedroom which used to be a shrine to Michael Jackson when she was a kid. She really was obsessed and used to cut out the lyrics from songs and stick them on her wall. However when her brother used to try and come into her room and steal them she would actually eat them first rather than let him get his hands on them!  That’s one way of dealing with a thief!

Not sure if the print was colour or ‘Black or White’, there are other Michael Jackson gags I could place here but that would just be ‘Bad’!

Apparently Princess Beatrice’s dodgy hat is going on ebay according to mum Fergie.  It has its own facebook page and has been described as wedding pretzel by Natalie or how about a lavatory seat?!  I hope the reserve price is set at at least a fiver to avoid disappointment!  Personally I think people would pay for it just to have it as an ornament in their own home!

It’s nearly the weekend so make sure you listen in the morning as we have family passes up for grabs to ‘Go Ape’
See you in the morning !

S x

Wednesday 11th May

Do you know you’re Wibbly Pig from you Peppa Pig? Is Bob the Builder always fixing it in your household? Well on the show today, we took a right old trip down memory lane today, finding out the Kids TV shows you loved and would like to bring back. This was because we had Lorraine Kelly on the show who has her own kids tv show that started this week, called Raa Raa the Noisy Lion, maybe it’s already become a firm fave in your household. Now Lorraine sings the theme tune, which we thought was pretty brave and she told us she keeps her voice so silky smooth by singing in the car!! We gave her a selection of kids tv theme tunes to see who she thought could re sing them. She fancied the Gallagher brothers reuniting, to do a good rendition of The Wombles, named Eamon Holmes as the perfect fit The Flinstones and quite appropriately picked Katie Perry for Rainbow  - you can picture her in a giant rainbow can’t you! Beryl called to say she loved Rainbow and would definitely bring it back, Owen in Bedford wanted to bring back the Clangers, by taking them to Essex and Sally said she thought Olly Murs could replace Rod Hull in Emu’s Pink Windmill and Stu thought Anne Widecomb could be Grotbags, I used to be terrified of her......Grotbags that is!

 We’ve made a list of the top ten kids tv show’s you’d like to bring back – sure you’ll agree, they don’t make them like they used to!

1. Bagpuss

2. Clangers / Button Moon

3. Thundercats

4. The Flumps

5. Cracker Jack

6. The Flinstones

7. Hong Kong Phooey

8. Worzel Gummidge

9.Raggy Dolls

10. Rentaghost

see you in the morning from 6am

Natalie x

 

Tuesday 10th May

If you have been enjoying the warm weather and having the odd BBQ, is it just me or does the smoke always seem to follow you around wherever you choose to stand?  Everytime I move it seems to follow me so what better I thought than the smokeless BBQ and I am not talking just an oven outdoors.  Today we asked you what else you wish had been invented?  Natalie would like a notebook that she can write things in whilst swimming although we are not quite sure how you can swim and write at the same time?  You had some brilliant ideas like the car that shakes all your snow off but some we were not so sure about it like edible plates.  Can you imagine being out on a date and the other person starts tucking into a plate….not the most romantic sight in the world!  Inventor Mandy Haberman who gave us the Any Way Up cup even got in touch to judge some of your ideas in a Dragons Den style. Great news we then heard from Sally Maskell  this morning who along with her husband are boiler makers restoring steam engines and they came up with this BBQ with its own chimney…brilliant a smokeless BBQ and I want one! 

Lovely Lorraine Kelly is on the show in the morning and we’ll be talking kids television as she is the voice of a brand new show so standby for a trip down memory lane!

Have a great day!

S x

Monday 9th May

Happy Monday to you,

So hopefully it’s not been too much of a shock to the system having to go to work on a Monday after all this time off. Stu and I had very eventful weekends, with his Glamping in the New Forest through the electric storm over the weekend. I went slightly more upmarket and jetted off to the Amalfi coast in Italy for one of my best friend’s wedding. It was such a treat, and really felt like a taste of how the other half live! Don’t forget though Matt Jarvis is giving you the chance to win holiday’s each day this week on Drive with our celebrity check in.

On the show today we were finding out your first day at work disasters as my flatmate has just started a new job and so far, so good… I’m hoping it stays this way. You were hilarious as ever with your tales of inhaling bourbon biscuits in meetings and then spluttering them all over your colleagues to washing a dog in Regain – the hair restorer! Michelle told us she wore a suit dress on with buttons down the front and the guy interviewing asked if he could take her coat!  She had to tell him he would have a bit of a shock if she took it off!! Carly’s husband had cous cous for lunch at a conference ... And sneezed which meant the whole table had cous cous for lunch and Tom told us about his colleague William who on his first day, after 20 mins of starting put £120 of petrol in a diesel van. Oops! It happens to the best of us.

We’ll be back with you in the morning,  finding out what you think should have been invented by now… so thinking caps on… we are the dragons and may well invest!

See you in the morning

Natalie x

 

Friday 6th May

It’s Friday already and while Natalie is off being chief bridesmaid at a wedding in Italy I will be ‘glamping’ in the New Forest  If you didn’t know ‘glamping’ is suppose to be glamorous camping but somehow I think Natalie will be having the more glamorous weekend!   I have just looked at the forecast and rain is coming so even though we will be taking duvets and a coffee-maker it may be more welly’s and pac-a-macs we need!  Producer Josh was trying to tell me this morning that glamping defeats the object and I should be getting back to nature.  Well I am grinding my own coffee beans will that do lol? 

Don’t forget Louis Spence is taking over Club Classics this Saturday night as part of our feel good month of May so don’t miss that!

Have a great weekend!

See you Monday

Stu x

 

Thursday 5th May

On the show today we were googling ourselves as I’m currently doing work on my website and had to google my name to see where it came up. I’m either a rock guitarist or a baby photographer taking you from Woom to Bloom!! We looked at Stuart in google images and found another radio presenter called Stuart Miles, born in Luton who loves Indian food and drinking fizzy water. Stuart prefers a slightly stronger tipple. We had fun googling you – with Alison Lindsay being an adult entertainment star! Dave Chambers a refuse collector in Bedford is also a Cambridge University professor, Jane Clarke otherwise known as Britain’s leading nutritionist. Alan Matthews who said according to google, he died in 2009 when his light aircraft crashed and Mary Catania who found out she is a very successful artist selling  pictures for thousands, despite the subjects wearing very little!

If you’ve never googled yourself we think you should indulge as it’s fun and let us know what you found at www.facebook.com/hearthomecounties .

Stu is running the fort solo tomorrow as I’m off to the Amalfi Coast for my first bridesmaid role of 2011, I’ll be back on Monday hopefully with a happily wed couple and two more bridesmaid roles ahead of me. The BF is definitely going to be wedded out by the end of the year that’s for sure!

Have a great weekend and see you Monday

Natalie x

 

Wednesday 4th May

What makes a Real Man?  Don’t ask me I am the guy that once wore yellow jeans on T.V!   Natalie was wondering too after her boyfriend moved in with muffin trays and promptly taught her how to hang out the washing correctly!  So this morning we thought we would compile a list of what Real men shouldn’t do and you came up with some great ones!   Here are our top ten favourites. 

10.  Real men shouldn’t have longer hair than me or be prettier.

9.    Real men shouldn’t pluck their chest hair.

8.    Real men shouldn’t always say yes to Women.

7.    Real men shouldn’t wax their backs.

6.    Real men shouldn’t wash their nets or own a Ka

5.    Real men shouldn’t wear skinny jeans

4.    Real men don’t think they know everything.

3.    Real men shouldn’t have long nails.

2.    Real men shouldn’t wash their hair with baby shampoo and wear a thong.

1.    Real men shouldn’t wear make up or own a Chihuahua

 I am sat here working out which of these I actually don’t do lol!

Have a great day

Stu x

Tuesday 3rd May

Morning, so have you had a nice bank holiday? Have you, like Stuart and I forgotten what day it is or even how many days there should be in the week? I found myself going to the supermarket and buying things I already had in my fridge, as well as rather obsessively reading all the souvenir newspaper supplements about the Royal Wedding. For the last time I am going to have to say – oooh that dress… didn’t she look lovely! I have my first bridesmaid duty this weekend – it’s the Italy wedding where I’m chief bridesmaid, wearing yellow. So yes, tomorrow I think I’m going to dare to have a spray tan.. it could all end it tears although I hope not!

On the show today, you were giving me your tips on surviving a holiday with the parents, as I’ve booked to go away with the BF in the Summer, on his Dad’s sailing boat. Now I think this will be great fun, you were concerned we’d all fall out, and the advice from Graham was to stay quiet and drink lots of wine, Andy said to take a blow up dingy so I could escape and Sally in Dunstable said I should expect to be an on board servant… look if the worst comes to the worst, I’ll take over and have them all walk the plank.. I don’t watch Pirates of the Caribbean for nothing!

We’ll be back tomorrow compiling a list of the top 10 things that a real man shouldn’t do.. starting with Producer Josh has to stop plucking his chest hair! Yes really!

See you in the morning from 6am

Natalie x

 

Thursday April 21st

So Easter is nearly upon us and with all that chocolate around we thought we would hold Heart Breakfast’s first ever choc off!  It turns out that our Producer Josh is a huge chocoholic and even has his own chocolate stash so we thought we would see if we could find an even bigger chocoholic!  Lots of you contacted us including John who even tried to freeze chocolate to stop him eating it all at once and Stephie who would rather give up her boyfriend than chocolate!   So we pitted Josh against Stephie in the choc off and Josh lost!   Not only did he have to give up his chocolate stash but he also had to dress up as the Easter Bunny and we sent him off to Eggington to deliver lots of chocolate eggs!   Thanks to ‘Bookers’ of Luton for providing us with the eggs and to ‘The Works Fancy Dress’ in Northampton for dressing Josh in a fantastic Easter Bunny outfit!

I think you’ll agree he makes a great Bunnyboy!

We are off on our Easter break now and Matt Jarvis is here all next week with a fantastic competition that could see you winning a week long holiday to Corfu!  Love is certainly in the air next week as you have to identify famous love scenes in order to win!   You may well recognise the pair who are playing the parts of people like Hugh Grant and Renee Zellwegger!! 

Have an amazing Easter and we will see you back on Heart Breakfast on Tuesday May 3.

S and N

x

 

Wednesday April 20th

On the show today we were finding out about when you’ve been in the dog house as Stuart’s other half wasn’t too happy with the realisation that Stu had deleted a load of programmes off the old Sky box. Emma in Tring’s husband has gone straight in her bad books, after booking next week off, despite Emma having to work – so she’s giving him lots of gardening jobs! Mary’s hubby has been out snoring her dog and she’s been seriously thinking about making the pair of them sleep outside. Mandy told us about putting deep heat on her ex husbands undies after he was in the doghouse for misbehaving.. Stuart got off likely it seems!

Stu, Producer Josh and I were out about yesterday looking for the cleverest town across Herts, Beds, Bucks and Northants for the Big Town Showdown as tomorrow is the big reveal with an incredible prize up for grabs and you can still register – get yourself to www.heart.co.uk right now.  We’re also getting ready for a bit of time off over the Easter break and willing on the sunny weather, nothing better than chocolate in the sunshine hey! And tomorrow we’re looking for the regions biggest chocoholic as Producer Josh thinks it’s him.. Make sure you’re listening as there’ll be a chance for you to get your hands on some Easter chocolate… although Josh won’t be too happy about it.

See you tomorrow from 6am

Natalie 

 

Tuesday April 19th

Those of you checking today’s blog will no doubt be looking for one thing, Natalie’s semi naked Bungee jump that we talked about on the show today.  It was ofcourse accidental but hats off to her for managing to cover her modesty on the way down!  Here it is!

Just be grateful thatl no one took any photos of my white swimming trunks that went see through in the pool….note to self never buy white trunks again!  Mind you at least I didn’t do as badly as Chris who called us up.  He’s a swimming instructor and pulled his shorts down at the pool at the start of a lesson but suddenly realised he had forgotten to put his trucks on underneath…whoops! 

Have a great day in the sun!

Stu x

 

Monday April 18th

No matter what the papers say – we think Britain’s Got Talent and had a right giggle watching the new series on Saturday night. Firstly the lines that the Hoff comes out with and his various hair styles are hilarious and the idea to put Michael McIntyre on the panel was genius. He openly admitted on the show how he struggles to be rude to people when they’re stood in front of him, thinking they’ve done a good job- and we saw him on the show struggling to push that buzzer. You so know he’ll get better at it as the weeks go on.

We loved Stephen Hall, the 53 yr old telecommunications worker who had some of the best ‘dad dance’ moves –who’d have thought! He was even giving tips on how you too could move like him! On the show today we were celebrating the great British eccentricity, with Lainey telling us about her boss who flicked his cigar butts wherever resulting in small fires around the office, Jeff who told us his friend regularly takes part in 15th century battle enactments and Sophie who used to work as an estate agent with a guy who was serious when working, then would lark around the office with a marigold on his head, which he’d inflate and do a chicken dance!

Britain SO DOES HAVE TALENT! Stuart spent part of his weekend at a Wedding fair tormenting a local string quartet into playing Ant and Dec’s Ready to Rumble and my flatmate had her sewing machine out and the friends we had round took part in a ‘crafternoon’.. You’ve gotta try it, I admit, not very rock and roll but I got a free cushion cover out of it which is great!

See you tomorrow from 6am

Natalie x

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Friday April 15th
We caught up with Mel B on the show this morning who is rumoured to be moving back to the U.K.  I have missed Scary Spice she was always the one who spoke her mind and true to form she told us how useless her fella is during pregnancy as she compared bumps with our very own Showbiz Jo. We have started calling her Mel Bump from now on.  I’ve always wondered whether the Spice Girls really do all get on but as mel confessed sometimes they fall out just like sisters but they all end up talking in the end!

We heard from the new judges of Britains Got Talent this morning including the legend that is ‘the Hoff’ who confessed that when it comes to some of the acts he actually can’t understand them! That isn’t a problem for Michael McIntyre, the other new judge, who said that when it comes to judging he follows one simple rule, if they look awful then they probably are awful!  Take that with you this weekend if you need it  and make sure you are back with us on Monday as Dolly Parton is on the show!

Have a great Weekend!

Stu x

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Thursday April 14th
Today on the show we had dream interpreter Ian Wallace talking us through the strange dreams we’ve been having. Mine was that she was dressed in Khaki and was off to war because it was her duty to fight, but she couldn’t find her boyfriend. Apparently it means there’s some conflict in my life that I need to address. Stuart’s was that Madonna turned up at his house and they ended up ballroom dancing in his front room. He kept treading on her toes. Apparently this means his talent is being suppressed… how funny!

Here’s some that you sent though: Chrissie in Wellingborough said she dreams about things that happen the next day, but only remembers them when they happen. What does this mean? Someone poured white paint in my trainers which were on top of a paint tray. Karina From Luton has a recurring dream always about Mark from Westlife, that she’s gone to his wedding but she’s gate crashing. Then she finds out she’s marrying him and having his baby!
 
Another Chrissy in Northampton said her dream was she had to open her bedroom door, but it’s not her home and there are lions patrolling outside. Then when she looks down and some of her teeth have fallen out into her hands! Here are the top 5 most common dreams from Ian:

• Being chased
There is an issue that you want to confront but lack the confidence to do so. Turn around and ask your pursuer what they want and they will tell you how to resolve the issue.
• Teeth falling out
You are losing your confidence in dealing with a particular challenge. You have the power to overcome this obstacle but are just experiencing some self doubt.
• Unable to find a toilet
You have an emotional need that you are trying to express but are frustrated because you are always looking after the needs of other people, rather than looking after your own needs.
• Naked in public
Although you appear confident and in control to others, you are feeling vulnerable and exposed. This often occurs when you start a new job or relationship.
• Unprepared for an exam
You feel that you have not fulfilled an objective by a particular time and are judging yourself too harshly. Do what you want to do, not what others appear to expect of you.

And to find out more about Ian Wallace click here .

Nat x

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Wednesday April 13th

We had great fun chatting to Omid Djalili on this morning’s show; he is heading out on tour later in the year so we decided to help him out with a few ideas! Amazingly he thought he could find some material from Natalie’s idea of scrap-booking as he told us there was once a picture of him cut out and stuck in between Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt - now we know the real reason why they split up!  If you would like details of any of the tour dates then click here.

I had an awkward moment in the gym yesterday when I realised that my dreadful picture they took of me on the webcam is displayed on large monitors every time I enter the gym. Lets face it, those photos are never good and when I saw it I thought who is that awful cheesy grinning man up there….oh no ….it’s me. Call the airbrush expert immediately! Shame they don’t have a facelift machine at the gym!

Natalie has been mixing with the publishing fraternity and we decided this morning that everyone has a book in them. Natalie with her version of  ‘7 times a Bridesmaid when will I be a Bride?’ Mine is ‘How to Go Offley People’ an antidote to all those self help books about positivity - with reference to where I live now in Offley!

You had some great ideas like Susan with her book ‘Divorced and Dangerous’ a Sex and the City meets Jackie Collins type epic!  Or how about Debbie with her book about when is it right to marry a second time called ‘Debbie does Marriage’ 

Back tomorrow with a dream expert to help interpret your weird dreams!

See you in the morning!

Stu x

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Tuesday April 12th
How annoying is the TV in your house? Are there certain programmes other family members insist on watching that you can’t stand? After my BF spent most of his recovery from his back operation with Two And A Half Men, I got so fed up of seeing Charlie Sheen on screen that I’d just make a point of being on the phone loudly when it was on. Stuart’s partner watches Embarrassing Bodies which makes Stu cringe, so much so he’s deleted all the episodes they’ve recorded! Ha! It seems you are getting worked up too, with Dan in MK saying he can’t stand The Dog Whisperer and that his girlfriend loves it. Dan even gets wound up by the way the guy who presents it looks. Lisa in Daventry said her fiancée and eight year old daughter just love the programme Ice Road Truckers which was a firm favourite with a lot of you - along with American Chopper and One Born Every Minute – despite it causing arguments in the house! I think the solution is simple - just listen to the radio!

We’ll be back tomorrow morning from 6am finding out if you were going to write a book, what would it be called. After all - we all have a book in us apparently!

See you tomorrow

Natalie x

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Monday April 11th
So how was your weekend in the sun? Natalie and I both returned to work with Flip Flop related injuries! You may smile but when a large stone gets trapped between your foot and the flip flop there is no pain like it.   We both agreed that running in a pair of flip flops is almost impossible as you end up looking a bit like Oda May aka Whoopee Goldberg from Ghost.  It’s that bottom stuck out and the wiggle that gives it away. 

I am aching all over after a weekend in the garden and I have decided that the allotment workout is the way forward. Never mind the gym how about a bit of power hoeing or some interval troweling. Move over Charlie Dimmock and Alan Titchmarsh it’s Stu’s Dig it fitness DVD!  It has the strapline “don’t veg out and get your veg in!” What do you think? I've posted a pic of my allotment here - the result of my workout - I think its looking good!

If you are counting down the days until the Royal Wedding then make sure you don’t miss our new series based on My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding - It’s My Big Fat Royal Wedding.  It’s on everyday just after 8.00am and tomorrow Harry goes to pick up the Bacardi Breezers in his helicopter!  

Enjoy the sun today  and watch out for those flip flops!

Stu x

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Friday April 8th
Last night I went to my friends book launch – not only do I feel very mature having a friend that’s had a book launched, but it’s an inspiring read and I’ve only read the first chapter. Us ladies often get caught up in running around looking after everyone else and don’t get the chance to sort our own lives out which is where a little bit of inspiration can help. See what you think here . Yesterday on the show we were talking about that first hello and how it can be awkward and at the launch last night I saw a few ladies I knew and did the funniest thing, I kind of went in to kiss them hello, but then didn’t so ended up looking a bit like a turkey – which Stuart called the ‘poultry peck’ - not the most successful way to greet someone to be honest!

This weekend is going to beautiful and Stu is threatening to get his legs out – which we’ve termed the ‘sunshine hockey cokey’ – so do get involved, dare to bare but remember the sunscreen! I’m off to Brighton for hen do no.1. I’ve got three of my best mate’s getting married this year. Not only am I bridesmaid for all but I’m sorting the hen do’s… it’s like a full time job. We have a Madonna theme for this one, so I’m going for the Desperately Seeking Susan look – will let you see a piccie on Monday if I manage to pull it off!

So enjoy the mini-heatwave and see you Monday

Natalie x

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Thursday April 7th
Have you been doing the sunshine hokey cokey? You put your both legs in, your both legs out!   Is it time for those shorts or short skirts yet?! This morning I decided wearing a vest if you’re a guy is a good thing because you don’t get those funny tan lines half way up your arm. However Natalie wasn’t so sure about me in a vest,something to do with muscle size,so it’s time to hit the gym or stick with the tan lines!

I saw a great quote the other day “The hardest thing to say is hello for the first time and goodbye for the last” I think we all agree goodbyes are awful but hello’s can be really embarrassing if you get them wrong. The other day we met some colleagues and I gave them a really limp handshake, not intentionally, but I just knew they would have noticed!  

It’s those first impressions that count as Producer Josh found out as he greeted a girl he had only just met with a kiss on both cheeks which we reckon was a bit too full on!  Jenny in Letchworth agreed and said that only gay guys did that! Josh…anything you’re not telling us?!!

Don’t forget tomorrow morning someone is walking away with £2000 with Legoland Windsor so make sure you listen out for all the details to call in and win!

Enjoy the sun!

Stu x 

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Wednesday April 6th
Do you have the X-Cuse Factor? It seems you do! You were telling us the best excuses you’ve used to get out of something, this was after Stu and I gave our excuses and missed Producer Josh’s birthday on Saturday. I had my BF’s own birthday celebrations and Stu was visiting his Mum. Josh wasn’t impressed! So we created the ‘X-Cuse Factor’ for you and they came flooding in. Suzanne said “I had to make my excuses from my friends wedding as I had my son the day before. 3 weeks early!! I then missed their daughters christening as I had just had emergency surgery. Fortunately we are still friends but they always remind me of their important dates”.

We had several school related ones including this anonymous text from Leighton Buzzard “My worst excuse was... ok it was school, and I really didn’t want to go to RE, so I pretended I was locked in the toilet, as they tried to unscrew the lock, I realised I’d be out in no time. I had 3 boxes of nails and nail glue, and decided to glue the lock...my devious plan worked as it took 2 hours to get me out. I missed RE and French! BONUS!“. Pretty impressive but slightly extreme action to miss some lessons! Ricky in Bradfield told us how he used to get out of work by saying he dyed his hair and it all turned ginger so now he’s having to get it dyed again and also that his mobile phone needs repairing – hence not being able to call in! Surprisingly the boss wasn’t happy. We also spoke to Karen who was stood up by a date who told her his car broke down and then when he got out to fix it, his trousers caught on fire!! Needless to say she didn’t get to see his injuries! Today is apparently ‘National Tell a Lie day’ so if you do need to stretch the truth for something you have an excuse!

NOW FOR THE REALLY EXCITING NEWS….we have a new town at the top of our leader board for Big Town Show Down! Karen in Upton was amazing this morning – answering all her questions correctly in 34.2 seconds. You’ve only got a few weeks to go if you fancy your chances to enter, so what are you waiting for? Click here to get involved!

We’ll be back tomorrow asking when your first ‘hello’ has gone horribly wrong!

See you at 6am
Natalie x

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Tuesday April 5th
So everyone thinks I have dug a hole I can’t get out of! I have an allotment and am thinking of growing a bit of fruit and vegetables knowing full well I would have no time to do all the digging and stuff…but that’s what mates are for lol! In fact so far it has been rotavated by someone who lives nearby and I’ve hardly lifted a finger. result! Natalie reckons I will soon lose interest and has offered to help out! We asked you today what you’ve lost interest in and we had everything from breadmakers to marriage with a bit of cornet playing thrown in for good measure!

Tomorrow is national ‘tell a lie’ today, I am rubbish at telling lies I always go red! So tomorrow we are launching the X-cuse Factor and asking you for the most rubbish excuses - so standby to face the music and let us know in the morning! 

I am continuing my fitness drive this week and heading to the gym later but after seeing two women arguing on a running machine yesterday I have decided that the gym was the best entertainment.  Especially when one of them told the other they would smack her if she carried on so the other one tried to run away but she was on a running machine so instead she just sped it up a bit!

Have a great day and see you in the morning!

Stu x

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Monday April 4th
Morning, did you have a good Mother’s Day? Stu went to visit his mum and caught himself gossiping with her about his neighbour, but doing exactly what she does and lower his voice even though his neighbour lives in a different city. I was appalled when I pulled a box of tea out of my cupboard to find that rather than ripping the perforated lines to open it, I’d pretty much torn the box in half – which is exactly what my mum used to do to cereal boxes when we were growing up and it drove us all mad! You told us the funny things you’ve noticed like Emily in Biggleswade who is training to be a nurse, like her Mum and her Grandma and everyone she works with knows exactly who her Mum is they’re so similar - she doesn’t even have to say who she is! Gordon has a daredevil Mum who at 60 is skydiving and wing walking and trying to convince Gordon to do a bob sleigh with her. Jennie in Letchworth told us that when she was a teenager her mum used to tell her that if her dirty clothes weren’t put in the wash basket, she wouldn't wash them! Well now she tells her husband the same and she sticks by it too! Finally Jus told us when she licked her finger to wipe a dirt mark from my daughters face, she screamed & so did she, but turning into my mum is a good thing as she's fab!

We also gave the chance to win £2000 cash with Legoland Windsor. Sarah Bush in Milton Keynes managed to answer all three questions correctly and will be back on tomorrow, but if she gets any wrong, we’ll be taking on someone else. The person who gets all the questions right between now and Friday will win this amazing prize!

See you tomorrow from 6am

Natalie

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Friday April 1st
Am I less of a man because I ordered non spicy food when I was with mates whilst they did that macho thing and ate the really hot stuff? Thanks for all your support today and as most of you agreed that spicy food will exact it’s revenge in the end!

Today it turns out Natalie has one rule for herself when it comes to mobile phones and one for her boyfriend. This is after she told him to stop using the phone whilst they were eating and then took a call herself! Seems like loads of you are the same and it was a case of do as I say not as I do! Like Jen who said she won’t allow her kids chocolate in the morning despite having the odd bit herself or how about Doreen whose is happy to shave her legs in the bath but makes her husband shave in the sink…we are assuming that’s his face and not his legs!

Don’t forget it’s Mothers Day on Sunday and at 8.20 tomorrow we will have the results of our Heart Breakfast Supermum competition and some lucky mum will win a trip to Champneys in Tring!

See you in the morning!

Stu x

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Wednesday March 30th
This morning we were asking if your life is managed by post it notes, as Stuarts partner left notes for him whilst he went on holiday telling him what to wear and what to eat. My parents left me a load of notes when I went home whilst they were away – and there was so much to remember I turned everything off when I left, including the sky box, so they missed 3 weeks of Eastenders! Nick got in touch to tell us he’d filled his diesel car with unleaded petrol the other day and got into his car to find a big note from his wife saying ‘diesel’ on the dashboard!

Each morning we’re giving you the chance to win a fab prize with ZSL Whipsnade Zoo and I went for a visit yesterday. I drove around, taking in the incredible views, despite it being a bit cloudy yesterday. The giraffes came out to see me, the Lion licked his lips when I paid him a visit and I was impressed I got to see a Yak and the Asian elephant having lots of fun in the sand.

Don’t miss the show in the morning for another chance to win.

See you in the morning from 6am
Natalie x

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Tuesday March 29th
Today we compiled Heart Breakfast’s hair rules! This was after Natalie announced that no man over 40 should have long hair unless you are Jeff Bridges as he has really nice looking hair. Personally I think highlights on a guy should be banned over the age of 30 as it makes them look like they want to audition for a boyband! We had some great ones in including the guy who kept his hair short otherwise he looked a bit like an inverted monk long on top and bald around the sides.

Are really dark roots acceptable…? According to two hairdressers from Northampton roots showing through are now in for Spring/Summer but according to one of our callers it’s a big no no! I suggested she try using some talc and disguise them.    Natalie thought that might make you look a bit grey and a bit dusty like you had been sleeping under the bookshelf for the last 6 months! My favourite part of the morning was when we called a Hairdresser in Bletchley to see if they would give me a cut containing all the bad hair rules - in fact I ended up describing Peter Stringfellows cut at which point they went very quiet!  When we revealed it was us I think they were all hugely relieved that they didn’t have to add blonde hair extensions! See you in the morning!

Stu x

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Monday March 28th
What a lovely weekend it was with the sunshine, Stu jetted off to Germany and realised how poor his language skills were as all he could ask people was whether they could speak German! I took my Ma to London to see The Wizard of Oz for her birthday and for the entire show was grinning like a 5 year old. I loved the film as a kid and was just in heaven, although the monkeys were as scary as in the film. What a treat! On Saturday, after my first ever solo trip to the garden centre I returned with compost & seeds to start my herb garden and was doing my best at being green fingered making my little garden look pretty. Stuart trumped me though – he’s got an allotment, so the pair of us are going to be re-enacting The Good Life it seems. We’ll be finding out whether you’re into the old ‘grow your own’ as well. It’s the way forward!

Saturday night, the BF cooked an amazing stew (yes he’s so well trained) which we ate by candle light for Earth Hour  -always worth trying to remember to switch you lights off, to do our bit!

On the show today we were working out your birth number - a single figure digit, worked out from your date of birth that apparently tells you who you are, what you’re good at and your inborn abilities. I’m a 6 – A romantic - idealistic and need to feel useful, a loyal friend and apparently should learn to differentiate between what I can change and what I can’t, which caused great amusement in the office! Stu is a 2 – a peacemaker, a born diplomat, very intuitive and naturally shy. We were both quite impressed with how accurate these were and you were keen to find out what you were. All the explanations and the full list of numbers are here .

Make sure you’re listening tomorrow from 6am as we’re giving you the chance to win a £500 shopping spree with Thackerys on Wellingborough Road in Northampton and a year family pass, digital camera and spending money to ZSL in Whipsnade.

See you then

Natalie x

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Friday March 25th
Great fun this morning when we caught up with our Heart Breakfast McCain Family of the Month, the Hall family. They were on great form after their sporting challenge experience where they met Lynford Christie and took part in a great big assault course! The funniest moment of the morning was when mum Emma was explaining why the family decided to get involved in this challenge and she said the family had become a little sluggish, Dad Tony then jumped in and said no 'just fat' lol!! They certainly weren’t fat today, they were all at the peak of their fitness thanks to their experience as you can see from our photo!

Natalie is off to see The Wizard of Oz tonight at the Palladium so I am expecting her to return on Monday with a pair of ruby slippers having killed the Wicked Witch of the West! I am hoping this amazing weather continues into the weekend as it’ll be good to catch some rays and Nellie my dog will be happy as she is the biggest sun worshipper ever…thanks goodness dogs don’t tan or else she’d look like Donatella Versace!

Have a great weekend

Stu x

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Thursday March 24th
So on this beautiful sunny day when the first British woman to fly the world’s most advanced fighter jet in combat returns safely from her Libyan mission – we were asking you if you do a job more associated with the opposite sex and of course YOU DO!! Daisy the female firefighter in Milton Keynes was on, as was Alison the female butcher in Bedford, Sunny the male florist and Jen the female cricketer. It didn’t stop there, we had Gemma the female farrier, Maddie the Mechanic, Tom the medical secretary and Jan the only woman who drove a dustcart. All of this was after we heard Elle McPherson had hired a ‘Manny’ – a male nanny to look after her kids.

Hopefully you’ll get to enjoy some of the sunshine. Whilst you have a chance, make sure you also register for our ‘Supermum’ competition as in the run up to Mother’s Day we want to reward one Mum with a day of pampering at Champneys.

So enjoy the rays, smile at the sun to make it stay and we’ll be back tomorrow finding out your weekends in just three words.

Happy Days

Natalie x

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Wednesday March 23rd
So if you missed the show today - then the results of the driving test are Natalie unfortunately failed and I somehow managed to barely pass! It was really a nerve wracking experience especially as we both couldn’t get used to the windscreen wipers being on a different side so everytime we went to turn right we switched them on.  Very embarrassing! A big thank you to Martin at One Driving School of Motoring for being such a good sport and taking his life in his hands! Apart from me nearly turning right into a bus stop and Natalie not being able to find reverse it was quite an experience. If you want to see what happened check out this short video . You will be amused!

The weather is gorgeous today and everyone is having a bit of a spring clean at the moment. The other day I turned out the boot of my car to find a straw hat, a yoga mat and more embarrassingly some dungarees! Don’t worry I am not about to take up country dancing! You told us about the unusual stuff you uncovered in your car boot today and the most unusual thing we found was a cape made out of crisp packets! According to Katrina it was something she made earlier from Blue Peter! I think she is just trying to wind me up!

Have a great day and enjoy the sun!

Stu x

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Tuesday March 22nd
On the show today, we were finding out about your surprise flirtations after Stuart was rather taken aback at the fancy hairdressers he visited as once she’s finished his barnet, she leaned in a little too close and whispered in his hair ‘Would you like some spray’ making poor Stu jump out of his seat! I had a friendly chap called Mike being surprisingly flirty on the phone the other day whilst trying to change a booking I’d made, and it seems you have had them too. Karen’s was outside the school gates when a parent went a little too far giving her more than his business card…he asked her to marry him! Graham in Milton Keynes had a flirt with Vicky at a job interview and 14 years later they’re married! Zoe in Northampton went on a school visit to Paris about five years ago and said there was guy at the Eiffel Tower trying to sell her a mini flashing statue of the tower, when all of a sudden he said to her “Ehhh you come with me now, we get jiggy jiggy"!! Zoe said her teacher turned round and swore at the guy!! Be prepared though, you never know when it might happen. Jen was arrested and the policeman took her into a cell and then proceeded to flirt with her, she said it was a great date!

Today Stu and I are off to have a mock driving test to settle an ongoing debate we had last week. I passed second time and believe it makes you a better driver. Stu passed first time, so clearly thinks he’s better. We’re off to see Martin @ 1st Driving School in Milton Keynes and will tell you how we did tomorrow!!

Enjoy the warm weather

Natalie x

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Monday March 21st
Is it acceptable for a woman to drink pints? That was the question we asked you this morning after Natalie revealed that on St Patricks Day she ordered halves because it made her feel a little butch!  Personally I wish I could look that butch when drinking a pint lol!
  
Loads of you got in touch including beer expert and writer Melissa Cole, who said she likes nothing better than sitting down with a pint and a newspaper and went on to describe the joy of beer drinking including describing it as a 'good old fashioned vintage wine'. Natalie guessed it immediately, it was the hint of apricots that gave it away, obviously Stella! Meanwhile Sam in Hatfield thought pints looked ugly on a woman and made her daughter take one back and buy two halves instead!

Did you see the Supermoon at the weekend?  Apparently it’s the closest it has been to Earth for many years so I reckon now would be a good time to send those Astronauts? It would certainly save on the fuel bill! Here is a picture we took on Saturday night of the supermoon above my house it looks incredible and not a werewolf in sight.

Have a great day!

Stu x

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Friday March 18th
It’s been a busy week this week, with you telling us about the tricks you use to get your kids to eat their greens! Stuart hates brussel sprouts and his partner has been hiding them in his mash. Emma told us about her parents saying they were green strawberries and Alia’s mum told her the police would come and arrest her if she didn’t clear her plate! Graham told us about Iceland’s chocolate flavoured carrots that were a bit of a flop, and we also heard about your clothing malfunctions. Lara spent a whole day with her babies toothbrush down her top, Stuart admitted to dressing up as Batman whilst on Blue Peter and trying to use a pair of socks cleverly but they moved on screen and ended up by his hip!

I started my flower arranging class, which is exciting and Stu was visitng an old fashioned sweet shop and was amazed to find Sarah in Luton who at 29 still eats AND FINISHES gobstoppers! Have a look at my picture of the lovely staff at Chaul End Centre in Luton – who we visited yesterday to pick up their checque for our Have a Heart appeal. They were amazing, and held a burger eating competition amongst other things. They raised over £700! We can’t thank all of you enough for your support.

We’re back next week from 6am with another fun packed week for you… on Monday we’re talking about Women and pints…

Have a great weekend and see you Monday

Natalie x

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Thursday March 10th
So yesterday, Stu and I met with Olly Murs to find out how much he’s looking forward to performing at the Stadium MK on Friday 8th July and he can’t wait! You can hear just how much after 8am tomorrow morning. There was a bit of flirting going on along with hat trying on... we’ll explain all in the morning! I had a lovely afternoon catching up with a couple of friends. One of them being one of the (three) Brides to-be I'm a bridesmaid for! This one is the first to tie the knot and is starting to stress ever so slightly about the minor detail and I realised that me saying ‘Don’t worry it’ll all be fine on the day’ isn’t the best advice, so instead we came up with some ways to deal with the worst case scenario! I also ventured into a certain computer store named after a fruit! I’ve been meaning to sort out my little hand held music player for some time and it’s one of those things I never get round to. But I got it fixed and am now so chuffed, I’m off to the gym to work out with my own music in my ears!

Don’t forget we’ve got the last chance for you to win dough on the show tomorrow – Sawrat in Northampton won £300 this morning, just by playing our game Famous Families. We’ll be playing for the last time tomorrow at 7.35am. So waking up in time should be the ‘yeast’ of your problems (sorry).

See you tomorrow from 6am!

Natalie x

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Tuesday March 8th
If a strange man suddenly comes up to you and plants a smacker on you today then you have us to thank! It’s International Women’s day and we said show the ladies how much you care by giving them a kiss! Make sure though that it’s a decent kiss because as Natalie said "a bad kiss can be a dealbreaker as far as a new relationship is concerned"! This morning we asked how important is a good kiss and many of you thought it was much underestimated, especially a good old snog! In fact Sam came onto the show to say she really missed a proper full on passionate kiss so we set her a little challenge to see if she could spice things up a bit tonight with her husband. Make sure you listen in the morning to see how she got on!
It’s Pancake day today and it always reminds me of being a Blue Peter presenter because they always made one of us cook them live on TV and then try and toss them! Usually this ended in disaster - you might remember the famous clip of Yvette Fielding where it all went hideously wrong and it ended up looking like a soggy dishcloth! Luckily this year I shall be asking someone to make them for me I think!

Enjoy your pancakes be they sweet or savoury!

See you in the morning x

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Monday March 7th
It’s official Buggy envy is sweeping the nation and now a Swansea dad has pimped his son’s buggy! It seems Dad’s are taking more of an interest in how a buggy looks, rather than just how much it costs. We asked you this morning to big up your buggies from the Rolls Royce of buggies to the brightly coloured and accessorized ones - there were even buggy status updates on facebook. That’s how serious it is. Then we had the honest call from Kelly who admitted she had a budget buggy and when she got to test drive her friends supreme one, which had cost £1,000 she loved it but still told her mate she thought it was naff! 

As it was such a nice day yesterday, I’d conducted some research on buggies, strolling round Verulamium Park in St Albans. I was whispering to the BF – which one was fancy and which was budget – so apologies if you were in the park and saw a couple whispering and pointing at your buggy. No offence meant! A pub lunch followed, with the most delicious desert – well it was a Sunday after all. Earl Grey Tea custard tart… mmm! Back to the gym today, as it’s 3 weeks till my first bridesmaid dress fitting, first of three... so head down and focus. Official bridesmaid bootcamp begins!

Tomorrow on the show we need your help as we’re asking ‘how important is a kiss’

MWAH!

Natalie x

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Friday 4th March
It’s Have a Heart Appeal week and we rounded it off here on Heart Breakfast with an amazing Appeal Day auction item of a British Grand Prix experience at Silverstone. That’s all 3 days plus backstage passes too! Another really exciting morning of bidding saw Kim from Milton Keynes grab this prize in a last minute bidding frenzy for an amazing £2550. It was so exciting and we didn’t know who had secured it right up until the last minute! We are so thrilled for Kim who as yet hasn’t decided who she will take with her but we are hoping when she goes backstage she is close enough to the winner to get sprayed with at least a little of the champers!  

Natalie and I are off to our final Quiz for Kids tonight, it’s just like a pub quiz we’ll be at the Watt Arms in Hanslope from 7.30 for an 8pm start. It’s Friday why not come down and take part? You’ll be helping us raise loads of money for Children’s Hospices UK.

A BIG thank you to everyone who has helped us out this week and we can’t wait to find out the grand total! Stay tuned all day as there will be more amazing auction lots - including a very special one later on Heart Drivetime with Matt Jarvis. There will be celebs dropping by all day and if you fancy making a donation of any amount, you can do so here .

Finally, make sure you listen on Monday as we have loads of 'dough' to give away thanks to Warburtons.

Have a great weekend!

Stu x

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Thursday 3rd March
It’s been an AMAZING week so far for our Have a Heart appeal and you have been SO generous. Today, Anne in Dunstable bid £650 for a place on 5 one day Novelli Academy cooking courses thanks to Jean Christophe Novelli. They are from his Mediterranean themed classes so she’ll be learning to cook dishes from France, Spain, Italy, Greece and Morocco and will be a whizz in the kitchen! Thanks Anne.

Last night Stuart and I were at The Swan in Markyate taking part in another of our Quizzes for Kids to raise more pennies. I let Stuart go on the team with the local pub quiz winners as I’d won the night before at The Prince of Wales in Kettering. He won… bah! So it’s one a piece. BUT the challenge continues as tonight we’re at The Dove in Newport Pagnell and it would be great if you could join us and take part in some quiz action.

If you’ve yet to get involved, do check out all our fundraising ideas here . Something fun to do tomorrow is Dress Red – just get your work colleagues to all dress up in red and pay £1 and you’ll look great and be raising funds for Children Hospices UK. We’re helping out Keech Hospice Care in Luton, Ian Rennie at Home in Tring and Rainbows for North Northamptonshire. You’ve done yourselves proud. A huge thank you from the bottom of our Hearts.

It doesn’t stop there though as tomorrow on Heart Breakfast you could bid to win an amazing Silverstone package. You could be at all three days of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone – plus go backstage at the after-race Grand Prix Party where you could meet the drivers. There’s more fab stuff going on throughout the day including celebs dropping in to help out such as Stephen Merchant, Olly Murs and Matt Cardle to name a few. 

Thanks again for getting involved. If we don’t see you at The Dove tonight, we’ll see you tomorrow from 6am

Nat xx

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Wednesday 2nd March
Wow!!!! What an exciting morning of bidding on our Have a Heart auction. Gary from Kimbolton has a very excited and happy daughter right now, as he bid an incredible £2,151 to secure an amazing chance to meet Olly Murs and JLS backstage when they play their Stadium MK gig on July 8. Becky screamed for us and so did we after the battle commenced to try and secure this auction item! Commiserations to Karen in Haynes who came so close and also bid an impressive £2000. Thanks so much for your generosity and don’t forget your donations go towards helping seriously ill children and their families and the work of Children’s Hospices UK. We have more exciting auction items tomorrow plus if you are in the Markyate area tonight why not pop down and see us for the second of our 'Quiz for kids' nights at The Swan pub! It’s just like a pub quiz and we have drivetime’s Matt Jarvis asking the questions. I am off to brush up on my general knowledge as Natalie’s team beat me last night so fingers crossed I do better tonight!

See you in the morning!

Stu x

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Tuesday 1st March
So, I’m back from LA. It was lots of fun, I got to stay with my family who were the best tour guides and I confused them all by spending one morning walking down Sunset Boulevard to the Walk of Fame - which was a good few miles. People in LA don’t walk, if you’ve been you’ll know there are SOOO many cars on the road, so I looked like an oddball but loved it. Hollywood Boulevard was a hive of activity as they were building everything for the Oscars (I took a pic!). I almost got to go to a pre-Oscar party but it didn’t quite happen. I managed to shop though and had promised Stuart I’d get him the most useless piece of tat I could find so I brought him back a fake Lady GaGa drivers license and a box of ‘Bag Balm’ which is udder cream! It's to help when they’re sore! Incredibly Rob got in touch and told us it’s great for sunburn? We had Karen tell us her hubby bought her a chocolate Cornish pasty and Marie bought back a load of straw donkeys from Spain, filled with 3” tacks, so they were pretty lethal!

Thanks to Maggie in MK who bidg £330 in our Have a Heart Appeal, to win an experience to be a zoo keeper at Woburn Safari Park! We’ll have another fab lot tomorrow, so do make sure you’re listening. We’ll also be finding out about the hobbies you used to have a kid that you wished you’d never given up! Whilst in LA I had a night out at an exclusive LA club called The Magic Castle where magicians do all sorts of clever stuff... made me think of Stuart as he used to be into his magic and has even said he’s tempted to pick itup again. I’ve been dusting off my trumpet as I used to be pretty good and I’d like to see whether I can find a brass band to tootle with!

We’ll be back with you in the morning from 6am

See you then
Natalie x

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 Monday February 28th

We’re back and it’s Have a Heart appeal week! 

We have so much going on including our Quiz for Kids (a bit like a pub quiz really!!). Tomorrow night is our first and we will be at The Prince of Wales, High st, Woodford in Kettering. So why not pop down and see us if you are in the area and click here  for details of all the other ‘Quiz for Kids’ locations! Matt Jarvis will be hosting and there will be a team Natalie and a team Stuart and I am hoping for a few team Stuart banners. A bit like the banners you see people wave in the audience on Dancing on Ice lol!

In the morning we have the first of our on-air auctions with some incredible money can’t buy auction items for you to bid on, including later this week a pair of 3 grandstand tickets to the British Grand Prix at Silverstone with a pair of backstage passes! Listen out all week for the very exciting auction lots available and info on when you need to ring!

We are back tomorrow  with Natalie fresh from her trip to LA! I hope she is clutching an Oscar, even if it is for a lifetime of achievement in unusual teabags!

See you in the morning.

Stu x

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Friday February 18th
So it’s the weekend and I am off to celebrate my birthday! Just something low key, as I am at an age where you start adding the two numbers together just so you feel a bit younger!!

This morning we had JLS on the show and they were on great form promising a few surprises at their Stadium MK gig with Olly Murs on July 8!  We had loads of you get in touch this morning all really excited about this gig and well done on securing your tickets nice and early, here is the link for those of you who havent got your yet just click here .  Natalie and I can’t wait to host it and it will be amazing to step out in front of that many people. Hope we don’t trip over on the stage!
We are both off on holiday next week and I am celebrating my birthday on Sunday so hope to make the celebrations last a whole week. Natalie is off to Los Angeles so I am hoping she can land herself on a red carpet or two!

Have a great week and make sure you listen to Matt Jarvis on Monday morning!
See you on February 28th!
Stu x

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Wednesday February 16th
Morning,
Hope you’re well. So on the show yesterday, we were asking What don’t your parents know about you after I’d found it rather funny that my BF had managed to hide his tattoo’s from his father for the last 15 years, but they’ve just been away together and after sharing a sauna, his Dad found out! I used to go out partying when I was a teenage under the premise of being at a friends house and one time my mother was calling the friends house as I’d not packed the hot chicken she’d got from the supermarket for dinner, as I was rushing her to drop me at my mate’s so we made the bus into town!

Stuart claimed to be a poor liar and couldn’t remember anything, so we opened it up to you. A lot of people still hiding their tattoo’s including Tracey who is 42 and her Mum still doesn’t know she has a tat on her back! You also told us some of your naughties including someone who withheld their name saying, “I’ve just remembered me and a girlfriend were 17 and met these older guys about 25ish and we went to Sheffield to watch the Cobblers Vs Sheffield united! But our parents thought we were having an Italian meal in Northampton! We had to lie about how bad the food was. I like this one from another anonymous texter who told her mum she was going to Thorpe Park with friend and her family but actually went to Dover to meet some boys with her and turned her phone off for the whole weekend !! Shocking behaviour!

   Today we worked out that glasses officially mae you more attractive, if you want to know more about this check out our facebook page and if you’ve been putting off having an eye test for this very reason as you don’t want to wear them.. whaddya waiting for!

We’re back in the morning from 6am –with a huge announcement about JLS & Olly Murs just after 8am so don’t miss that!
Have a good day
Natalie x

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Monday February 14th

To voucher or not to voucher that is the question? We had a little dilemma on our hands this morning would you use a voucher to pay for your Valentines meal? Personally I wouldn’t after my embarrassing moment in a restaurant on Friday night. The thing is do you present the voucher on your way in and risk the cheap seats or do you risk humiliation when paying the bill and the voucher is rejected in front of the entire restaurant! Well it seems there are loads of you who think it’s ok to use a voucher on Valentines especially Dawn who said use the voucher and eat twice as much! Love it!

Love to hear about whether you had any Valentine surprises on the show in the morning don’t forget you can get in touch by clicking on the link on the Breakfast pages

I hope you have a lovely evening and that the 3 little words you hear tonight aren’t ‘not tonight dear!’  
See you in the morning
Stu x

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Friday February 11th
So this week I learnt just how tall Prince William is... If you’ve been listening to the show you’ll know I’m just a little obsessed with the Royal Wedding! Well whilst in London on Wednesday, I went to the Stephen Friedman and had my piccie taken with Wills. Check it out above! Wedding fever is rife in my world, as I’ve now had wedding invite number two from the THREE weddings I’m a bridesmaid at. It’s very surreal that three of my closest friends are all getting married one after the other… talk about when it rains it pours...and all of the Brides and their wedding’s are so different too. I can’t wait! The funniest thing was last night when I opened the invite and thought – aah another dress to buy and then a second later realised I’m a bridesmaid so don’t have to decide what to wear… hoorah! I do still feel like I’m in 27 Dresses. I’ve been fitted for one dress and have been given the second, so it’s just this wedding I’m waiting for... colour scheme’s have been discussed so it’s all go... and it’s only February! Don’t forget to check out the details of the Heart wedding show here if you're a bride to be!

Bye for now, from your unofficial bridesmaid Natalie xx

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Thursday February 10th
Today we discovered Nurse Natalie! Even as I type this Natalie is heading out to find a Nurse’s outfit to surprise her boyfriend who is currently in hospital! Her dilemma is just how far should she go? Do you go a little bit “Carry On” Barbara Windsor style? Or something a bit more “ooooh Matron”? After being concerned about what the other nurses in the hospital would make of it, Natalie was relieved to get a call from Nurse Jane who thought it was a really funny idea! My only concern is what if a patient suddenly calls her over to sort out their bed pan…

Make sure you check the blog and listen to the show tomorrow so you can hear me wind her up about it all, and more importantly find out the results!

Nat will be getting her own back though…since enough of you downloaded fundraising packs for our Have a Heart Appeal; I will be doing the show tomorrow – dressed as Natalie! We’ll be offering up more reasons to download packs over the next week or so – including pimping out Matt Jarvis to your workplace!

If you haven’t downloaded a pack already – you can do so here .

See you in the morning!

Stu x

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Wednesday February 9th
SAT NAV has got me lost too many times and I was keen to know whether you’ve had the same problem? You rely on that little talking box to get you ‘to your destination’ as it’s easier than having to keep looking at a map - but there seems to be quite a few glitches in the system! Here’s when technology had let you down! Jacquie said ‘don’t lend your daughter your sat nav. Mine changed the settings to go through toll roads - cost me a fortune and I had to check the car for change!’ Anne in Bedford told us about a bloke driving on the moors in her home town (up north); he followed his sat nav to the middle of nowhere & almost went over the edge of a hill, look at this !! Ellen Mooney said her sat nav tried to get her to travel from Southend to Dunstable via Stevenage! Then Yarmouth to Dunstable - via Peterborough. She turned it off in the end!  Whilst this was all good therapy for me as I’d been feeling like I was alone with my sat nav issue, it did seem like it was mostly us ladies having issues. Then Peter got in touch and said ‘my sat nav once took me the wrong way around a roundabout and tried to take me up the entry slip of a motorway. I'd got it in pedestrian mode!’

So I’m going to keep my sat nav, but turn on the sound (it’s on mute as it annoys me) and have a map as a back up! We’ll see if that helps me out.

On the show tomorrow we’re finding out when ‘budget has gone bad’. Tell us when you tried to save money - but it back fired!

See you in the morning from 6am

Natalie x

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Tuesday February 8th
Natalie got a bit hot under the collar today all thanks to Stevenage’s finest export Ed Westwick.  If you’re a fan of Gossip Girl you will know exactly who I mean and if not then here is a picture to show you what all the fuss is about! I had a small clip of him in character as Chuck Bass today and Natalie went all unnecessary! I am thinking of keeping it in the studio permanently and playing it in at random moments just top try and distract her lol! 

We’re all still trying to work out which shopping centre Lisa the 'knicker flasher' went around showing off her big old granny pants in - she told us when we talked about the places you are too ashamed to show your face in, (after my dog left a little present in a 5 star hotel!) she says she is from Luton so maybe the Mall?

Speaking of putting on our detective hats, we are desperate to track down Super Gran from Northampton, the woman who single handedly foiled a group of burglars trying to break into a town centre jewellers! Just a few large clouts from her handbag and they went running! Make sure you are listening tomorrow as we start to try and track her down and if you want to a closer look check out the amazing video here .

See you in the morning

Stu x

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Monday February 7th
This weekend, I managed to get lost on my sat nav - twice! Now my sense of direction isn’t great at the best of times, but now I have a sat nav’d up car - I’m supposed to be fearless.

I went to stay with my sister on Friday - and on Saturday morning I offered to take my 10 year old niece to her Stagecoach lesson so my sister could chill. Little did I know that the 10 minute journey would throw me into a panic as the sat nav got me lost!! Aaah! My niece came to my rescue informing me that she herself had got lost on her bike in the neighbourhood and directed me out of what could have been a very embarrassing situation! I insisted she told them at the class that it was my fault (of course she enjoyed that) and I then proceeded to get lost AGAIN on my journey home. When she returned later (her Daddy picked her up) she bounded into the kitchen with a script, informing my sister and I that she was going to be performing in The Lion King as a lioness, and it was down to my sister to make the costume… MAKE A LIONESS COSTUME!

I remember having to do a birdie dance in a ballet class and my mum managed a brilliant outfit where I had a ‘beak’ hat, but a LIONESS! I saw my sister’s face go white. Have you had to use your sewing machine for your kid’s activities? Are you a dab hand at making outfits? Do feel free to tell us how great you are at making ‘stuff’ on our facebook page here .

We’ll be back tomorrow seeing where you ‘won’t be showing your face again’ after embarrassing yourself :) Right now we’re off to interview Matt Willis who is the leading man in Footloose at the MK Theatre. He’ll be on the show on Wednesday!

Have a good day.
Natalie x

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Friday 4th February
So what are you up to this weekend we asked in just 3 words? Carol is going burlesque dancing. Yes she’ll be squeezing into her steel boned corset this weekend, you go Carol and we have nick named you Carol von Tease!! Natalie is cycling loads at the moment but having seen her on a bike the only thing I can compare it to is the witch in the ‘Wizard of Oz’ when she cycles through the skies! Now she isn’t green, but she has her head down and is cycling manically as I have witnessed when she cycled past me once and didn’t even realise it was me! If you are in her path she just pings her bell so if you spot anyone fitting that description manically cycling along it will be our Natalie - so give her a wave and shout ‘Its curls on wheels!’

Time for me to ‘get on my bike’ and enjoy the weekend, think I may have a bit of an ebay moment this weekend and be like one of those cash in the attic people hoping something will turn out to be really valuable but in the end it’s only worth 50p!

Have a great weekend and see you Monday!

Stu x

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Thursday 3rd February
This morning Stuart’s Diva dog Nellie got her own facebook page, it was only right as she now has a diamante collar (see pic) and is bathed in Aveda. You can become a fan of Nellie’s page here . We were finding out about your pampered pets and I’m amazed at how spoilt they are and also the number of pets with facebook pages! Here’s what you told us: Anita said ‘We have two Jack Russell’s. Each morning they have porridge, toast and tea. At lunch time they have cake and for dinner they have a mini version of our meal. Then its warm milk and biscuits at bed time!’ Coral told us her spaniel has a rinse in a warm shower daily and jumps out onto warm Egyptian cotton towels tumble dried with Lenor sheets to be lovely and soft. Then there’s Claire who said ‘We have two chickens which are very pampered by my husband, he calls them his girls. I have to cook rice & pasta especially for them and my hubby makes toast for them daily - I buy seedy bread especially for them!’

I am amazed but not surprised. Let’s keep loving our pets! Send us pictures on facebook, don’t forget to befriend Nellie and make her feel loved. There’s going to be a lot more coming from her, you’d be surprised what she gets up to!

Don’t miss the show tomorrow; it’s the last chance to win Brit tickets. We’ll be back from 6am make sure you join us.
 
Natalie x

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Wednesday 2nd February
Fancy a bit of trumpeting? Well Natalie dusted down hers last night and is determined to give it a go again!  I will keep you updated but promise she won't start trumpeting the travel news just yet! I have started swimming again, not in speedos you’ll be glad to hear but maybe I should start? I always seem to get stuck behind the really slow swimmer and I wonder if it’s because I don’t look serious enough. Maybe a pair of speedos and some goggles might do the trick? As long as they aren't white and don't go see through like the last pair I will be fine! 

Producer Josh is currently on a marriage preparation course but we reckon our listeners could come up with something much better than the advice on his course and we were right! Great ideas such as the answer to everything is ‘Yes Dear’ or as Natalie’s mum suggested always have a treat handy to keep him happy like a piece of chocolate, as long as it doesn’t break his gold filling!

We’re talking pampered pets tomorrow so I am dressing Nellie my Bulldog in her best Diamonte collar for a photo session later! 

See you in the morning

Stu x

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Tuesday 1st February
So we made it through Jan and February is now upon us, the month of pancakes and of course - Valentines Day. Now I’m a fan, I remember for years my older brother used to send me Valentines cards (he’s 7 years older) but then when he got to about 18 and I think had a more serious girlfriend he stopped... and I was a bit gutted. Then there was the time at school when this boy who liked me sent a rose to me – I wasn’t keen and there was also the fact that everyone seemed to know about it and took the mickey. Today we asked you whether you think Valentines Day is a cliché and almost everyone said yes, that it’s over priced and a waste of money. Jon in Luton told us how he’s a waiter and is working Valentines, and in the past has seen marriage proposals where the woman has stormed out! Also the strange table of three that he didn’t know what to think about!! Jeff in Kensworth said he can’t win on Valentines as his wife is a florist so he can’t order flowers from her and gets into trouble if he goes elsewhere…

Personally I like the 14th, as I think it’s a good prompt. Whilst I’m all for spontaneous romance, sometimes people need a little push to show their feelings, especially when it’s a new relationship and maybe you’ve been a bit cautious… then you can continue to shower your partner with love and affection all year round!

On the show tomorrow - with the news that our producer Josh is attending a marriage prep course for his upcoming nuptials in May - we want to know what you think should be on the Marriage course curriculum! 

See you in the morning from 6am

Natalie x

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Friday 28th January
Wooohooo it’s the last Friday of January!! We made it through till payday and asked you what you were upto this weekend, in just 3 words! Natalie is off to stalk Johnny Depp after I failed when we both visited a pub he regularly frequents. She told me to go dressed as a pirate of the Carribean next time! Meanwhile I think we had our most bizarre 3 word weekend ever from Susan who is going to be cleaning out her 64 rats - now personally I can’t stand rats, I think it’s something to do with their tail? So that would be my idea of hell but Susan seems to love them. I think we’ll nickname her ratwoman!  

We had great fun meeting our Heart breakfast McCain family of the month the Popplewells this morning and hearing all about their adventures! Seems they have picked up some mean dance moves after their lesson with Arlene Phillips. Don’t forget if you would like to be our next Heart Breakfast McCain family of the month then just click here for all the details!

Have an amazing weekend whatever you are up to, I am off to Wales shortly to chill out for the weekend in Snowdonia so if I don’t get stuck up a mountain see you Monday when you wake up!

Stu x

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Thursday 27th January
Yesterday I went to see Black Swan the new movie with Natalie Portman. It was an incredible watch, very dark but she was remarkable and oooh so skinny! I’d decided to have some pick and mix (which I never do) and then questioned my sanity of watching a ballet movie whilst having a sugar fix! What made me chuckle was that it was quite busy and you know how you get an allocated seat these days, well I don’t really think people sit where they’re meant to. Someone was definitely in my seat leaving me to sit in one of the posher ones with loads of leg room – not complaining. But there was a bit of scuffling as people who I think had chanced it in the hope they wouldn’t get found out for not being in their allocated seat had to move, yet still tutting loudly! Aren’t we funny. On Tuesday night I went to the MK Theatre with my flatmate to see Chess. This is a brilliant production – directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood. I’d not seen it before so had nothing to compare it too, but could definitely see his influence – daaaaahling! The master of ceremonies for the Chess game had the most delicious six pack and played the trumpet – one of my favourite instruments.

If you get a chance to go, do and don’t forget that we’ve got our last family pass of Footloose the musical tickets which is on at the MK Theatre from 7th Feb with former Busted star Matt Willis as Kevin Bacon’s role. 

Have a super duper day – look out for the scattering of snow and see you in the morning

Natalie x

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Wednesday 26th January
Is there such a thing as an ugly baby? If you are going to be kind then you might say quirky looking or 'interesting' or as Kylie who phoned us up this morning told us, it’s all about survival and every baby is gorgeous! Despite this she did see a baby that looked like an Australian lizard and kept poking its tongue out, but she managed to keep her thoughts to herself! I was an ugly fat baby but they say the ugliest babies turn out to be the best so I wonder what went wrong? Anna from Northampton called us up to say that she felt that there were two types of baby, cosmetic and character! The cosmetic babies are the traditionally good looking ones and the character ones are the rest lol!!  So which were you? Here is a picture of Natalie as a baby so you can make up your mind which she was? I would say cosmetic with characterful overtones! How is that for sitting on the fence?!

See you in the morning

Stu x

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Tuesday 25th January
We had a right trip down memory lane today, after I’d found some old letters from a pen pal from my PGL holiday!! He was called William and went to Eton, and had letters after his name and everything... sadly they weren’t HRH or who knows I could have been Queen! Got us thinking about how kids today probably won’t have pen pals for much longer, as they don’t write letters now - it’s all emails and Skype! Shame, as how much fun was it getting random pictures of people you’d never met when they were set up through your school... and then the day came where you did meet! 

You gave us some great suggestions for the things that kids today won’t get to enjoy such as watching the test card on the TV before the programmes came back on, or what about learning the lyrics for your fave songs from Smash Hits so you could sing along to Top of the Pops. Click here for some of our favourites!

Now you may be amazed at just how quickly your kids are growing up, especially Dads and their daughters and we’ve had a request from a Channel 4 production company who make 'The Family’ and ‘One Born Every Minute’. They want to hear from fathers and teenage daughters to appear in a new series that will explore and help tackle Father/Daughter relationship difficulties. If this is something you would like to get involved in, then please get in contact by emailing maria.banobre@dragonfly.tv - any communication will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence and they are keen to hear from people this week, so if you’re interested do get in touch!

We’ll be back in the morning finding out the most unusual things you’ve bought online, after Paul Daniels started selling his wigs online!

Have a great day and see you from 6am

Natalie x

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Monday 24th January
Whatever you do this week try not to embarrass yourself at work! It really is the worse kind of humiliation especially if you are an MP who happens to wear a musical tie in the House of Commons! We loved this clip so much check it out here on our facebook page. You got in touch with your amazing stories including one woman, who we will call Isabel, as she managed to catch her boss in the female toilet with a colleague and then emailed the company about it including her actual boss…whoops! That ‘reply all’ is the bane of our lives! I remember when I was working in local news and I was in the office on a Saturday morning feeling the bit worse for wear after a big party the night before.  Unfortunately everytime I stood up I felt really sick so as no one was around I decided to crawl around the office on all fours.  What I didn’t realise was my boss arrived to pick up the company car and walked in to find me on the office floor on all fours with a pile of scripts between my teeth lol!! Not my finest hour!

Have a great Monday - and don’t embarrass yourself!

Stu x

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Friday January 21st

My favourite telly viewing this week started with My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding after my boss had watched and claimed it was his favourite TV moment of the year (yes I know it’s the 21st Jan – but a man claiming that about a wedding programme is worth a view). So I watched it and eight minutes in was hooked. Traveller girls dream of their wedding day from a very young age and in true Jordan style have HUGE dresses, which weigh a ton on their big day! It was a fascinating watch, highlighting their very strong morals. Another sensational piece of viewing although I didn’t make it to the end was Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents about two groups of lads on their first holiday with their mates. They’re in Aiya Napa so you can imagine the scene… but imagine their surprise when their parents turn up, and they’ve been spying on the boy’s antics which weren’t pretty - worth a giggle! Do you remember your first holiday without your parents? What did you get up to? Let us know on our facebook page here. I did something that my parents really weren’t impressed with on my first holiday away - it involved a crane! I’ll tell you next week!!

So we’ve made it to Friday thanks for all your 3 word weekends, especially Tommy in Stevenage. His was ‘wedding planning headache’. He’s getting married on April 1st (yes really) and is slightly worried about the lack of preparations - we may have scared him saying she may not turn up as the ultimate April fool! I’m off to the Derngate Theatre in Northampton tonight to watch some comedy and Stu’s off to heckle his local pub singer. Whatever you’re up to - enjoy.

We’ll be back Monday giving you the chance to win £250 worth of shopping vouchers thanks to McCain.

Have a fab weekend
Natalie x

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Thursday January 20th
It was all about the online dating today good experiences and bad. Natalie met a guy once online and when they met up for the first time he presented her with a box of chocolates that had her face on the box! Suffice to say - there wasn’t a second date. Personally I don’t trust online profiles as you never know what they REALLY look like or whether they have made up their interests to make them sound more interesting! Sounds like you have had your fair share of hilarious online dating experiences.  Here are a few of our favourites from this mornings show!

This from Flo

My first online date turned out to be my ex-husbands best friend from when they were at school and all he wanted to do was talk about him! Needless to say I didn't see him again.

Here’s another from Anon!

I have a profile online and I've met Mr Married, Mr Serial Dater, Mr Bodybuilder (don't I look good), Mr I Haven't Got Over My Ex, Mr Foot Fetish.... makes you wonder if there are any real men left! Sounds like she hasn’t had much luck!

On a happy note Natalie actually met her current partner online dating so it just goes to show you it CAN work! If you missed our relationship expert check out some of her tips here .

Happy dating and see you in the morning!

Stu x

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Wednesday January 19th
So, as I’m still a relative newbie in Hertfordshire I’ve become a member of 'moretolifethanshoes' - a very handy group where us ladies can get together and share ideas, skills, give encouragement, that kind of thing. There’s such a mad group of people including an inventor, a florist, a woman running a construction company and a lingerie buyer so you can imagine the variety! We were all chattering away, getting to know what each other did and I met a lady who specialises in NLP and Hypnotherapy and decided that 2011 is gonna be the year where I quit smoking! There I’ve written it and I have to do it. It’s not like I smoke all that often but I’d like to be rid of it. So I’ll keep you posted as I’m going to see whether this lady can help me.

Tomorrow on the show we’re finding out your online dating tales – I met my fella online and think you should definitely give it a go if you’re single. It can be a bit of a mission getting yourself set up, but it’s fun and you can enjoy the dating lark, pretend your in Sex in the City! We’ll hear about your tales in the morning and we’ve got our relationship expert Susan Quilliam on hand to tell us the do’s and don’ts.

See you in the morning from 6

Natalie x

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Tuesday January 18th
Today it was all about the position you sleep in and what it reveals about you and if you missed out here is the list below! 

·  The Foetus: Those who curl up in the foetus position are described as tough on the outside but sensitive at heart. They may be shy when they first meet somebody, but soon relax. This is the most common sleeping position, adopted by 41% of the 1,000 people who took part in the survey. More than twice as many women as men tend to adopt this position.

·  Log (15%): Lying on your side with both arms down by your side. These sleepers are easy going, social people who like being part of the in-crowd, and who are trusting of strangers. However, they may be gullible.

·  The Yearner (13%): People who sleep on their side with both arms out in front are said to have an open nature, but can be suspicious, cynical. They are slow to make up their minds, but once they have taken a decision, they are unlikely ever to change it.

·  Soldier (8%): Lying on your back with both arms pinned to your sides. People who sleep in this position are generally quiet and reserved. They don't like a fuss, but set themselves and others high standards.

·  Freefall (7%): Lying on your front with your hands around the pillow, and your head turned to one side. Often gregarious and brash people, but can be nervy and thin-skinned underneath, and don't like criticism, or extreme situations.

·  Starfish (5%): Lying on your back with both arms up around the pillow. These sleepers make good friends because they are always ready to listen to others, and offer help when needed. They generally don't like to be the centre of attention.

So I am the Foetus and Natalie is the Starfish! Thanks for all your calls today we found loads of you sleeping in some very odd positions so we ended up making some up - including the Dribbler and the Wriggler!

Sleep well try not to dribble or wiggle and  and see you in the morning!

Stu x 

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Monday January 17th
I'm nesting… I’ve not really done this before, as I normally move in and out of a place within 6 months! On Friday afternoon I had a leisurely stroll around IKEA in Milton Keynes and was amazed, not only by how quiet it was (perfect time to go!) but actually how much I enjoyed it - and yes I did buy candles! That evening I was out in the Hub in MK and I spotted the best cut price Michael Buble at the bar – but he was doing shots! Not very Buble really... My weekend was spent putting my possessions into my new handy Swedish style boxes, and eating some delicious home cooked food. The BF and I ‘share’ the cooking in my house. At his, I’m not allowed to lift a finger - can’t complain though can I?   
 Sunday was a visit to an awesome vintage shop in St Albans, where I spied the most amazing 1950’s dressing table... sadly it won’t fit in my bedroom, but I’ve definitely found my new favourite place and I bought myself this amazing jewellery box (see pic!). Have you ever been somewhere and seen something you want to buy, but someone else is in the way? Well when I spied this gorgeous item and knew I wanted it, there was a girl examining it, so I was hanging around waiting for her to move on! She so knew I was there and I’m sure drew out her browsing, just to wind me up. As soon as she walked off, I swooped in and claimed my victory. What fun I had laying out my necklaces in the draws and placing my rings in the little ring drawer. It’s official - I am easily pleased!

In the morning we’re finding out what your sleep position says about you, so let us know how you sleep and we’ll see if we’re right!

See you from 6am

Natalie

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Friday January 14th
It’s Friday and we made it through the first full week of January, so what are you doing to recover? Seems like loads of you are taking the opportunity to really chill out this weekend after a frantic start to the month plus - we are all broke aren’t we?   Despite this we had loads of great 3 word weekends come in including Julie from Markyate who is celebrating her New Years Eve this weekend as she was ill over New Year - full on party poppers, Auld Lang Syne, the lot! We thought Panto season was over but apparently there is an adult panto going on this weekend according to Michael whose 3 word weekend was ‘Alice in Wonderbra’  Sounds interesting, there were other characters in it - but none we could actually broadcast!

Its going to be a bit of a second Christmas for me this weekend as I am going to have loads of stuff delivered to my new place that has been in storage for over a year! Most of it I think I have forgotten I even had, so it will be either a case of why did I keep that or I never knew I had one of those already - why did I go out and spend a fortune on it!

So it’s Happy Christmas from me and a Happy New Year from Julie in Markyate!

Have a great weekend!

See you Monday!

Stu x

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Thursday January 13th
Last night I did one of the most tedious things ever, soaked my lovely gel nail polish off using acetone. Now I know why I’m relatively low maintenance - the after care and I don’t get on! Still, I did it and then had numb fingers for the next 10 minutes! On the show today you were telling us about your botch jobs after Producer Josh turned up at work with cardboard and tape on his car window, which keep falling down. You can’t beat a bit of tape to help you out of a pickle though can you? I’d been to see a friend on my bike and forgotten my lights for the front, so we taped a torch to the front of the handlebars. Worked a treat! Poppy in Luton made us laugh as her hubby failed to put up the curtain rail she’d asked him too – as he used glue rather than screws, so she dialled ‘Rent a Hubby’! Dave in Letchworth confessed to using tin foil to repair a fuse and keeping it a secret from his wife! Let’s hope she doesn’t find out...

I had a little sob at a movie yesterday, after seeing The Colour Purple at The Alban Arena in St Albans (they’re showing a load of retro films). It was great to see a classic film on the big screen, if you could pick any film to show, from any decade, what would you go for? Stu would love ET and I’d go for Gremlins!

Tomorrow, we want to know your weekend in just 3 words, so go to our facebook page here and let us know.

Enjoy your day

Natalie x

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Wednesday January 12th

OMG Natalie has allowed a backseat driver to take control of her driving!

Well OK it’s her boyfriend but that normally makes it worse!  We asked you today about whether your partner was a back seat driver and we had some great stories!  One of our favourites was from Jo in Leighton whose partner drove her mad with his over cautious driving.  He always drove so slowly until one day she actually snapped and told him to stop and let her take over the driving.  She stepped out of the car and into the driving seat and instead of putting the car into drive she put it into reverse and drove straight into a wall!  Slightly embarrassing!

We had great fun today coming up with your Bond girl names as the next Bond movie goes into production!  Check out some great ideas on our facebook page .  It’s simple you take your pets first name and your mothers maiden name which makes mine Dusty Wylie!  She would be a secretary who undid her jacket and assassinated people using her bra filled with a machine gun lol!

See you in the morning

Stu x

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Monday January 10th
So my first weekend on the detox… and I kinda fell off the wagon. No alcohol passed my lips but half a tandori chicken and some chana masala did! That and a little piece of cake at my BF’s grandpa’s 82nd birthday party, but then I couldn’t look rude in front of him could I? So, despite being mocked for my poor effort over the weekend, I’m back on it. Determined not to have a tipple until two weekend’s time when I have a friend coming to see me who will insist. It’s a case of not wanting to offend whilst I’m trying to cleanse, so I’ve decided I’m on a ‘Diplomatic Detox’!

Stu’s month of indulgence continued today as Hannah in Luton won flights, accommodation and spending money for a fab trip to Tenerife with Monarch. I remember going there one year for New Year’s Eve when I was about 11 and getting sizzled on champagne sorbet as my parents didn’t see me eating it! There is another chance for you to win tomorrow by playing our Getaway Gamble at 8:05.

With the exciting news that the Beckham’s are expecting baby No.4 we were speculating on if it were to be a ‘pink one’ - as we know Victoria would love one - what would the baby be called? Now, we know the Beckham’s like to note where the conception happened, and we also know Victoria’s been in Paris quite a lot for her fashion label… BUT we heard they were at the snow dome in Hemel Hempstead over Xmas, so what do you think of ‘HemelBecks’ – got a bit of a ring to it wouldn’t you say? Ha! Have a good day, especially if it’s your first full week back. Don’t forget you can also follow us both on Twitter @NatalieB77 and @Stuart_Miles.

See you in the morning from 6am
Natalie x

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Friday 7th January
We love the cake!! All week we’ve had great fun offering your workplace cakes in order to cheer up your week as my 'Month of Indulgence' continues! Natalie enjoyed last night her 'detoxifying yet indulgent' fish pie and has just stunk out the office with smoked haddock! So which team are you on in January? Natalie’s team detox or my team indulge?   One thing we both agree on is that a sunshine holiday at the moment would be the perfect indulgence! All next week we will be giving you the chance to do exactly that with our friends at Monarch - so make sure you listen on Monday for your first chance to win .

There was a strange story today about a kleptomaniac cat who kept stealing things and bringing them home like for example a rugby boot! It reminded me of when my dog Nellie was a puppy and she tried to grab a white stick from a blind man! It was so embarrassing as the more he tugged to take it back, the more she pulled it the other way thinking it was a game…so I  rushed to the aid of the blind man whilst trying to persuade others to grab Nellie from behind! Luckily he took it quite well, but I never went back to that park again.

So enjoy your weekend and try not to let your pets embarrass you!

See you on Monday

Stu x

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Wednesday 5th January
Morning! So Stu launched his month of indulgence this morning, giving you the chance to win cakes for your workplace! All you’ve gotta do it get in touch with us and you could earn extra brownie points, like Michelle in Dallington who had forgotten to take cakes into her colleagues to celebrate her birthday and engagement, so used us to make it up to them!! Now, I’ve started my January detox, as you may have heard, and must admit I was surprised at the number of you who still have room for cake after Christmas. Obviously you didn’t indulge as much as me! The thing is, I’m perfectly happy doing it. I’ve been detoxing at the start of the year for about the last 6 years. I admit, when I first did it I spent the whole month dry skin brushing, drinking hot water and lemon each morning. Eating lots of brown rice, fish and veg... and rattling from the number of vitamin supplements I’d taken! This time around, I’m doing most of it not drinking, no caffeine or meat, just fish, sheep’s/goats milk and cheese, lots of green veg like kale and cabbage (yes I smell lovely) and fruit. Seriously though if you want to follow something, there are obviously lots of ideas in the papers and women’s magazines but I used a really good book called ‘Detox Yourself’ by Jane Scrivner which is simple, easy and whilst you can’t pig out on chocolate, it’s not a diet! (We don’t’ mention that word!!). You just need to be a bit organised.

Whatever you’re doing this month, the main thing is to feel good – it’s a new year and you can do what you want with it. On the show tomorrow we’re getting tips on beating the January Blues and we’ll be hearing from Jessica Chivers our in-house life coach – so you can guarantee you will have a spring in your step!!

See you in the morning from 6am
Natalie x

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Tuesday 4th January
Happy New Year!! We’re back, and this morning resolution was a dirty word! The trouble is we all end up breaking them so we thought it best to find out what you will be doing, with your 'to do list' for 2011! Now I know this is a bit weird but I have been having this dream about placing smarties on my face…so thought I might try it sometime to see how many I can get on my face at one time! On a slightly less random note, I’d also quite like to climb Snowdon and Natalie has brought her trumpet out as she wants to join a band or orchestra! One of our most shocking was a divorce but on the positive side she had told her hubby before she came on the air and announced it!
 

Natalie is on a detox at the moment details coming on forthcoming blogs! I have decided as January is such a gloomy month the best thing you can do is to indulge just  to get yourself through it and then worry about dieting when the weather picks up a bit! So this morning Natalie brings in cleansing Nettle and Peppermint tea, nuts and grapes I, meanwhile, had 2 sausages and am trying to tempt Natalie with them! 

I am off later today to return a couple of presents as we do at this time of year! Be great to hear about what you are taking back in the morning!

See you then

Stu x

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Friday 24th December (It's Christmas Eve!)


So that’s it from us, Stu, Myself and Producer Josh are all off to see our folks for Christmas and want to wish you and your family a fabulous Chrimbo and New Year. We can’t wait to see you in 2011 and we’ve got some real treats in store. So go eat, drink and be merry!

Lots of Love

S&N and our team x

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Thursday 23rd December
So it’s the morning after our Christmas Party and we are all just recovering!! It was a Hollywood themed Oscar Party and Natalie and I went dressed up (pics included for you to laugh at!) Natalie went as Marilyn Monroe and I went as a gangster! It was great fun till we stopped at the petrol station and the queue miraculously disappeared I swear I wasn’t carrying a gun! On the way in Natalie had her curly Marilyn wig on plus a thick coat and Ugg boots and I am convinced a couple of people who walked past thought it was Vera Duckworth! 

We had an Oscars ceremony at the party too which was great fun and I managed 3 nominations in categories such as girliest girl and most likely to appear in an adult movie!! Sadly no Oscar for me this year but Natalie B managed to walk away with the 'Biggest Diva' nominated for such reasons as insisting on smoked salmon and boiled eggs for breakfast! Actually she doesn’t insist on it, it’s just that she won’t go on air without it lol!


Make sure you are with us tomorrow as we have an amazing show for Christmas eve with Santa talking to kids live plus the final episode of our Panto! Till tomorrow, I ho ho ho hope you have a good day! 

Stu x

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Wednesday 22nd December
So how are you doing with your Christmas shopping? Stuart finally did his yesterday although he did have a bit of trauma working out the right size to buy his Ma, he was dumbfounded when over hearing a woman saying the top she had was a ‘small 12’… so I tried to explain, but women’s clothes sizes, as we know, are a minefield!

vNow I thought I’d been so organised ordering my pressies online at the beginning of December, BUT I’m missing the all important present, the Harry Potter Lego for you know wh - YES my Harry Potter obsessed nephew. So I’ve given it until today and it’s not com. The BF has been given the task of getting it for me today...lets hope it’s not sold out, or I don’t know what I’ll do!

We have our Christmas Party tonight here at Heart, so Stu and I may be whispering on air tomorrow. It’s an Oscars night, and we’ve decided to jazz things up a bit with our outfits, so make sure you’ve joined our facebook page here  as I’ll be posting up pictures later. You were telling us what you got up to at yours as we opened our ‘Heart Breakfast Christmas Confessionals’ today. We loved Sam’s story about getting his bosses hotel room key taking his mattress and belongings and put them out in the snow! Also Sarah, Katie, Claire and Diane from OAG who hijacked their live band who had gone on a break at their Christmas party. Everything was switched off except the drums of which Sarah was on – she described herself looking like  Animal from The Muppet Show!

We’ll tell you what happened at ours in the morning – and we also want to find out the details of your Christmas day, are there bizarre rituals that you do only at Christmas… is there an ‘order of proceedings’ that has to be met otherwise Mum gets mad if she doesn’t get everything washed up by the Queen’s Speech?

Tell us in the morning – and take care in the snow today.

Natalie x

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Tuesday 21st December
Oh No I still haven’t done ANY Christmas shopping and today’s the day! The question is can I get it all done in one store and in just two hours? It is going to be like Supermarket Sweep as I run around grabbing presents madly! I have already been warned by Natalie that there will be even people queuing for coffee so look out for me if you’re in the centre MK - I’ll be the stressed mad person running around going why is everything on my list already sold out!

vI actually got to sing with The Wanted today as part of our star studded Christmas extravaganza!  You can hear the results on Christmas eve and whether I can actually sing in tune or not?! That’s’ my boyband ambition of a lifetime fulfilled even if I am too old! Don’t forget if you want to hear the next episode listen at 6.20 or 8.20 in the morning plus you’ll be able to hear all the episodes right here at heart.co.uk very soon!

We have our office Christmas party tomorrow night and I am going dressed up as a surprise! Can’t tell you what as yet, but if you are wandering through MK tomorrow night and you think Santa has come early don’t worry its just me!

See you in the morning

Stu x

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Monday 20th December
Well the white stuff really came down this weekend, although Northamptonshire seems to have got off with a mere sprinkle! It’s amazing when it falls and you first look out and there's that dampening down of all the street noise. It really makes it look like a Winter Wonderland. I had to use a broom on my car last night to dig it out of the snow and then this morning again, was a right old mission! So if you’ve not used your car yet, do go see if it’s ok and start the engine, you don’t wanna get stuck before you’ve even started your Xmas celebrations!

We were giving you tips last week on ‘How to look good frozen’ tips to make your snowmen more interesting. There was the ‘Dickinson’ tip – add some OJ to your snowman for the fake tan effect and I spotted someone who had done just that in St Albans this weekend! I was queuing at the post office on Saturday morning, in the snow, to collect a parcel I’d tried to have delivered for Xmas... the lady in front of me joked how annoyed we’d be if we all got home to more of the missed delivery cards.. I’ve still got two pressies not turned up.. eek! 

Hopefully you’re able to feel the Christmas cheer, as we’re determined to keep you entertained all week. Today we launched our Christmas Panto – finally I get to be Cinderella and Stuart is my ‘Buttons’. We’ve got celeb guests all week – with Dawn French and Emma Bunton as my Ugly Sisters and Gok Wan as my ‘Fairy Godmother’. Don’t miss it tomorrow from 7.20am and we’ve got another chance for you to win £250 of shopping vouchers from McCain.

See you in the morning from 6am

Natalie x

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Friday December 17th
Guess what?! It’s only 8 more sleeps till Santa and you’ve been loving our sleeps till Santa song! Every Friday we have a guest celeb singing along and next Friday on Christmas eve all I can say is we have gone A list-tastic - don't miss it!

It’s gonna be a star studded week next week and I will be slapping my thigh in preparation for our panto. Natalie will play Cinderella, although, I wanted to play Cinderfella but that didn’t go down to well!

So instead I am Buttons the dumb ass of the panto - no acting required there then!

I am trying to make it a personal mission this weekend to avoid all the shops as it is going to  be a nightmare, if you are unlucky enough to have to hit the shops this weekend take a crash helmet and some calming pills and I’m sure you’ll be fine!

If it’s your last day at work today enjoy a well earned rest next week and remember we are on all week from 6 with loads of stuff to keep you and the family entertained in the run up to the big day including our panto, £250 of shopping vouchers to give away everyday thanks to McCain and on Christmas eve Santa could be talking to your child which we are really excited about!

Have a great weekend

See you Monday

Stu  x

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Thursday December 16th

So I spent the afternoon in London with my older sister yesterday, as it’s her birthday today (Happy Birthday Sis). She insisted on telling most of the people in various shops we visited that she was ‘the more mature model’ when people asked if we were sisters we had a real giggle! I did have to talk her out of some items she was picking up in M&S that were too ‘mumsy’ she tried the comfort argument in her middle age, but I told her very clearly – we can all do that with some finesse can’t we ladies!

Now one of the funniest things she told me was something my brother in law had said to her about one of her girlfriend’s who my sister thinks is very attractive. He didn’t agree as he thinks this woman has fat knees and ankles (otherwise known as cankles). My sister was flabbergasted that the slim, tall friend who she perceives as being just what men want - was described in such a way. Both of us being slightly vertically challenged at 5ft 4 and a bit and curvey have always thought like that, but doesn’t it just go to show how wrong we get it, when we stress about our lady lumps!!

Speaking of which, tomorrow I have my first bridesmaid dress fitting for wedding number one... update on Monday! Remember we may have some snow later today, so get home safe.

We’ll be back in the morning from 6am

Natalie x

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Wednesday December 15th
I am getting that slight feeling of panic you know when everyone else seems to have started their Christmas shopping apart from you! This morning we had some great calls about places you have hidden your presents and my favourite was Kelly who hid them at her neighbours house but her neighbour forgot and actually gave them back to Kelly at Christmas so she ended up opening her own presents!!

As a kid I remember scouring my parents house desperate to find out where the presents were hidden…the bottom of my parents wardrobe was always a good bet. I was always told that if I went looking for the presents then santa wouldn’t be coming…that’s a bit harsh!

Really wierd coincidence this morning, I have just moved into the lovely village of Great Offley in Hertfordshire and this mornings caller for ‘Play Your Birthday Cards Right’ turned out to be one of my new neighbours! Talk about a great way to get to know them…luckily she walked away with the prize otherwise I may have had to move!

Tomorrow we are talking Xmas rows…what is it you row about in your house over Xmas?  So many, so little time!

See you in the morning

Stu x

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Tuesday December 14th
So I’m back from my wedding fest over the weekend, the BF and I put in a lot of miles but managed it... although we didn’t last very long for wedding number two and had to leave about 10. The bride was happy partying away - it was a pretty surreal weekend, seeing more of my university friends getting married. They’re dropping like flies! I loved the photo booth that they had at wedding number one, where you could get your picture taken with various items from the fancy dress box - genius idea and the ladies loo was in the Butlers Pantry – how posh is that! It was also my last bout of weddings as a guest - next year I’ve got my three bridesmaid appearances... got my first dress fitting this weekend… eek hold the mince pies for now!

Meanwhile in the Stuart and Natalie household it’s the end of an era as Mr Miles is leaving me and has moved into a new house. I’m managing to cope as he’s getting all settled in, in time for Xmas. It looks like I’ve found a new roomy as it looks like one of my uni mates is going to move in, so we’ll be throwing the scatter cushions around, filling the cupboards with even more tat and sharing rom coms and baking tips me thinks! Meanwhile Mr Miles will be buying his new fur lined boots to walk Nelly through the rolling fields he has out back, and I’m hoping he’ll be inviting me round for some delicious dinners in his big farm kitchen... only time will tell as to whether a micro pig finds it’s way into his outhouse and he comes to work wearing a cravat!!

Nat x

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Monday December 13th

So Natalie was off today enjoying two weddings this weekend one of which is still going on now I reckon! I love a good wedding but they can be quite exhausting especially if you are stuck on a table with lots of people you don’t know…that is the moment when you maybe drink a little more and before you know it your doing the macarena with the brides auntie who is 68! At that point someone comes along with a video camera and you try to spend the whole time avoiding it as lets face it nobody wants reminding of that!

Great X Factor final last night, and although Matt was a deserving winner I was really surprised that Rebecca didn’t win as everyone I spoke to seemed to be voting for her…I blame Coleen Rooney! Seriously though, my theory is that maybe all the One Direction fans decided to vote for Matt once their idols were knocked out. I was quite shocked to hear that Joe McElderry’s new single only managed no.68 in the charts…he seems so sweet and I guess if things don’t work out he will have a career in West End theatre and be a big star of the future there. 

As for Matt well he must hope that he doesn’t suffer the same fate as Steve Brookstein! I hope he does really well and is given the correct support and the right songs! He will undoubtedly have a career from now on it’s just a question of whether that career is in the Big Top 40 or in the Bingo Hall….hopefully the former…good luck Matt!

See you in the morning when my partner in crime Natalie is back!

Stu x

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Friday December 10th
So last night I was at a charity event for RP Fighting Blindness, with some great acts put on by a Milton Keynes based record label . I met local legend Snake Davis an MK based amazing saxophone player who played the solo in Take That’s A Million Love Songs... WOW! Take That have more tickets going on sale for their Progress tour TODAY, so hopefully you’ve had another chance to get hold of some.. and they’re going to be performing at the BRITS in 2011.

Stuart has gone off to Jean Christophe Novelli’s cookery course today, leaving me behind - probably a good thing as I do have a bit of a thing for French accents, and when we met Jean Christophe the other day I found myself staring at his mouth a little too much! He’s given us some fab tips for cooking your Christmas dinner, which you can listen to here and even if you’re not interested in what he’s actually saying, just listen… trust me… you’ll enjoy it!

I’m off to two weddings this weekend, taking the BF up north to meet a bunch of my uni friends he’s never met - so it means I won’t be here on Monday as I couldn’t manage a wedding in Lancashire on Sunday and then getting back in time for Monday’s show. So the boss kindly has let me recover! Stu and Producer Josh will be keeping you entertained, finding out about your nativity stories… so do get in touch and look after them both in my absence… you know what they say.. when the cat is away…

Have a fab weekend and I’ll be back Tuesday

Natalie x

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Thursday 9th December
Last night I got a right old shock as Stuart and I were watching a programme called ‘Mad About House’ where couples who can’t afford to do up their house, get some money to help them out... and there on the screen was a girl from my Uni! It was mad – as I’ve not seen her for years and if you’ve ever had that happen to you, you’ll know it’s a very surreal experience! So as Stu and I sat in front of the box, eating our tea, I was chattering away about the girl and in hindsight was being slightly tactless about the way she looked. I remember her being a fashion student and very cool and couldn’t help but announce to Stu that I thought she looked ‘dowdy’. He was very quiet and then on the show this morning gave me a telling off for being unkind… I’ll blame the shock. Have you ever had that, seen someone you know on the telly? If so who was it? Do tell!

We were finding out how Chrismassy you’re feeling by getting you to complete the following sentence... 'you know its Christmas when and you...' can keep telling us on our facebook page here . I’ve pretty much done all my shopping online and I know its Christmas as I keep getting the red cards through my door from the postman telling me I’ve missed the delivery and need to go pick them up! 

Now if you’re still to do shopping we’ve got some tips for you if you’re not great at picking out gifts:

1. If it feels like a bad idea.. it probably is!
2. For your man – never buy anything that implies you want to change him and walk away from the socks, boxer shorts and worst of all the toiletry gift set. They either scream ‘I picked this up for you last minute’ or ‘I’m assuming the role of your mother’!
3. For your lady – Only buy underwear if you know her exact size or you WILL cause upset, and AVOID kitchen gadgets, red nylon or anything with the prefix ‘novelty’. Yes really!

That should help!!

We’re back tomorrow morning with the last chance for you to win a digital tv and digital tv recorder and we’d love to hear about your weekend in just 3 words!

See you in the morning from 6am

Natalie xx

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Wednesday 8th December
So it turns out Festive names are the way forward!  You might call your child Holly or Robin but would you really call a child sparkle, winter or Santa? Those names are on the official list of names people have called their children born around the Christmas period….can you imagine!  I mean if you are going down that road then what about the name mulled wine or brussel sprout lol! How ridiculous!

I made it to the gym last night and saw the classic man falling off the running machine scenario…it’s always funny and was hilarious watching everyone trying not to laugh. You just know that the guy concerned will be on the phone today finding a new gym as the only thing he really hurt was his dignity!`

Make sure you’re listening tomorrow, especially if your name is Dave or you know a Dave as we are launching our 12 Dave’s of Christmas song!  See what we did there!

If you fancy being one of our Dave’s get in touch by emailing us here , facebook us here , or calling us on 0845 810 077 between 6-10am. We’d love to hear from you and don’t worry you don’t really need to be able to sing just be up for a laugh!

See you in the morning

Stu x

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Tuesday 7th December
On the show today we wanted to compile a list of modern day merchandise for next year’s Royal Wedding. Never mind mugs and plates, we came up with the ‘Middleton Mulberry’ handbag, Prince Williams ‘Regain’ – heir to the throne! David had the idea of a Royal ‘Wii’, Rose had the idea of a perfume for Kate and an aftershave for Wills called HRH. Jen said what about a novelty toaster with the letter W&C on the toast. Problem is, Buckingham Palace have insisted Kate is referred to as Catherine, meaning the WC merchandise could be the butt of many jokes! All great though and might just get us that step closer to an invite to the Royal doo!

Last night, Stuart almost set fire to our kitchen as he managed to drop a tea-towel on a lit candle in the kitchen, whilst cooking. He only admitted this to me on the show this morning. I was upstairs glued to watching ‘27 Dresses’, a pretty naff rom-com I’d though I’d watch in preparation for my upcoming bridesmaid duty next year. Incase I’ve not already mentioned - I’m bridesmaid three times, taking my grand total to SEVEN!! So, I’ve got my first dress fitting in two weeks with Bride numero uno, Bride numero deux has sent me through a picture of the dress she’s ordering online. I have to dedicate myself to the gym now  - this is where it’s handy having a BF who’s a personal trainer... giving me a very specific programme! I thought this might also be a way on to the Royal invite list... if I could just tempt Kate with my Bridesmaid bootcamp, she might let me into her ‘circle of ladies in waiting’…what do you think?!

Big well done to Leanne in Crown Hill who won herself a Digital TV and Digital TV recorder on the show today. Well deserved as she said the telly she had was given to her when her Nan passed away… we think it was a colour one though, so her new prize won’t be too much of a surprise!

Make sure you join us in the morning from 6am for another chance to win this amazing home entertainment system, in time for Christmas

See you tomorrow from 6am

Natalie x

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Friday 4th December
Typical it snows all weekend and disrupts all our lives and then come the weekend when we can get out and enjoy it it turns to slush!! When I was a kid we used to get old fertilizer sacks from the farm I used to live near and use those to whizz down the hill on and believe me - they build up a bit of speed! The only thing was the best slopes were in the orchards, so you were fine as long as you went in a straight line otherwise you were likely to find yourself wrapped around a tree! Lets hope we get another chance to enjoy a bit of snow this winter but on the weekend only please?!

Listening to the World Cup announcement yesterday afternoon it struck me that they could take a leaf out of the X factors book…I mean the announcement went on for ever! They needed the X factor tension bed with our mentor David Beckham (great excuse to use a picture of him ladies!) standing there looking nervous before the winner was finally announced. In fact it would probably sound something like this !

After a few busy weekends with Christmas light switch ons we both have the entire weekend to ourselves - I suppose I should start some Christmas shopping but not sure I can face it yet! Reckon it’ll be last minute for me…..again!

Have a great weekend!

Stu x

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Thursday 3rd December
Stuart has been shouting out the Time Tunnel in his sleep – 1873 was the year. Luckily not one we use as I’m not sure it would sound that great-maybe a harpsichord classic! You’ve been telling us the strange things you do in your sleep and you really made us chuckle this morning. My favourite was Sally in Dunstable who said another man’s name whilst asleep with her partner. She had some explaining to do the following morning. Shaun in Northampton said – My dad wakes up during the night and shout where’s the fudge cake suitcase’ he’s clearly mad! Margaret said ‘the night before we went camping I slept walked downstairs. My mum found me about to wee in the dustbin thinking it was a bucket that people use when they go camping... EMBARRASSING! Simon in Luton said ‘I went to New York a few years ago with some guys from uni, apparently one of them walked in on me and another guy discussing the British weather in our sleep.

And finally Chris Collins – who told us his lovely wife Maxine passes wind and laughs in her sleep – would like to apologise to her… done!

So we really got the snow today didn’t we, I still think we got of lightly compared to other parts of the country… hopefully it’s not affected your day too much and luckily it’s nearly the weekend. We want to know your 3 word weekend tomorrow as we prepare for more snow.

Keep warm, stay safe and we’ll be back with you tomorrow when you wake up

Natalie x

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Tuesday 30th November
There’s no business like snow business! I call this manageable snow. Enough for the kids to get excited but hopefully not too much to cause major disruption! We had a few school closures today and all the details are here . Personally I am looking forward to seeing the news tonight with some guy going to work on ski’s - there’s always one!

On the show today we talked about the things you definitely do not want to do at this years office Christmas party and here are our favourites:

Stuart – Don’t get dressed as an Elf, it’s not pretty even if it seems like a funny idea!

Natalie – Don’t kiss a work colleague who’s more ‘known’ that you! Even if you keep it quiet, you’ll end up getting drunk another time and telling people!

Sally in Dunstable – Under no circumstances go near the photocopier when under the influence... Big mistake, huge!!!

Lesley in Bedford – Don’t get really drunk and sit in the hotel lobby with your friend under the Xmas tree unwrapping all the presents, all they found were empty boxes.

Lisa said don't go home sober from a Xmas party

Chris in Luton – Don’t offend the bosses wife!

Anna in Northants – Don’t show too much skin because a) it’s cold b) Len in accounts WILL try it on c) it’ll be harder to maintain your dignitity when you’re merry!

Wendy – Don’t do extra curriculum activity with the Boss…

And finally  Zoe in Luton – Don’t blab the work taxi account details to everyone!!

Thanks for all your ideas!

See you in the morning

Stu x

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Monday 29th November
So this weekend, Stuart and I were out and about turning on Christmas lights which was great, despite being oh sooo cold! We met Cherie in Hitchin, Marie and Sarah in Hatfield and Harry and his Mum Amy in Harpenden… where we also got to go in the parade! Driven in a gorgeous horse drawn carriage, by the lovely Michelle. Larry Lamb and the Mayor of Harpdenden were in the carriage as well – Larry is playing Captain Hook in Peter Pan at The Alban Arena. Whilst Larry and I were sat next to each other I decided not to quiz him about his handsome son, instead I called my Ma and got Larry to speak to her.. I’m yet to hear from her whether she’s recovered as she’s a HUGE Enders fan…it was very funny though! 
  Stuart was so embarrassed by my behaviour! When he got home - he decided I'd driven him to eating a Fray Bentos pie… and then sliced his finger on the lid!! He called me slightly worried about the amount of blood and lack of plasters in our house. So I directed him to the well stocked first aid kit in the bathroom and you can see his injury at our facebook page here .  Do let us know about your food related injuries.. I have a scar on my knuckle from grating parmesan (and my knuckle!) whilst making meatballs!

If it’s snowing where you are – wrap up warm and enjoy before it turns to slush!

See you tomorrow from 6am

Natalie x

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Friday 26th November
Never work with children and animals they say! I should know that more than anyone when you consider my Blue Peter background! This morning we met our McCain family of the month (see pic) who were fantastic and in true live radio tradition, as soon as we opened the microphone little 3 year old Amelia said ‘toilet’ lol! Has to be one of my all time favourite moments on the show because as any parent will know, you can plan all you like but you can never ever predict a child!  Once Amelia had been to the toilet and promised sweets she was ready to takeover the show! She insisted on doing the weather before she left but told us all in no uncertain terms there would be no snow…sorry Amelia I think on that one you may be wrong but we will wait and see what the weekend brings!

On the subject of the freezing temperatures we are out and about all weekend switching on light sin Hitchin, Hatfield and Harpenden look forward to seeing you there! Apparently in Harpenden we will be pulled along in a Cinderella coach…so I am gonna feel like an ugly sister or a pumpkin and Natalie will be Cinders of course!

So whatever you do wrap up warm this weekend and don’t end up looking like the wooky monster!!

See you Monday

Stux

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Thursday November 25th
We’re at the Howard Centre this afternoon turning on the Christmas lights with TITAN the Robot and Lloyd Davies from X-Factor, so do come down and say hello!

On the show today, we were getting you to join in with our realisation that Stuart and I - are actually middle aged. I was far too excited about my new duvet the other day and then there was the BF telling me he was excited to have discovered a second set of bathroom towels with matching mats. So he could now rotate what he had in his bathroom... It had the pair of us laughing at how old we sounded! We asked you to complete the following sentence 'you know you’re middle aged when…' Tina said when you have to write big notes to yourself so you know what your doing for the day!! Robyne said ‘When your mum tells you that you should have got one of the youngsters at the DIY store to carry the heavy paint pots to your car!

Some of you joined in anonymously… and here are some of our favourites! 'You’re willing go to bed because your tired then realise its before the time your parents always told you that you had to be in by on a school night', 'when u look at clothes with elastic waists and think that'll give nicely and be comfortable'. 'When on a night out you wear comfy shoes and warm clothes' and we loved Tina’s in Kempston who said 'when your 14 yr old son can see the grey hairs on the top of your head - and you're standing up!

See you tomorrow morning from 6am – for your 3 word weekend!

Natalie x

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Wednesday November 24th
Slightly embarrassed to admit I would like my hair short and silver like Sisqo…remember him from the thong song? The thing is I am just not brave enough, especially after my last disaster when I tried to go for the blonde spiky look aka Limahl - and ended up looking like an albino hedgehog! Still everyone has done it, you get talked around by the hairdresser and then instantly regret it! Natalie had the same experience when her hair ended up red and instead of a sophisticated Cheryl look, she ended up more Ronald McDonald!

I am shocked that Sir Cliff Richards Calendar is selling more than both JLS and Michael Buble and he is topless in it! He’s 70!!!So you know what you have to do Mr Buble if you want to shift some more Calendars next year….whip your top off!

Still feeling a little humbled after our amazing trip to Keech hospice in Luton.  It was great to meet the team and some of the parents for which whom this service is a lifeline.  However a special mention goes to all the amazing kids we met who were just incredible despite major adversity!  This years Have a Heart appeal aims to help place like this so check out the full details right here . 

See you in the morning

Stu x  

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Tuesday November 23rd
Morning! Yesterday I met up with cheeky chappy Olly Murs as he’s about to release his album (it's out 29th November). He was in a great mood, although slightly annoyed as he’d lost his wallet the night before whilst slightly worse for wear! We had a little chat and I got him to spill the beans on what he would do if his album got to number one. Do you remember that he said he’d strip if ‘Please Don’t Let Me Go’ got to number 1.. and it did…so he did - with just a hat to hide his modesty! Well you can find out what he'll do next on Thursday’s show! Also I got him to tweet he was with me (see pic - its the second one down!) which is becoming a bit of a theme on the show. Do follow us on Twiter @NatalieB77 and @Stuart_Miles – Stuart has just entered the twitter world and is getting very quickly sucked in… he was 're-tweeting' something Dolly Parton said the other day! 

We were at The Mall in Luton on Sunday, opening up the Christmas Grotto and turning on the lights with Fireman Sam and Lucy Jones from the X-Factor. It was a fun afternoon, although I broke the heel off my knee high boots whilst we were walking around the parade... which meant another pair of boots had to be bought! All fine, although you know when you buy something in a slight panic - I now own a rather high pair of mid calf boots, with a faux fur lining!! There was loads of amazing talent including this young man who was amazing! We’ll be in Welwyn at The Howard Centre on Thursday from 4.30pm with TITAN the Robot and Lloyd Daniels along with other fab acts to keep you entertained so look forward to seeing you there.

See you tomorrow from 6am

Natalie x

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Friday November 19th
So it appears the thing couples dread the most at weddings is their first dance!  I bet William and Kate are getting butterflies about theirs and I wonder what they will dance too? We had great fun coming up with the ideas that they definitely won’t be dancing too and they include the Macarena, the Birdy song and imagine if Dancing Queen came on lol!! Would her majesty hit the dancefloor? I think something more classical maybe like ‘we’re walking in the heir’ that’s definitely my fave!

Now here is my dilemma this weekend I have not seen a single Harry Potter movie ever, do I go and see the new one or should I wait and watch all the others first? Part of me wants to just jump straight in but Natalie insists I should wait and watch them all first but I quite like the sound of this one as it’s a lot darker! I guess the deciding factor is whether I can actually get into it as I have a feeling it may be all booked up!

If you’re in Luton this Sunday make sure you come and say hi! We will be at the Mall switching on the Christmas lights.  Joining us will be Lucy Jones from last years X factor she has am amazing voice so you are in for a treat! 

Whatever you’re upto this weekend have a brilliant weekend and see you Monday!!

Stu x

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Thursday November 18th
It’s been proved that four out of five men are oblivious to so called ‘helpful’ present hints dropped by their other halves. Most Christmases I leave it to chance and end up being disappointed... Like last year, I couldn’t think of anything, so was really vague to my family and got random bits. I asked my mum for PJ’s - she bought me Katie Price style pink ones with big pink hearts on…they had a racing style back and the bottoms were pretty low hipsters, not leaving a lot to the imagination! Although they’ve caused much amusement when I’ve worn them! This year, I’ve decided to be pretty obvious to the BF, showing him a picture in a magazine of a swatch I’d like…I’m good though, it’s not expensive! Yesterday he told me it wasn’t out yet, so he’s obviously looking into it... so I then made it a bit clearer that I would like it for Christmas, so we’ll see…

We were trying to help you out on the show, with people directly asking for what they’d like - as you agreed that the hints you’d been dropping weren’t really working. My favorite text was this one ‘My partner asked me on Saturday what I wanted for Xmas while we were having a romantic meal. I started humming ‘Here comes the bride’. He then asked me why I wanted to visit the Queen. I said I didn’t, he said ' Why are humming the national anthem’ - ha - PROOF that men don’t get subtle!!

Now, yesterday I bought myself a new duvet... as since it’s got colder I’ve been chilly beneath the sheets. So I spent ages trying to decide with no idea what a decent price to pay was. I knew the tog I wanted, and that I didn’t want feather, but I wanted something that would make my bed delicious to get into. Finally after much deliberation, and the BF wondering off and sprawling around on various beds around the store, I doubled my budget (to the delight of the shop assistant) and bought a ‘luxury duvet with microfiber and cashmere’! Ohh la la - it was described as creating a ‘warm cocoon’ which had me sold! Indulgent I know - but I tell you... I slept like a baby last night (sleep isn’t my forte) it was SUCH a good buy and has made me sooo happy. I feel quite middle aged now though - getting excited about a something I’ve bought for the house…and telling several of my girlfriends about it!!

It’s Friday tomorrow and as always we’d love to hear your three word weekend, so why not visit our facebook page and we’ll get you on the show!

Have a good day - gonna see if I can sneak back to bed!

Natalie x

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Wednesday November 17th
It seems it’s ok for men to wear Magic pants….yes Spanx for men have hit the stores and now anything that should be northbound but is heading southbound can be put firmly back in its place!  We weren’t convinced that men are actually going to buy these, I mean it’s a bit embarrassing isn’t it? Would a wife or girlfriend actually buy them for her fella? I don’t think I would wear them…if of course  I actually needed them (no comments please lol!). The main reason women gave as to why men should  wear magic pants is that they have suffered for long enough and men should realise how it feels! The thing is we would just look uncomfortable and moan all the time! So make your choice - pot belly or moaning?

Now I thought I was rubbish at accents until I heard Natalie’s Manchester accent on this mornings show, if you missed it don’t worry I am going to do my best to find opportunities for her to do it again. It was like Liam Gallagher’s mad niece!

Right when I speak to you in the morning I hope to have considerably less hair, if I let it grow anymore I would turn into Jason Donovan circa 1988! 

See you in the morning

Stu x

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Tuesday November 16th
Yesterday I got to see the Take That documentary... 2 days late! I watched it with my boyfriend’s pregnant sister as she needed an excuse to ‘rest’ and I gave her a very decent one! The opening comment saying ’14 years ago the boys were first together’ made the pair of us remark on how old it made us feel... as did a lot of the footage of the screaming girls. Did I really look that unattractive at 16? Still, it was a thoroughly enjoyed hour or so of the five Take That boys showing how grown up they now are and from the tracks heard, the new album sounds AMAZING!

I cycled home into the cold dark night – very satisfied with my TT fix, but managed to terrify a pedestrian ringing my bell whilst going along a cycle path. I would like to FORMALLY apologise right here, right now, to the lady who jumped out of her skin as I cycled by… I was nowhere near, I just rang my bell as I was approaching her so she didn’t jump, but I think I made the matter worse. Do the cold, dark nights make you more jumpy??

On the show today, Kate text us to say she’s already bought all her Xmas pressie’s… I’ve started but tried to be clever buying bits online, and have ordered some of the wrong things… you know they’re never gonna get sent back! I’m determined to STOP buying presents for random people who I probably won’t see too. Don’t you think Christmas shopping does strange things to your rationale? or is it just me??

Tomorrow we’ve got another chance for you to see Michael Buble Live in New York – at Maddison Square Garden, so make sure you’re listening!

See you then from 6

Natalie x

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Monday November 15th
Brrrrrrrrrrrr!!! I am loving the texts we are getting at the moment regarding how many layers you should wear in the morning it is really starting to feel like winter now!  This morning we played our first Christmas tunes on Heart Breakfast and luckily for me they were my all time favourites - Wham and ‘Last Christmas’ and Mariah Carey’s ‘All I want for Christmas’. I also love a bit of ‘Driving home for Christmas’ especially on Christmas eve! What’s yours? 

Did you see the Take that Documentary?  I loved seeing the guys chilling out in the studio and the best part of all was when Elton entered the studio to give his seal of approval.  Was it just me but how weird did Elton look without his glasses? Not something we are used to seeing but that’s the beauty of these documentaries!  The only thing I wish I had seen more of was the guys relaxing…maybe Robbie playing football or Gary baking a cake….next time guys!!

On Friday we all went out for lunch to discuss our plans for Heart Breakfast for Christmas and the New Year…all I can say is watch this space we have some amazing and fun things for you to get involved in and some incredible giveaways in January just when you need a bit of a lift!

See you in the morning

S x

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Friday November 12th

Last night I was at the Galleria in Hatfield to turn on the Xmas lights with the gorgeous Bel Amie. They were great, I must say I was a bit sceptical about their live singing abilities, but I was wrong and they were all very smiley, despite having a long night ahead of them. I think their next gig was at 2am! I had a bit of time to kill whilst at the Galleria, so it seemed rude to not take a little visit to the shops. I may have got a little carried away in it’s that time of year where you start buying Chrimbo pressies, but then obviously see things you like. So now, I’ve got several lovely items which I’ve kind of marked for family members but I know I’ve got my eye on them!
It sure is a blustery day today, so make sure you’re wrapped up warm. You were telling us your three word weekends, which we get you to do each week. I’m off to see a matinee of Jesus Christ Superstar tmw at The Alban Arena which will be fun, the Boyfriend even agreed to come with me. Stuart is relaxing and you’re having some good food. Ceri was nails, work, tattoos! Amanda’s glamming it up too with friends, photoshoot and Champneys! And Lyndsey’s having a Where's Wally weekend. And we had David say Letchworth over £8K as he called to say the organisers of the Letchworth Garden City fireworks wanted to thank everyone who attended their fireworks as they raised an incredible £8 and half thousand pounds for local charity. How amazing is that!

We’ll be back on Monday – don’t forget to watch the Take That documentary on tomorrow night. The TT soap opera continues.
Have a super duper weekend
Natalie xx

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Thursday November 11th
Yesterday Natalie and I went to a meeting to plan some of the Christmas light switch-ons we are going to be doing over the next couple of weeks! Plus we found out about some of the X-factor contestants that we are hoping to have with us as guests!
It has made me feel a bit Christmassy and its always weird but at this time of year the time seems to race by and before you know it it’s suddenly here!  That’s why this year I am planning for once to be organised and have all my shopping done and no last minute rush! Apparently Natalie’s already bought her boyfriends present so I need to get with it!  

After 6 months of living together I am moving out of the house Natalie and I share as I am buying my own place which is very exciting which leaves Natalie with dilemma of whether her boyfriend should move in!  You gave great advice today and it turns out her boyfriend heard some of the show so watch this space, as for me I think I’ll be sharing my place with some micro-pigs (Joke).They are soooo gorgeous!!

See you in the morning x
Stuart

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Wednesday November 10th
Last night, I went out on a school night and had a great time and made some new friends. Having only been a resident in Hertfordshire for a few months, it takes time to get settled and I do think making new friends gets harder as you get older, and can be quite daunting at times. But with the help of google, I found a great website! Its a new type of women’s network. Now normally my breakfast bedtime of 8pm means it ain’t always that straight forward to have a social life mid-week, but with the added benefit of an afternoon siesta, Spanish styley. I went out for a bit of a pamper at The Cove Spa, followed by passion fruit ‘mocktail’ at Mokoko’s. for my first taster of the More to Life than Shoes ‘women’s club’. This brilliant group was set up by three ladies Nadia, Emily and Susie and brings together all sorts of ladies, with all kinds of aspirations, enabling you to talk to your peers and get inspired to make stuff happen! Whether you’re a new mum, keen to get back to the working world, but doing something a bit different or that book inside you is desperate to get out there’s nothing better than having a good old chin wag with other ladies. Hearing how they’ve made it work for them to get you really excited about your ideas. I know a number of my pals with kids who are really keen to get back to work, in a way that will enable them to continue to look after their kids. Sometimes all you need is to bounce ideas of your friends. Anything is possible, if you think it through to give it a go!

Also, I do think it can be tough making new friends when you move to a new place, as personally I don’t have the added bonus of ‘little ones’ (yet!) as a reason to join groups and meet people. So for me, this was a welcomed addition to what’s going on in my life! One of my ‘new’ friends even ripped something out of a magazine and gave it to me, which is exactly the kind of thing I do with my pals, so I left at 9.05pm (dirty stop out!) ooh just past the watershed with a spring in my step.

Loving a bit of Girl Power! click here to check it out

We’ll be back tomorrow from 6am with another chance for you to win £5,000 worth of travel vouchers
See you then
Natalie

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Tuesday November 9th
I am feeling not quite as ugly as I did yesterday as there has been a list of what makes the perfect male and female face, both myself and Natalie dont come off too badly! Well if I am honest she came off better than me but I do have a perfect face, a perfect face for radio!
What do you think about these new wonderbottom dresses that are designed in 4 key shapes depending on the size of your backside!  The pear. tomato, potato or nectarine! Personally I think there are a couple of shapes missing, where is the cauliflower for those with cellulite and for those fans of the larger backside there’s the two watermelons struggling to escape from a fishing net!
Today we asked what your kids had done when you said no and we had some great naughty stories come in! One of our favourites was the girl who was told not to touch anything on the car and then managed to let the handbrake off and the car reversed into a pile of rocks! But you can’t beat Natalie’s Nephew who was told he couldn’t have a Harry Potter wand worth £18 until he had done some chores so went online with his mothers card details and ordered one!
Finally it seems that all this speculation regarding Simon Cowell and Cheryl Cole going out together is a bit of a dogs dinner. Well the way Simon Cowell described it was like he was the dog food and she was the dog! Not sure they will ever go out with each other after that comment!

See you in the morning
Stu x

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Monday November 8th
What a weekend of fireworks!! Last night Stuart and I were at Campbell Park in Milton Keynes where it was the 31st year of the display taking place. It was an unbelievable display. That along with a pretty awesome fun fair had me in my element! I love fairgrounds, in Nottingham there’s one in October called Goose Fair which I always used to go to with my pals as it was around my birthday. I’ve missed it for the last few years so was very excited to get to go on my favourite ride last night. The Waltzer!
Stuart had a fancy carvery burger in his hand, so was excused and instead I dragged the Heart Angels on and demanded we were spun a lot! Now, I’m a relatively regular Waltzer go-er normally on Brighton Pier when I go to see my mates who live down there. We act all mature and go on and giggle the whole time. This Waltzer was old school! The guy spun us round, the same way CONTINUOSLY for about 10 minutes. I was laughing and screaming soooo much. My voice has been noticeable more husky this morning! But oooooh what fun! If you’ve seen Despicable Me, where the cute little girl says of the Unicorn she gets at the fun fair ‘It’s so fluffy I’m gonna die’ well ‘I was sooo dizzy.’ You get the gist!

I have also managed to spend this weekend getting lost much to the amusement of my Boyfriend, Stuart and others! wven with a map and google maps on my phone and a print out from multi-map. I still couldn’t find the Bedford Blues Rugby club on Friday night. Yesterday, I got lost on my way home to St Albans. In my defence, it’s been about a year and half since I owned a car and am used to getting around on a bike or the train or bus (both normally know where they’re going) So I guess it takes a bit of getting used to. Don’t worry I am safe on the road. It was funny though seeing the Boyfriend gripping onto the door when we drove to the fireworks in Luton on Saturday, but really, in the words of Rainman ‘I’m a good driver’.

Don’t miss the show in the morning, Emma Bunton will be back with us giving you the chance to win £5000 worth of travel vouchers. Ginta in Northampton won them today and it could be you tomorrow.

Happy Monday
Natalie x

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Friday November 5th
Standby for fireworks! Well that was what I thought might happen when I compared Natalie’s ballet training to a young Anne Widdecombe…but she took it well! Seriously hats off to her I don’t know if I would be that brave - or fit into those tights!  Check it out when you get a chance it’s right here !

Standby for more fireworks this weekend of course with all the fab displays happening across the region! Natalie and I will be popping up in Bedford, Stevenage, Luton and Milton Keynes this weekend so come along and say hi - we would love to see you. 

If you missed our chat this morning with Dawn French why not have a listen here right now. Dawn is one of my fave people to have on the show, despite the fact that she revealed that she thinks that Jamie Theakston is the best snogger…humphhhhh!! She clearly hasn’t snogged me yet lol!

Emma Bunton is with us all next week giving away £5000 of travel vouchers every single day…can’t wait!  All you have to do is guess where in the world she is having breakfast…it’s simple!

Have a great weekend…stay safe with your fireworks and catch you Monday when you wake up!

Stu x

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Thursday November 4th

What a nightmare on the roads today, hope your journey to work wasn’t too bad… although I know so many of us were affected it probably was. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. I’m currently looking to buy a car… I have owned cars in the past, but whilst living in London I didn’t really need one, so sold it for my bicycle. Now I’m a big fan of two wheels over four, but the winter weather and the early starts have meant my cycling has declined somewhat.. also there’s a certain vanity about turning up everywhere a bit sweaty if you cycle there - although I’d like to think I have almost mastered cycling chic!! Still, I have far too much hair to wear a cycle helmet all the time and my current bike has presta valves which if you know bikes, you’ll know they’re REALLY hard to pump up and I keep snapping them off – DOH!

So, the car hunting has begun and much to the amusement of the sales people I’ve spoken to so far, my bike fitting into the car is a very important part of the criteria. First stop was a Ford garage, as I’ve always driven them… and to my delight a female salesperson approached me and explained everything – SO I UNDERSTOOD! I did start the conversation with her saying… I’m not really interested in cars, I just want something that I can afford, fit my bike in, has low fuel emissions (the hippy that I am) and is fun to drive. I ain’t no Jeremy Clarkson, so I tried a Ka (which I used to have and got all excited by the pretty trim I could add) and a Fiesta… not bad… moving on today to the Mazda T2 - a car I’ve decided has a nice face. The headlights make all the difference! I’m driving one later so we’ll see how I do. I’m looking forward to being back in four wheels, but I will still be on my bike as often as I can – as I’d like to introduce 'Curls on Wheels' my cycling pseudoname! Definitely the best way to get the firm thighs we all dream of. I’m not there yet mind… but you know, every little helps!

Tomorrow we have Dawn French on the show and as you saw on Stu’s entry yesterday, he was so chuffed with his photo and you can hear the moment we gave the picture to Dawn tomorrow (they used to cross paths at the Beeb you know!) She’ll also be talking about her new book – A Tiny Bit Marvellous, which is definitely going on my Christmas list.

Until tomorrow – stay safe and we’ll be with you from 6am

Natalie x

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Wednesday November 3rd

Loving your work this morning helping us out with a survey to find out if BMW drivers really are the angriest drivers! All we asked was that you wave or smile at one, and text us with the reaction…we had all sorts of reactions from people sticking their middle finger up, to smiling, and overtaking… one woman even smiled and then found the driver kept winking at her! Give it 6 months and there’ll be happily married living in Bedford with a kid on the way lol!

I am so pleased with my signed pic  with Dawn French. She is on with us on Friday morning and unfortunately I couldn’t meet up with her yesterday, so Nat mocked up a pic which she asked Dawn to sign! The only thing is, it looks like I am accepting an OBE I think I may have been stuck on the body of Lenny Henry!  She actually remembered meeting me a few years ago outside the BBC 1 controllers office…we had both been summoned and she was so lovely then and I was chuffed she actually remembered!!

We are off to start the Kimbolton fireworks tonight, so looking forward to my first fireworks display of the season…no need to wrap up as its so mild at the moment, although I like it when you can actually see your own breath on bonfire night!  I am going to be in Stevenage, Luton and Milton Keynes over the weekend at more displays so come and say hi!

See you in the morning

Stu x

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Monday November 1st

This weekend I went back to Nottingham to see my folks and also to have some celebratory drinks with some of my girlfriends, as another one of my clan has just got engaged! All very exciting and there was lots of ring comparisons going on with my two friends who are now going to be subscribing to Bride's magazine!

Now, I’m already being a bridesmaid twice next year. Once for my pal who is getting married in May and the other for my pal in June. The newly engaged chum asked me the ‘B’ question on Friday night too, so that’s a third time for me! She’s thinking of a May/June/July wedding as well…eek I am going to be BUSY! Now there’s a little story here, about five years ago a friend asked me to be hers - and as I’d been a bridesmaid four times for family members over the years, I declined. I didn’t think it was right to do it, when my heart wasn’t in it… and also the famous ‘three times a bridesmaid NEVER a bride’ was ringing very loudly in my head. Then a few years later another friend asked me and I stuck to my decision saying no again. I was then mortified later when both brides confessed I’d really offended them! Of course, I felt awful to have caused such offence, but being the superstitious chic I am, and also having had a run of failed relationships – could you blame me?

When the first request to be a bridesmaid came this year from my equally superstitious friend - she informed me of something she had read in her book of wedding folklore which explained the reason the phrase exists - I shall enlighten you! Apparently the job of the bridesmaid is to protect the bride from evil spirits, so the ‘three times a bridesmaid never a bride’ saying exists because of the over exposure to the evil spirits, affecting said bridesmaids chances of being a bride! HOWEVER… because we all know that seven is such a lucky number, apparently if the bridesmaid get to do her duty seven times it cancels all the others out (not in significance!!) meaning I CAN STILL BE A BRIDE… phew. So there you have it a useless but useful fact - and I’m not off to rent ’27 Dresses’ from Blockbuster…

Tomorrow on the show we’re asking you for your useless but useful facts…do share yours!

See you tomorrow from 6am

Natalie x

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Friday October 29th
So Friday is here and we are in the mood for Halloween!  As I mentioned earlier in the week I am getting my face painted this weekend not something I can remember happening even as a child! So far the favourite idea seems to be me as a Pumpkin so I am thinking of borrowing some orange facepaint or maybe I should borrow some of Natalie’s fake tan lol!

Loving your spooky 3 word weekends especially the “zombie pub crawl”, although I have a feeling they may look more scary the morning after, with one hell of a scary hangover!

Don’t forget the clocks go back by one hour this weekend so we all get an extra hour in bed which means if you forget you’ll be an hour early for everything! 

Check out our facebook page for a pic of me in full face paint if you need a giggle and don’t forget to show us what you got up to aswell!

Happy Halloween…Mwoooohahahaaaaahaaaaaaaaaa...

Stu x

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Thursday October 28th
So tomorrow is the day when the Take That tickets go on sale! The last time I saw the boys perform was in Birmingham when they were a 5 band… I was 16 and my friend Sarah and I got the bus to the NEC, with a whole load of other girls… the excitement was amazing, as we were all united singing our favourite TT songs on route. When we got into the arena, we did feel a bit old, but at the same time – superior as we were both CONVINCED that we caught Robbie’s eye (me) and Mark’s eye (my mate) during the Beatles medley they performed at the time… I remember being on a bus home, with lots of other crazy girls all equally convinced they’d got a place in the Take That boys hearts. Oh dear - it’s all flooding back to me (see what I did there) including the bootleg tapes we used to share round at school that another mate of mine who LOVED Howard got her hands on. One of my friends actually got to go on a date with Mark when she was older… after slightly stalking him for a while when we were at school. And I NEVER FORGET when I was in Spain at a school trying to improve my Spanish and my mum called me to tell me that Robbie had left the band... I cried!

Luckily I’m older and slightly less delusional now… well, I 'almost' got to meet Robbie and Gary when they came into Heart to tell us all about Shame. Despite not getting anywhere near them, I did get to touch their water bottles! My point with all these Take That confessions is that my friend and I have got our game play sorted for tomorrow morning as the tickets go on sale. She’s going into work early, I will be here... and we’re both gonna get on the phones and make sure we get two tickets each, so we WILL be going.. fingers crossed… and if you are intending to try and get tickets – all the details are here . May the best phoners win!!! I’ll update you on how I do on Monday’s show!

See you in the morning from 6am

Natalie x

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Wednesday October 27th

So yesterday, I was attempting to be graceful and light footed in my lesson with the English National Ballet. It was a real treat and pretty hard work. The video evidence that I almost got the routine will be here by the end of the week. One of my highlights was when I asked the lady teaching me, if she could use ‘twizzle’ to explain the move rather than the correct ballet terminology! Ha.

The School was situated right by the British Science Museum and the V&A which were of course mobbed as its half term week. Not being a parent I am still struck with absolute admiration for parents who use the tube with a trail of kids. I saw this guy with kids hanging of every limb and one on his back and he still was telling them jokes – albeit with a rather red face! Plus it was a yuk wet day yesterday... don’t get caught out today. Get that brolly in your bag!

So how is half term treating you? Hopefully you’re enjoying having time with the little ones rather than them driving you mad. Are you planning on getting dressed up for Halloween? I love a bit of pumkin pie / soup... etc and of course carving out the faces so will be getting some of that action going on. What about getting dressed up and trick or treating? Have you got a weekend of it? My friend in the US has been asking about suggestions of what she should get dressed up as, they obviously make a much bigger deal about ‘All Hallows Eve’ stateside. I’ve not got any plans to dress up, although I’m tempted to get one of those skeleton outfits that glow in the dark as I’ve always thought they look fab!! If you’re having a do, enjoy. Stu is getting his face painted. Can’t wait to see those pictures!

We’ll be back tomorrow with another chance for you to win a holiday to Thailand. So far top of the leader board is Melissa with the grand score of 18. You need to beat her to be in with a chance. We’ll find out who wins on Friday!

See you tmw from 6am

Natalie x

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Tuesday October 26th
This morning I surprised Natalie with a chance to dance with English National Ballet - who are preparing for Romeo and Juliet at the Milton Keynes theatre! Even as I write this she will be donning her tutu and stretching her leg on the bar as oppose to drinking from it! She will even get to learn the part of Lady Capulet which is actually Juliets mother….obviously a very young mother!!  Keep checking our facebook page  for pics and vids coming soon! Also, become a friend of English National Ballet here

We asked you about your own lifelong ambitions and had loads of great ones including one of you who wanted to appear in a Harry Potter film plus one about parachuting! Speaking as someone who has done a few parachute jumps in my time, I have to say its definitely worth the fear factor as once you are out of the plane it is an amazing feeling! And worse comes to worse - just get someone to give you a quick push. Worked for me!  Not sure I can repeat any of the language I might have used at that point though!

I have just found out I am getting my face painted for Halloween so if you have any suggestions let me know! Current fave is Dracula but I'm not going as a Pumpkin lol!

See you in the morning

Stu x

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Monday October 25th
Hey how was your weekend?! Don’t you love it when you are out and about and spot someone famous? Yesterday I was out having Sunday lunch at a pub in Hertfordshire and in walked supermodel Erin O’Connor! You know the tall one from the M&S ads! We were all desperate to see what a supermodel has for their lunch and we were not disappointed - a bowl of soup which she shared with her boyfriend and a glass of red wine. Meanwhile we all had full roasts and a choccy toblerone mousse for desert. That’s why she is a supermodel and we aren’t!!

Today Natalie revealed she is rubbish at directions so I am getting her a 'Nat nav'! Although I am not known for my sense of direction I am not as bad as the guy I once knew who used to take random lefts and his justification was well you never told me NOT to turn left - but don’t most people assume that you continue straight unless instructed otherwise?! 

We had a strange fashion statement in the studio this morning, producer Josh wore a 'Cheryl/Kylie' hoodie. I wish we had a pic for our facebook page! Adding that to my yellow jeans and Natalie’s yellow doggie jumper…Gok Wan would have a field day with us lot!

Don’t forget to check out our facebook page here . Check out all the latest gossip on the show and find out how you can get involved - and maybe end up on the air!

Tomorrow morning I have a really big surprise for Natalie which will fulfil one of her lifetime ambitions plus we may fulfil yours too by sending you off to Thailand for a weeks holiday!

See you in the morning

Stu x

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Friday 22nd October
It’s Friday, yey… it’s been one of those weeks that started slowly and then Friday arrived so quickly! My slight tan from holiday has pretty much made it’s way down the plughole, although I’ve still got freckles on my face :). The BF is peeling which I find rather entertaining as he refused to wear sun cream on Day 1 of holiday to get a ‘base tan’... which meant he ended up slightly rouge. Although yes he had a much better colour than me, at least I’m not shedding a second skin!

How cold has it been this week? Hopefully you’ve been wrapping up warm, I’ve been doing the tights under leggings already. I keep wondering whether to buy ‘thermal’ items and every time I’m in M&S they just look so unattractive. I pick said items up and put them down again! Any tips on where to buy nice looking thermal undies would be most welcome. As it gets colder it’s definitely a perfect opportunity to sit yourself in a big dark room, with some overpriced popcorn or pick n mix and enjoy a movie.

I went to see 'Despicable Me' last night. It’s a fab animated story of a supervillan named Gru who ends up adopting three orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme.  Thing is they turn him into a big old softy… the littlest girl is SOOO cute! With voices from Steve Carell, Russell Brand and Dame Julie Andrews – this is a right old giggle. You can see it in 3D or 2D, I wasn’t quite in the mood for the specs so chose the latter. I don’t think you miss out, but I could see the bits which would have been brilliant in 3D, so if you are a fan and have already bought those specs (and not lost them) go for the whole experience. I’d give it a 7/10 for laugh out loud ability and definitely one for all the family and I’m sure if you’ve got little ones, they’re going to be demanding you buy them one of those yellow things… they look like dressed up jelly beans! 

If you’re a bride to be and are coming along to The Mansion House this evening, I look forward to meeting you and who know’s maybe you’ll win a wedding!!

We’ll be back on Monday, from 6am

Have a super duper weekend

Natalie x

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Thursday 21st October
Just to bring you up to date with my Yellow jeans….which you voted  as the item I should definitely chuck away when moving home well it turns out I have lost them!  Now I know they are not the most fashionable accessory in the world but they have sentimental value as I wore them on my first TV show…so if you see a person in yellow jeans don’t laugh at them….they’re mine!

I wonder what Phillip Schofield thinks of being voted our top inappropriate crush of choice? It seems the smooth talking silverfox of daytime TV gets your vote and Natalie’s too. Personally, I always thought Gordon the Gopher was the real heartthrob!

A report out today says a third of white van drivers are women now I don’t know about you but I’ve never seen one!  We are currently playing our white van women game asking you to text us when you spot them and already we have had loads! Infact on tomorrow’s show we are going to meet a glamorous posse of white van women drivers who are always tooting at the fellas…..can’t wait!

Make sure you get in touch tomorrow morning with your 3 word weekend and check out our facebook page here  for all the gossip on James Blunt who is on the show tomorrow too!

See you in the morning

x

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Tuesday 19th October

Morning, so it’s day two after a week of holiday! I’m amazed at how I managed to switch off so quickly... maybe a bit too much as my trip into a souk in Marrakech had me spending £70 on a range of spices! Now don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy with them I just didn’t expect the price tag to be so high. You’ve been duped too it seems. June bought a Christmas tablecloth in Turkey for £20 only to find it off Oxford Street for a tenner. She was so annoyed she only used the cloth once and binned it. Emily spent £60 on a necklace in Israel that was meant to bring her luck, but she got ill and her flight was delayed by nine hours! And Stuart went to see a psychic in Beverly Hills who told him he had a ‘bad aura’ and asked him for £300 to get rid of it… he actually walked out.. so wasn’t quite so gullible. Although he did say his holiday went a bit wrong after that!

The worst thing about coming back from holiday, other than the washing is the Holiday Blues… so here’s a piccie of the lovely pool in the beautiful hidden hideaway called ‘Baoussala’ in Essaouira, where we stayed. You have my permission to use it to daydream, especially as it’s now getting colder outside!!

See you tmw at 6

Natalie x

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Friday 8th October
We’re off on Holiday next week….Natalie is all packed, tanned up and ready for her week in Morocco…meanwhile I still have no idea where I am going!  All I know is I have been told to pack a bag….it’s like taking part in one of those reality tv shows….luckily I am one of those people who is used to packing and unpacking in a hurry and I know how to travel light!  I wonder how many cases Natalie will be taking?

It was Natalie’s birthday today and during the Time Tunnel her boyfriend surprised her with the biggest birthday card ever and a Tiffany bracelet!  Hang on to him Natalie they’ll all want him!  I,ve suggested she chains him to her bike when she’s not using him lol!  It’s for the best!

Matt Jarvis will be here all next week whilst we are away and when we return on Monday 18 October we have an amazing holiday to somewhere really exotic to give away!

Have a great time whilst we are away and remember to get in touch when we return and tell us everything we missed out on!

S&N x

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Thursday 7th October

Morning, thanks for the childlike behaviour that you shared today. With me turning 33 tomorrow and still really not feeling like a grown up, we were keen to hear what you do to feel young! Yesterday I was cycling my little folded bike down a hill in Luton with my legs a kimbo squealing… and grinning! We loved Claire in Beeston’s tale about her and her Ma and their fleece adult baby grows. One cold March whilst camping and after few too many beers, the pair of them decided to play in the camps park. So there was both Claire and her Mum, on sprung wooden chickens, in baby grows, at 1am pretending to be Teletubbies!

A man who is definitely a fan of childish antics is of course Mr Russell Brand, who was on the show today. He’s been throwing his hand to a bit of Shakespeare – yes believe it or not, he’s going to be in The Tempest, alongside Dame Helen Mirren. She has been praising his acting skills and you can check out the trailer right here !

Yesterday a beautician friend of mine gave me a St Tropez spray tan, which I must say is the most intimate I’ve been with another woman! It was much more fun and less of an ordeal though, than standing in front of a complete stranger and the results are pretty good, although the boss just came in and told me I was glowing!

So tomorrow is our last day before a week’s holiday and the last day for any more pounds to disappear off my body, before having to get my bikini on, in front of the new boyfriend. I was at the gym yesterday making loud noises whilst squatting, in the hope that might burn more calories! Obviously the anti-cellulite massive pants I’ve been wearing for the last month haven’t made any difference, I don’t think. Though I’m meant to measure my inches which I haven’t been able to bring myself to do... The latest thing I’ve been sent is instant boob job cream, so I’ll be starting my application whilst I’m away and will report back. Stuart asked whether he could use it on his biceps, not sure I want to share! But we’ll see... If any of these miracle cures help – I will of course be sharing the knowledge as we all love a cheat don’t we! 

We’ll be back tomorrow from 6am, finding out your weekend in 3 words and if there’s anything your up to for the first time ( I’ll also be looking another year older – thank goodness its radio!) 

See you then

Natalie x

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Wednesday 6th October
Happy Hump Day! It's mid week and the worst is over. Today on the show you were giving us suggestions on holidays for Stuart, as Natalie is jetting off to Morocco at the weekend, and typically disorganised Stu has arranged nothing. Our absolute favourite was from Jeanette, she suggested 'Sandy Balls'. It is infact a resort in New Forrest, but you can imagine our surprise when that suggestion came through!

All next week Matt Jarvis will be looking after you on Heart Breakfast, and I, am not going anywhere either. I'll be hard at work just like you when S&N are sunning themselves abroad. Boo! I do have a day off this week though, tomorrow afternoon I'm travelling up north as my friend has been nominated for 'PA of the Year'. I've been a PA before, and it is such hard work. I'll be cheering on whoever wins as I like to see such demanding roles get recognised. Friday I'm back down here and heading into the big smoke to visit friends, though I'll be staying well away from the shops on this visit. My credit card bill this month made my jaw hit the floor! It's all the Madonna and Lady GaGa tickets I've been splashing out on (not to mention the outfits!).

Before S&N go though, we still have more chances for you to win dinner for 10 at one of the fabulous Destination Dining restaurants in the Centre MK. Well done to Jane for winning today!

Right, I'm off to sulk because I'm not flying off on holiday, but we'll be back tomorrow when you wake up!

Producer A x

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Tuesday 5th October
It seems that our school reports sometimes get it right!! Natalie found out that incredibly Ed Milliband's partner went to the same school as her and was described as “academically gifted and well heeled”, meanwhile Natalie was described as “always chatting and never paid attention”. Understandably she was a bit miffed but they certainly got the chatty bit right! As for mine it said I always used to daydream and drift off……sorry lost interest there for a moment….must move on!

Jamie Oliver was chatting on the show this morning I never realised his kids had such ridiculous names!  Buddy Bear is the latest along with Poppy Honey, Daisy Boo and Petal Blossom…everytime Jamie comes home Jules tells him what the kids have been up to and it must sound like a fairytale……Buddy Bear went to the woods and Poppy Honey fell over…how fab!!!   They are very cute names and what else would you expect from a man who calls himself the naked chef but isn’t actually naked?

Well I am off out to buy the latest invention for students - a washing machine that emails you when it’s finished its load! I don’t know about you but I am always forgetting about it…and I want to know what it says on the email? 'FROM: WASHING MACHINE' lol!!   On second thoughts, I’ll just stick to my usual and save a fortune!

Have a great day

See you in the morning

Stu xx

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Friday 1st October
It’s Friday – yey! How did we get to October so quickly? It’s my birthday in a week... I may mention this several times. I get all excited about birthdays whilst also feeling slightly freaked out by the fact that despite now heading to my mid 30’s, I still don’t fell that grown up! Anyway, tonight the party starts as it’s my Little Black Dress party in Dunstable. I hope you’re coming along, as it’s a rubbish day today, so a party tonight will definitely get your weekend starting the right way.

Last night I thought I’d try on the dress I had in mind to wear and then found another black dress (the Galaxy – remember that one) I’d forgotten about it, as an ex bought it for me... and despite being gorgeous, it’s now a bit big and memory filled! Anyway, I was trying it on as Stuart got back to the house last night so I was caught in the act. But in true Gok style he insisted on a fashion show. This was the point I realised I had a number of options – how exciting... I mean how often does a bloke offer to watch your fashion show and actually give opinions. But he did just that! There was quite a cross section to choose from, an All Saints number, with all sorts of sticky out bits and a snug fitting Charleston style number... a cocktail dress… he was pretty patient! But he picked the one he liked and gave me his reasons, so Stuart is officially Gok Miles now. I’m happy to lend him out, if you need any clothing advice. He’s very good! 

If you’re coming to my LBD party later, can’t wait to meet you – it will be lots of fun.  (not sure whether we’re still asking people to register, so check)

See you tonight you Glamour Pusses, if not – have a delicious weekend

Natalie x

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Thursday September 30th
Morning, hope your day is going well? It's Thursday, the weekend is so close!

Today on the show Stu and Nat had you finishing this sentence... "I love my partner, but I wish they wouldn't..." We had some hilarious ones, my personal favourite was from Chris who responded with "wait til we gets to the car before she starts looking for the keys in the canvas sack she calls a handbag". Ha! Why don't men understand it takes more than a wallet in your pocket to stay organised as a female?

We are a little bit sad on Heart Breakfast today as our newsreader, and favourite 'fountain of knowledge' Richard Purvis is leaving us. We had a team dinner last night to say goodbye, and I did the shortest speech in the world to prevent myself from sobbing in full view of the entire restaurant. Whilst this was happeneing Natalie was busy trying to avoid being whacked by the biggest pepper grinder in the world. (Pic included!) We will miss Rich loads though and wish him lots of luck!

If you haven't already, it's your last chance to register and join us tomorrow night at Natalie's LBD party! It's at Cookies & Cream in Dunstable, a chance to glam up and have a cocktail with us - there's even little Heart goody bags for you. Although it's strictly one for us girls, Stuart, and Club Classics' Steve Denyer will be sneaking in for a gossip! Click here to get you and your friends on the guestlist.

Have a wonderful Thursday - we'll see you tomorrow!

Producer A x

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Wenesday September 29th
Hey hope your Wednesday is going great - especially for any pampered pet owners who might be reading this! Nellie my Bulldog was washed in Aveda hair products the other day and I thought that might be a bit much as I expect she will turn her nose up at the regular anti fungal shampoo from now on and miss the smell of Ylang Ylang!

We heard from loads of you and some of my favourites were the cat that only ate trifle, the rat that was given coffee and biscuits and the lamb who shared the bedroom! Plus not forgetting the guinea pig that uses frizz ease to cure its frizzy coat,  what with that and the pampered pygmy hedgehogs you’re all mad - and I love it!!

Spare a thought for those poor partners though who get shoved out of the bed in favour of the family pet!

I made sushi last night for the first time, well, I say made…more like tried to make the shapes right with the rice which kept sticking to my hands!  Luckily my mate Mark was on hand who knew what he was doing whilst myself and Producer Arianne made something that looked like a 5 year old had made it…..sushi mis-shapes we called them!! (Picture attached - we were responsible for the prawns on the long white plate).

Must go, am off to say goodbye to our newsreader Richard Purves tonight who is moving on from Heart so all the best Rich we will miss you and your black coffee with the contents of the sugar mountain in it!

See you in the morning

Stu x

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Tuesday September 28th

Aah this morning you told us about the toys you couldn’t give up, as we revealed the top toys of the last 25 years. 44 year old Shairead in Towcester blew everyone out the water with her list of stuffed toys that she keeps on a shelf in her bedroom! There’s Horlix the Duck, Fluffy the Bear, Hovis the Sharpei, Odd-Sox the Bear, Mr Kips the Tiger and her favourite is Minty - a massive polar bear, who has his own room as he’s 5ft 6" tall! Impressive hey?

So, yesterday I went and donated a pint of my finest red stuff as I’ve finally managed to shake my cold and I’ve been meaning to get round to it for ages. Giving blood is something that I think we often overlook and it so doesn’t take very long. I was slightly eeked by the girl opposite who gave her date of birth as being in 1992! The girl had come from school and it was the first time she donated and she was really proud of herself! It just goes to show that we should all get involved. I put a message on my facebook last night about what I’d done and a friend of friend told me her dad was battling Leukaemia and he needed two pints of donated blood each week - and she thanked me for what I’d done. WOW!
Not at all why I did it, but I do think it’s a really important thing to think about, and if you can do it – why not? Click here if you are interested. I've included a pic of myself having just donated a pint of my finest!
   
BTW Ladies - you’ve still got time today to register for my LBD party happening this Friday, what are you waiting for??

Nat x

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Friday September 24th

Here we go! Had loads of fun this morning with a story from Sweden that says due to hand written voting papers some people have been making ridiculous voting decisions like Donald Duck lol!

Can you imagine how much fun it would be if we had the same system until we got the result and discovered that Mr Blobby was the new Prime Minister!! Natalie would love it if Gok Wan became Prime Minister, but seriously I have my doubts….it might be the clothes dictatorship according to Gok Wan…you shall wear this and not this!

I vote Susan Boyle - she can sing her policy and with all those YouTube voters on her side how could she fail? However, as Producer Arianne has just pointed out if she didn’t get her own way she would probably end up throwing a tantrum - Bless her!

Loving your 3 word weekends, especially Jo who said “Oh My GOD” as she just found out she was expecting twins!!  I hope your weekend is full of nice surprises…I am off to celebrate a friends birthday this weekend I plan to eat loads so someone can wheel barrow me into the studio on Monday!!

Have a good one…catch you Monday from 6.

Stu x

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Thursday September 23rd

What a funny show today – we had a real battle of the sexes going on about who’s the better cook, Men or Women!?! Gordon Ramsay had made some ridiculous comment about women not being able to cook to save their lives, yeah right! So we asked you, and whilst yes there are a number of women who tend to burn everything the majority of us get by. I’m not a bad cook, but my bloke has proved to be much better and loves cooking, so I’m happy to step aside and let him wow my taste buds. It seems there’s a number of budding chefs in the Home Counties, although guys, be honest – you do like to milk it don’t you! Dean was showing off comparing wmen’s coooking to Maccy D’s, now really! Jeff told us his ex used the smoke alarm as a timer. Then we had Katrina telling us about her hubby using a load of parsely in a dish instead of spinach, oh how the tales made us laugh.

So the weather eh! Well, our Indian summer seems to have passed before we had a chance to peel off our layers for too long. Get your brolly’s out as the weather doesn't look like it is going to be getting better over the next few days, still gives me yet another reason to catch up on the telly. Spooks is back YEY! Missing Ros, but good old Harry and i can’t wait to see where the series goes. So Ros had jumped over to ITV, did you watch Bouquet of Barbed Wire, which finished on Monday night on ITV1? Hermione Norris played an interesting character in this very bizarre and twisted drama. I really wasn’t sure what to make of it but a gripping watch. Anyway, it’s almost Friday hoorah! September is flying by it’s almost my birthday month! Ha.. first mention on the blog. If you’d like a night out though sign up for my LBD party on 1st October for details click here

See you tomorrow from 6
Natalie x

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Wednesday September 22nd

Are you Blonde? Does this mean you have more ditzy moments?  Personally I don’t think it matters what colour your hair is we all have those moments where we feel like a right fool!  You sent us yours this morning and one of my faves was the girl who wanted to watch her car mileometre change from 69,999 to 70,000 so she pulled over in the layby to watch it lol!  I wander how long she sat there waiting from something to happen!

Natalie managed to lock me out the other night and slept through my constant banging on the door thanks to cold remedy and strong earplugs!  As for me well I have had so many including the time I was on the phone to my mate and as I was chatting to him he kept hearing all this banging and crashing, he then asked me 'What are you doing' I replied 'I can’t believe this I have mislaid my mobile phone and I am looking everywhere…” he responded with 'you’re on it you ditzo' - Oh yeah!

Today I learnt all about Cankles, apparently it’s when your calve and your ankle are one. I had never heard of this before.  Apparently women are having surgery to slim down in order to squeeze into thigh high boots so I came up with the idea of a Cankle-ectomy! Who knows it might catch on amongst those Harley Street Plastic surgeons!

Have a great day and enjoy the sun!
Stu x

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Tuesday September 21st
Good Morning! We seem to be having an Indian Summer, which is lovely but isn’t it causing clothing confusion? I’ve seen everything from flip flops to fur lined boots whilst I’ve been out and about. The trick is to wear layers at the mo, so you’re covered for every eventuality! I’m still carrying my brolly in my bag... not put my gloves in yet, although I did chuck in a woolly hat the other day, just in case!

So we picked the finalists for our 'Win a Wedding' competition over the weekend and all we need now is for you to vote for your favourite couple and by doing so, you could win a romantic weekend away. Click here to see our lovely couples.  This afternoon I’m meeting my friend who is getting married next May, we’re going to her dress fitting! I can’t help but feel like I should take a bag of peanut M&M’s, like in Pretty Woman, that scene with Kit and Viv – in the changing room… and Julia Roberts comes out looking all gorgeous and Kit gets all choked up… I know it doesn’t include a wedding dress, but I think I’ll get emotional and despite being on a bikini diet… I may need chocolate.

Oh yeah, I must tell you about my latest fad diet that I’m trying in the count down to my holiday.. Yes I’m still wearing my anti-cellulite big pants, although I’d cleverly left them in the back of the BF’s car all last week, so my experiment went slightly off kilter, that and a week of not going to the gym due to a cold. So I’m on a mission from today, giving the Dukan Diet a go. This is apparently the secret to why French women look so good. No they don’t just smoke ciggie and drink coffee – apparently they eat a lot of protein! So this diet is a bit like the Atkins at first, with a few days of meat, fish, eggs – but then you can mix it up a bit. I made one of the recipes last night for muffins... made from egg whites, fromage frais and some bran. I bought them in for the show and whilst they looked pretty good – I can tell you they tasted of pretty much nothing! Stuart tuned his nose up! I’m not giving up though, I reckon I can add some more cinnamon or vanilla and if this fad helps shift a few pounds in the next few weeks, I’ll be a happy girl. Oh and another incentive to loose the pounds, is my Little Black Dress party – you MUST register so can come along and have a girls night out with me – looking gorgeous in your LBD! I'd love to see you, so register here .

Have a great day – make sure you get out in the sunshine if you can!

Ta Ta for now

Natalie B x

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Monday September 20th
So what a weekend we had at Hertfordshire’s Got Talent - you can check out my chat with Jedward on the breakfast pages here .  I thought they would do anything for publicity, but they revealed during a game of Jedwould or Jedwouldn’t that they won’t be posing naked like Olly Murs if their next single went to No.1. Personally I am quite relieved but they admitted they would do a cover of Humpty Dumpty if asked…so you have been warned!

Everyone has been asking me what they are really like and I have to say I thought they were fab and not as stupid as people make out. Well, that was until I heard they were off to LA the next day and asked their manager whether they needed a passport…doh!!

We were chatting today about how you might have embarrassed yourself infront of celebs and my favourite was from Dawn who met Simon Cowell and was so excited she felt the strange need to stroke his hair!  She's lucky she didn’t end up glued to it!

Natalie had a busy weekend eating sushi off a semi naked man (has she never heard of Yo Sushi?!!) It was all part of her friends Hen Night celebrations and having seen the pics all I can say is, rather him than me….careful where you put that wasabi it’s hot you know!

See you in the morning

Stu x

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Wednesday 15th September

I hope you are having a good week? It's hump day, so we are officially over the worst of it! Today on the show we were talking WEDDINGS. You had some brilliant stories for us, and once again the conversation turned to GaGa's meat dress. It's causing quite the stir isn't it? What do you think of it? If you havent already, click here for your last chance to win a wedding!

Today I had the pleasure of watching Natalie, film Matt Jarvis and Stuart throw some shapes - whilst practising dance moves. Wich of course she filmed for your viewing pleasure. More on that tomorrow on the show - believe me, you do NOT want to miss it!

We also have Chessington World of Adventures tickets to give away on Text in the Blank, and Heart CDs on Play Your Birthday Cards Right .

See ya tomorrow!

Producer x

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Tuesday 14th September

How’s your Tuesday going? Apologies if you are terrified of spiders, but we couldn’t resist the story about Selbourne Road in Luton being named the most spider-rific street in the UK! If you want some tips to get rid of our 8 legged friend, have a look here . I've spent the morning working my way through a loo roll and inhaling various menthol sticks to try and combat the end of summer cold I seem to have caught. Last one I had was at Christmas, so not bad going me thinks. Yesterday, I did what I was told and spent the afternoon in bed, which I’m really not good at... but what a great excuse to catch up on missed TV! I couldn’t resist Aunty Gok helping us ‘Look Good Naked’ ooh and one of my fave guilty pleasures in Ugly Betty… but the taming down of her outfits isn’t quite sitting well with me. She looks lovely, but I liked the crazy outfits (yes I own a poncho). The last episode did have her in a hot dog outfit though – bless her!

I took a delivery of my winter wardrobe the other day – sounds glam, but it involved my mate dropping off a load of space bags from my parents garage. Still, I took great pleasure in getting out my jumpers and coats. I love getting wrapped up for winter, although there’s this one coat I own which was a complete bargain from a vintage shop in Manchester. It cost me £10 a few years ago, but it’s falling apart and smells ever so slightly of moth balls. How does that happen when I’ve never owned moth balls? My dilemma is - do I pay to have a new lining put in a coat which will probably cost more than the item itself? or do I accept that I’m too old to have clothes with holes, that need repairing?! Or should I feel ‘saving the world savvy’ as I’m recycling much loved items rather than spending more pennies??

We’re back tomorrow, finding out the hilarious wedding stories you’ve experienced… from bridezillas to bridesmaid strops – we’d love to hear from you.

Enjoy the rest of your day

Natalie x

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Monday 13th September
I hope you enjoyed the Heroes Concert as much as us - there were so many amazing moments, but one that sticks out for me was when impressionist Deborah Stephenson went on stage doing an amazingly accurate impression of Davina McCall!   Unfortunately I don’t think Prince Harry actually got the joke as everytime they cut to him he looked so unimpressed lol! His face said "who is this mad woman, is she for real? come on lets get with the show"! 

Producer x

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Wednesday 8th September
Morning, hope your Wednesday is going OK. My shoulders have been gradually seizing up all morning, after I was caught out at my body pump class last night. I’ve joined a new gym and am still getting to grips with the ‘gym class etiquette’. Seriously. I did a 30 min abs class before my ‘pump’ started - I’m not showing off, I’m just trying to shock my body as I’ve got to wear a bikini in a month! I noticed as I went into it, that the studio next door to where my abs class was had the body pump items all laid out. I thought it was the teacher being helpful. I didn’t realise when I got in, that the eager beavers doing the class with me had already got their stuff set up... I tried to claim a step and weights, but a lady came over to me loudly claiming it as hers – oops! As I looked at the very busy room I realised there was hardly any equipment to use. Then I got outed for ‘NOT BEING ON THE LIST’ and had to improvise with weights that were a bit too heavy... hence the stiff shoulders!Have you got into trouble at the gym? The other thing I’m trying to suss is the best tact to make some gym buddies. You may think – just chat to people, but I think there’s an art to it… I’m currently feeling like the new girl in class and want to get it right, so any tips on finding them, do let me know!

Today’s show made me laugh with Stuart moaning about the rubbish stuff he’s won – he got a tin of beans in a tombola and an egg ring, which I quite liked the sound of! It seems the Tombola is the guilty culprit for most of our rubbish winnings with all sorts of tinned food being won and poor Jackie won the noodles she had actually donated! Surely we can do better than this? I think we should start showing the Tombola a bit of love and glam up the prizes.

I was also getting over excited about our Text in the Blank today as it was Jeff Goldblum who I think has such a dreamy voice and he will be on Heart Breakfast tomorrow. Tonight I’m getting to see another man with a dreamy spoken voice… Huey Morgan from The Fun Lovin Criminals as they’re on at The Albans Arena – woo hoo!

We’re back in the morning, finding out about your embarrassing supermarket tales. I dropped a bottle of pear cider the other day and didn’t know what to do, whether I should pay for it or just stand looking guilty - which is just what I did as the supermarket man tutted at me and put a big yellow sign saying 'DANGER' around it and trotted off to get his mop!

See you in the morning from 6

Natalie x

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Tuesday 7th September
Well who would have thought it? An engagement ring for £15 from Tesco and it certainly divided opinion. Natalie and Ashleigh both thougt that was unacceptable….personally what worries me is where will it all end? You know, they also do a wedding ring at the same price…..what as a BOGOF?! You may aswell go the whole hog and get married in Tesco. Lets face it, you have plenty of aisles to choose from! Personally, I would choose the fruit and veg aisle and you could just put the family you don’t like in the frozen food section. As for the reception  - well they always have the food bargains at the end of the aisle don't they? Best leave that one there I think.

All week we are helping you out with our guide to going back to school and today we talked dinner ladies with moustaches.  Well, Natalie’s did actually have facial hair and was called Mrs Bush…..you couldn’t write about it could you! My favourite school dinner was apple crumble and custard, Natalie says she loved the Cornflake Tart…..I think I remember going to school with her too…LOL!

Have a great day and see you in the morning!!
Stu
xx

P.S I resisted the urge to comment on yesterdays comment from Producer  Arianne to ‘man up’……but I shall ask her for some tips! 

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Monday 6th September
It's Back to School week! We are LOVING your cute pictures, had quite a few so far for our Class of 2010 and if you would like to show off your little one in their brand new uniform then click here to find out how! (This is little Amy Doe all excited for her first day back).
We also launched our brand new game - Play Your Birthday Cards Right - Sophie played today and won 6 brand new Heart CDs, if you fancy kicking off your Birthday by having a go then register to play here .

So, I hope you had a great weekend, I attended the wedding of one of our engineers here - they are a rowdy lot radio engineers I can tell you! Stuart spent the weekend getting some serious R&R as he was feeling a bit under the weather - fortunately I pursuaded him to 'man up' in time for todays show. Natalie also attended a wedding....the wedding of her potential new Brother-in-law! (I am going to get a serious telling off for writing that - probably bigger than the one I got for using a photo of her big hair on my last blog entry....oh well!) She was proudly showing me the snap of herself and her new BF in their smart outfits. (That's another telling off).

Anyway, tomorrow we want to know, when have you have gotten away with being a cheapskate? My favourite trick is to "chip in" on gifts that are lovely - but split 3-5 ways so not as pricey! You get a delighted face at the end of it when your friend opens their expensive gift - I'd take that over a generic voucher anyday!

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Producer x

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Friday 3rd September

Hey…how much do we love these 4 day weeks and judging from your 3 word weekends you are cramming loads into the weekend. My fave was one from Dianna from Milton Keynes whose 3 word weekend was” pole dancing competition!”   Sadly I can’t enter being a fella but apparently she wasn’t bothered by that fact and was more interested in how long my legs were, apparently that's what makes you a champion so why don’t you get practicing on the clothes rail!

Don’t forget our Heart Breakfast class of 2010 it’s a real chance to show off your kids on their first day back at school. Personally I am loving the girl with the beautifully brushed curly hair who looks just like Natalie B… yes it’s definitely her, but she hates it and I keep expecting to turn up and find a really dodgy one of me up there. So far I have escaped it but check out our very own Matt Jarvis at just 4 years old….he looks just  like Little Lord Fauntleroy lol!!

I'm hoping to see that movie Piranha 3d this weekend it’s supposed to be a comedy and stars Kelly Brook. I hope I am not laughing for the wrong reasons. The weather is gonna be fab too so I hope you get a chance to get out and about and enjoy the sun…could be a chance to dust down the bbq for the final time!

Whatever you are up to this weekend have a great time and we’ll see you Monday when you wake up!
Byeee
Stu x

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Wednesday 1st September
Morning! You're chat up lines have been brilliant this morning....we've put together our favourite's, check them out here .

So yesterday I had my barnet cut... which is a very particular operation believe me! It happens about 2 /3 times a year and I’m very specific in what I want doing and how it’s done (see photo for evidence of when it's not quite right!). Luckily I go to see a friend of mine and she actually listens. How many times have you been to the hairdresser and been so intimidated by what they are saying or how awful your reflection is? OK so a fancy salon with a nice head massage is a treat, but I had more fun marvelling at how she honestly told me I didn’t need a full head of highlights and we just needed to do a few bits. Phew – how boring is it sitting in foils? Even if it is a good excuse to read a magazine! I skipped out of there, all happy with my ‘do’ rather than desperate to get home and re-do it myself. So next time you’re sat in the chair at the hairdresser not happy with what they’re doing.. speak up… it’s so much more fun!

Last night me and the BF booked a holiday, for October... which means the serious training sessions and diet are on! I’ve got 5/6 weeks till I have to 'dare to bare'. Whilst I’m all up for slogging it out in the gym I also welcome any help I can get – and received an interesting package in the post the other day which I’ll tell you about tomorrow...

We’re asking you how far you’ve gone to look good – so I look forward to hearing whether you are as shameless as me!

Contact the show by emailing us here , facebook us here , or call us on 0845 810 077 between 6-10am.

See you in the morning!

Natalie x

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Tuesday 31st August
Good Morning! It's Stuart & Natalie's producer here....so, after I had to drag Natalie kicking and screaming away from Robbie's used water bottle last week - today on the show they announced that Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow will be performing their new track 'Shame' for the first time at the Heroes Concert on September 12th. As well as Robbie & Gary, Alexandra Burke, Pixie Lott, James Blunt and Enrique are in the line up - and some top comedians such as Peter Kay will be performing too. The even more exciting news, is that YOU could be there! Click here to find out how.

Tomorrow we are asking for cheesy chat up lines...I can't even tell you how embarrassed I was by some of the lines Stuart and Natalie came up with. They wouldn't win me over I can tell you that now!

I reckon you can do better, so if you have a cheesy chat up line email us here , facebook us here , or call us on 0845 810 077 during the show. Go on, chat us up! We love hearing from you.

See you from 6

Producer x

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Thursday August 26th

    Did you hear Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow’s amazing new single called ‘Shame’ this morning….it’s been almost 15 years since they recorded together…incredible!!

Personally I am just as excited by the comeback of the Wombles which was also announced today lol! Well it was the first album I bought when I was just 6….all those classics like ‘Remember you’re a Womble’ and apparently they are getting together to make another album…I am not sure if I will be rushing out to buy this one though!! You can’t beat a bit of Madam Cholet though…….. what a temptress!

Loved hearing all your embarrassing text stories…you know the one where you really slag off the mate you are meeting later and then accidently send it to them….doh!! My favourite has to be the girl who text her friend to tell her how she was going to dump her boyfriend but sent it to him instead…ouch!!

There is a new survey out revealing the jobs that celebrities would do if they weren’t famous like Susan Boyle being a Dinner Lady….well she’s got the look!  We asked you about Lady Gaga and personally I think she’d make a great dustman…..as she would use the bin bags to make an outfit…..a real Bag Lady!  
Must stop this now as I have to tell Natallie to stop hanging around the studio waiting for Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams to pop up on Toby’s show!!  I may hang around to to see who is the fattest…..haha just kidding…..have a fab day!

See you in the morning!!
Stu xx

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Wednesday August 25th
What a show today, we had the birthday girl Alexandra Burke on the show! if you missed it you can hear the interview here .

Apparently, if you look at a wasps face, you can tell whether it’s angry...LIKELY! I hate wasps and you will often see me flinching or hear me squealing when one comes near me. Scientists have said that the more black spots, the more ferocious. No chance I'll be testing that theory - just running for the hills!! 

Now for a little mid-week rant from me - the BF and I went for a bite to eat in St Albans, to a place that was named St Albans  best restaurant 2010. We went early due to my curfew, and it was pretty empty when we arrived. We were sat in the window so we could be seen by any hungry passers by - fair enough! Then they did that really annoying thing when a table of four came in and sat them right next to us, despite there being plenty of space, which I know is to tempt people in - but the table was really close to ours and then the waitress stood in between the two tables and I had her derrier in my face! The food was nice, but the experience slightly hampered by their seating decisions! Rant over…

Stuart has signed up for a new dating website that’s just launched. It’s for ugly people. We’ll see how he does - he’s already been invited to a ball! Check it out here .

We’ll be back tomorrow giving you another chance to win a family pass to Chessington World of Adventures on Text in the Blank which we play each morning at 6.30am.

See you then

S&N x

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Monday August 23rd

Stuart and I spent most of our weekend in Milton Keynes, I was at MKT Raw on Friday night, and then we were in Campbell Park across the weekend showing free films. The sun made it out on Sunday, which was lovely! If you or anybody you know came along - thanks for joining us and you can see all the pics here .

On Saturday night (whilst Stuart got stuck into some X-Factor action) I was checking out the beer festival in St Albans and enjoyed some rather delicious home brewed ales. The new BF was on a bit of a mission to try the wall of beers and got very drunk -  the first time I’ve seen him that sozzelled and it was VERY entertaining! Are there amusing things your partner does when they’re slightly worse for wear?

Also we got to see a brilliant rhythm and blues band called Elephant Shelf, who were defying the noise police by playing outside in the pub’s beer garden until gone midnight! We felt very rebellious! We moved on from one beer garden where we were almost locked out! Why do we do that here in Blighty? Please let us sit in our beer gardens whilst we still can!

Tomorrow we want to know the phrases or words that are overused and annoy you, so let us know here .

We’ll see you in the morning from 6am

S&N x

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Friday 20th August
Today it was all about your 3 word weekend  - mine is 'Street Dance MK' as tonight I’ll be at the Milton Keynes theatre hosting the MKT Raw. If you’re going down to see this amazing show – I’ll see you there.  Stuart’s 3 word weekend is 'X-Factor Films Shopping' his date with the X-factor is going to be slightly interrupted though, as the pair of us will be seeing you in Campbell Park in Milton Keynes over the weekend! There are some great family films showing – have a look at the line up here .

Yesterday I met two more of my neighbours, one of them had taken delivery of my BT broadband kit (finally we’re connected to the world!). He seemed very nice and explained that he and his wife were sitting in their car outside my house, because their kiddies were fast asleep in the car. Something you may have relished during the numerous trips over the summer holidays! Then I met my next door neighbour, who was gardening and we had a great ol chat! St Albans is definitely more friendly than London in the neighbours sense. I only met one neighbour when I lived there… she was a bit mad and not too friendly!

Did you know, most of us mistrust our neighbours, saying they’re nosey? We however, want to celebrate our neighbours… as we know ‘Everybody needs good neighbours’ (sorry). So if you have something good to say about yours, let us know by sending us a quick email here . 

We’re back on Monday from 6am – have a fabulous weekend!

S&N x

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Wednesday 19th August
It’s A level results day! Stuart and I are sending you lots of luck, whether it’s you or someone in your family getting THAT envelope. Both Stuart and I didn’t get the results we wanted - in fact my mum was furious with me! I spent the day at the pub with my mates... I did get into Uni through clearing and despite somewhat difficult conversations with my parents it all worked out in the end. So, don’t let it cause you too much stress! There are always options. You can post good luck messages and check out celeb academics on our A Level Results page here .

Stuart was squealing in the studio with the news that ‘super rat’s’ have been spotted in the UK… one with a 30 inch tail! Claire got in touch and told us she has the worst fear of clowns and that she actually bit her dad once because he tried to take her over to meet one. She was 15 at the time, so it was a little embarrassing. Clowns are just evil!

We also celebrated the fact it was Madonna's 52nd Birthday this week (she looks AMAZING!) by listening to her story. Listen for yourself here .

Tomorrow it’s all about your three word weekend so we’ll see you in the morning from 6am

S&N x 

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Tuesday August 17th
I was quite proud of myself this weekend as I did my first bit of gardening, in my own garden. My folks had come to visit (they have an amazing garden and know all the latin names) and as my Mum pointed out what I had in my garden, whilst chattering away in latin – I wondered whether you ever get to an age where that kind of information actually sticks? Still, I planted stuff on Sunday. I can’t remember what she gave me but I did remember to put the Hydrangers in a triangle! Did you know Sarah Harding and her boyfriend are really getting into their gardening. They live just near Aylesbury and have been likened to Tom and Barbara in The Good Life. I’m following her lead! Sadly my first attempt at mowing my lawn was hampered by the mower not working. I tried various plug sockets but nada… I asked Stuart – the man of the house - who told me that the grass would stop growing in a few weeks time. Is that true? I believed him…

Now then, in the show today we revealed that more and more Brits are taking their teddy bears to bed. Stuart still has Big Ted hidden behind his bed, who was his first port of call when planning to run away from home, although Big Ted always talked him out of it. Natalie has brown ted and blue ted in a box – so not really enough love there. We had one of you text and tell us that you had got a passport especially for your teddy to take it away with you… Really?? Do click here and have a look at the list of favourite kids TV theme tunes we’ve put up, along with your favourites! We had such a trip down memory lane today.

We’ll be back from 6am finding out whether it makes you angry if your partner eyes up a member of the opposite sex, when you’re out with them!!

See you in the morning

S&N x

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Friday August 13th
Last night I went to see an amazing tango show – Tanguera at Saddlers Wells in London. It was such an amazing show, with arms and legs being flung around. I was with two of my girlfriends, one who is about to take up ballet classes, although it’s been 18 years since she last wore a tutu and she was saying how there’s something not right about having to wear an extra large leotard! I say good luck to her. We were talking about dance classes and getting your other half involved. Did you know that couples are apparently spending up to £250 on classes, especially if there’s a wedding dance to be done! Have you tried to get your fella to dance? I’d be keen to find out!

On the show today, we were hearing about your three word weekend, which always has us in fits of laughter. Virgill is getting his mates round, they’re stripping to their pants, having some beers and then wrestling.. I don’t quite know what to make of that. I think he’s single though! Stuart is spending his weekend giving his dog Nellie some loving as she’s been looking a bit sad this week. I’ve been having some girl talk with her (we live together) but she wants the wisdom of her Daddy. Andrew emailed the show to tell us just that – that you must talk often to your pets, and treat them as if they are one of the family. We know that could mean no talking considering the way some families get on!!

Anna also had us in hysterics as she’s spending the weekend having a picnic with her mates and over 200 sheep… slightly baarmy!!  (Sorry couldn’t resist!) 

So, on Monday’s we’re finding out what you can’t live without – do let us know and in the meantime have a super duper weekend.

See you then from 6am

S&N

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Thursday August 12th
Today’s show was hilarious with you telling us the TV characters that scared you as a kid, do have a look at them all on the breakfast pages as there’s was such a range from the Child Catcher in Chitty Bang Bang to the Wombles! Rachel grew up terrified of them, but now has Orinocco in her bed!! Mine was Evil Edna from Willo the Wisp...

Yesterday I went to London to interview The Wanted the latest boy band sensation and what a lovely group of lads they were. Tom is the cocky one of the group, Jay’s the sensible one, Max is the charmer, Nathan is the one yet to speak up and Siva.. well he’s definitely the dark horse of the group, with that irish accent and olive skin..and Rhianna has already ‘got his number’!! Have a listen to me chatting with the boys here . It’s been a crazy time for them as they have been together since last year doing lots of gigs and promotion, then in a matter of two weeks – they hit the big time! So we hope it continues.

The weather continues to try to try and outwit us, and whilst we’re still not sure whether or not to brave the elements wearing our flip flops or to bother taking a brolly - at least it’s almost the weekend. Tomorrow we’re asking for what you’re doing in three words so do let us know.

See you tomorrow at 6am

S&N x

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Tuesday August 10th
Summer came back yesterday afternoon didn’t it? I was sunbathing in my garden with Stuart’s dog Nellie, who is such a sun worshipper, I’ve never seen a dog get ‘out there’ so quick and literally assume the pose! Pictures will have to follow. It’s now a rainy Tuesday and I’m so pleased I left my washing out, that was a smart move. Hopefully the wet weather plans for the kids are in place. I was planning to get out on my bike today, explore my new abode on flashy wheels rather than the little shopper I went out on the other day, which rattles a little too loud. Good cycle routes in St Albans, I’m impressed. Watch this space for more from Curls on Wheels!

This morning our new game Text in the Blank was with the Sugababes and Amy won a family pass to Chessington World of Adventures. Tomorrow we’ve got Alan Carr helping us out, so if you’re up at 6.30 – do have a go, all you have to do is guess the blank when you hear the celebrity clip.

We were also having a giggle at the naughtiest things you did at school! Becky in Milton Keynes, named and shamed her teacher Mr Cabbage Head on the local radio station and then took the recording into school, you can listen to her tell the terrible tale here . Another of our favourites was an anonymous text 'Friends and I unscrewed the screw at bottom of our maths teachers swivel chair so when he sat down the seat dropped. Only when he walked in, he was wearing a neck brace! There was nothing we could do'. That poor teacher!

Tomorrow on the show we’re finding out what you think your kids will end up doing…

See you in the morning from 6 

S&N x

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Monday August 9th
Monday morning, another week begins! We’ll ignore the study that said 58% of us have already started Crimbo shopping, especially if you’re like Stuart and I, who leave it until the last minute. I’m still trying to work out whether or not summer has ended. I spent this weekend at The Big Chill, luckily the weather in Herefordshire didn’t get the better of us! It tried at times though. I’ve never seen such changing skies - cloudy and grey, to sunny, then grey again… there was rain… then sun… even a rainbow! (I took a picture for you)

Despite the changing weather it was lots of fun with a great family vibe. I was in awe at the number of parents who had taken all sizes of kiddies to enjoy the fun! The most impressive was a pregnant lady pushing a buggy with two kids in, that is dedication to the festival cause! I spotted Lily Allen (didn’t get to see her perform as I had to leave). She didn’t look great I must admit, the glowing side of the pregnancy not showing through just yet, but still she looked happy!

On the show today, we were finding out whether you or someone you know has a famous name. Jade’s friend is married to someone called Tom Jones, Andrew in Leighton Buzzard married Julie Andrews, we had a Rolf Harris, Michael Ball and even Harry Potter’s Emma Watson – who got all sorts of bizarre friend requests on facebook, until she realised who she shared a name with. Do check out the real Emma Watson’s new haircut on our web page here .

It’s two days until I’ll be interviewing The Wanted, and if you have any questions you would like me to ask the boys, let me know asap here !

Tomorrow we want to know about the naughtiest things you did at school. Come on, we won’t tell!! We also have our brand new game for you to play after 6.30am called Text in the Blank… you just had to guess what the ‘blank’ is and you could win family passes to Chessington World of Adventures.

See you then

S&N x

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Friday August 6th
Hoorah it’s Friday! How’s your week been? We were finding out your weekend in 3 words this morning. We spoke to Trish who is getting married in Stevenage; we also had an anonymous text from a couple eloping to Gretna Green… how exciting! Dawn has her grandson’s 1st birthday and there’s 100 guests going – but don’t worry she’s got her ear defenders from Luton Airport to wear. I’m off camping! My 3 words weekend is The Big Chill, so fingers crossed it doesn’t rain. It’s my first weekend away with the new ‘fella’ who seems to be a camping guru - I think he may be taking the kitchen sink. Stuart’s having a weekend of fun, food and alcohol… sounds good!

We’ll be back on Monday with a new game to play called Text in the Blank which is going to be lots of fun, so have a wonderful weekend and we’ll see you then from 6am

Until then!

S&N x

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Thursday August 5th
Morning! What is going on with the weather? I know we need some rain, but the light showers we predicted yesterday on the show were HUGE downpours! However, I was determined to go out and about to explore my new patch and managed to do so with the worst brolly, the spokes were sticking out in two places - it ended up in the bin! I was on a mission though, bought a bargain tiffany mirror in a charity shop for a tenner!! One other thing I decided to do was to go and enquire about changing my current account… did you know some banks give you £100 just for switching your current account over to them? Nice!

So, on the show today, Stuart revealed his fear of Karaoke as he’s got a party coming up that he doesn’t really want to go to. We asked for you fave tunes and suggestions of what he should sing, you have to click here and listen to Heather aka the ‘Singer from Hell’ (her words not ours!)

It’s also National Underwear Day today, a day where you’re meant to give a little thought to the first thing you put on in the morning and the last thing you take off at night. What you wear under your clothes SHOULD be the most important item…NO HOLES!! I’m all up for matching undies and it seems you are as well, Nicky in Stevenage spent an impressive £250 on 5 sets. We all seem to agree that you should wear matching - just in case you get hit by a bus. How many times have you heard that! Somebody texted in anonymously saying ‘I always wear matching underwear as I have a friend that’s a paramedic, who tells us stories about them taking the mickey of ‘mismatch Mandy’s’ as they call them!

I’ve also just found out I’m getting to interview The Wanted next Wednesday, so if there’s any burning questions you have for the latest boy band sensation-email me via the website and I’ll do my best!

Tomorrow we want to hear about your three word weekend… as well as having a chat about what attracted you to your partner!

See you in the morning from 6am

S&N

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Wednesday August 4th   
On the show today, you were telling us your celebrity spots, I still can’t believe Jonny Depp was spotted at the Brockett Arms - it may well become my local! Stuart and I have moved into a new house in St Albans (yes we are currently living together!), unfortunately for him I got to the house first and have pretty much filled every space. I’ve been pretty nomadic for the last five years and my shoes have been moved around in their shoe boxes. But on Sunday, I threw some of them away. This is a MAJOR breakthrough for me!

Stuart is yet to bring the bulk of his stuff; his contribution so far to our little set up is lovely Nellie the English bulldog. Today on the show you were telling us about the things your pets do that make you laugh. Nellie just has to look at me and cracks me up. Doreen’s cat violet rolls over when she or her son, say ‘fish’!

If you’ve not yet joined our facebook page, please do so here . We’re always up for hearing from you, what you’ve been up to and finding out where else should we be checking out... EG: pubs where hot movie stars like Jonny Depp hang out – send those my way please!

See you tomorrow, when we’ll be finding out what your karaoke show stopper is... doesn’t actually matter whether you’re any good or not!!

S&N x

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Tuesday August 3rd
Today we asked for your favourite quotes after Natalie’s personal trainer told her he ‘lives to give’ which she found pretty impressive. Although when he revealed it was from Homer Simpson it lost a little gloss! However, as your texts and calls started rolling in we realised the Simpsons are quite often quoted…

Tom’s favorite which he posted on our facebook page is "Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel" and Rebecca’s was "Everyone's entitled to my opinion". Emma D gave us an awesome Oscar Wilde one - "All women become like their mothers that is their tragedy, no man does, and that's his!" Natalie loved this one from Mae West "It's not the men in my life that count, it’s the life in my men" and Stouters tweeted "I hate quotes. Tell me what you know" by Waldo Emerson. You can follow Natalie on twitter here .

Natalie has to organise her best mate’s hen doo and you were brilliant with ideas! Jen suggested white water rafting, Lainey went to one of those clubs in London where you can call people you fancy and cause mischief. Natalie’s been looking into naked life drawing and abseiling…although the hen is hinting that she wants sun and cocktails, so maybe it won’t be so hard after all!

Have a look on the Heart Home Counties facebook page here  to see the trailer for the new Titanic movie - yes they have made a sequel! Some of you think it looks good, but did they really need to? You were giving us your priceless, pointless movie sequel ideas. Stuart’s favourite was Snow White 2 – The Apple Bites Back! We’re contacting Disney as we type! You can keep adding yours to our facebook page and we’ve put a few of our favourites here:

• Cinderella 2  - The Divorce (Cindy takes the prince for every penny!) from Janice
• Ice Age 4 - The Global Warming Effect from Lee in Stevenage
• Groundhog Day from Shab in St.Albans (Although Stuart didn’t quite get it!)
• The Snowman 2 - Melted Puddle Of Ice from Lizzy
• Friday the 13th sequel - Saturday the 14th . . .
• Nanny Mc Rip Off . . .a modern day Mary Poppins!

We’ll be back tomorrow at 6am finding out what your pet does that makes you laugh, and we want to know if you’ve run into any celebrities lately!!

See you then

S&N

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Friday July 30th
So today we told you about the chocolate wax that Victoria Beckham loves – luxury cocoa and hazelnut waxing that you can get at a posh London boutique which apparently leaves the skin smooth and shimmery… Natalie’s recent tea tree wax at Dunstable’s Barnet Fayre pales in comparison! 

We also asked about the white lies you tell your kids, our favourite is that when the ice cream van is playing music – it mean’s it has sold out. Something Jeff and Phil both texted in – and Natalie’s dad used to tell her the same!

We got you to tell us your three word weekends, here are some of our favourites; Helen is ‘Swimming the Channel’ - how impressive is that! Cheryl is Pussy Galore Trunks, she’s heading off to a James Bond themed party and Sue is off for her ‘Honeymoon in Mauritius’. We didn’t get a chance to mention them all but don’t worry as we’ll be doing it again next Friday, so let us know what you’re up to and hopefully we’ll get you on the show.

Finally a HUGE CONGRATS to Mandy in Duston who won a week’s skiing in Bulgaria this winter, and even though she can’t ski she was really chuffed! Well done Mandy!

It’s been a brilliant week once again and we’ll be back (once we’ve moved in together… this weekend… if we’re still talking….) on Monday!!

See you then at 6am

S&N x

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Wednesday July 29th
Hello! A new poll has revealed the strange names we’re calling our kids – with the top three being Bean, Unity and Shy.. so this morning we asked you to tell us how you choose your kids names. We got some interesting answers!

Paul called to tell us about an ex who named her daughter after the entire Man Utd football squad.. he didn’t stay with her for too long! We also spoke to Susannah Dougan who actually called her son Dougan, and gave him his dad's surname. It causes all sorts of confusion as people think his name is Dougan Dougan. Holly called her son Sonny after the Sonny and Cher song ‘I got you babe’. She chose it as it was the song playing as she had her C section, and he was literally lifted out to the to the words, although he was called 'baby' for 2 weeks before she settled on that! One of you liked the Dixie Chicks so much you named you little girl Dixie!

Ian in Northampton, named one of his twin daughters Jorja after Jorja Fox from CSI Vegas. The strangest namesake was Jane in Kettering’s daughter who has named her son Kyle after the Jeremy Kyle show which she watches every day!

We’ll be back in the morning finding out the little white lies you tell your kids – you can post them on our facebook page here - and make sure you tune in as we’ve got a Skiing holiday for two in Bulgaria to be won!

See you tomorrow from 6am

S&N x

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Tuesday July 28th
On the show today we wanted to know about when you’d been told off. Natalie was shouted at by a large man in Morrison’s car park yesterday as he told her she’d parked too close to his car. Stuart was spinning the ‘lazy susan’ in a Chinese restaurant at the weekend and the manager gave him a proper dressing down. We had Amanda telling us about her son Ryan who’s been putting her in her place if she swears - and quite right too! Leanne’s 6 year old Hannah pressed the stop button on the tremelator in Tesco’s in Kingsthorpe and caused all sorts of problems, lots of annoyed people tutting!!

Kirsten tried to help an OAP who had climbed off his mobility scooter get through a door, and he bit her head off! So we’re not alone at getting into trouble. It does make you feel like a kid again doesn’t it...

Jenny in Milton Keynes won our Yes Fest/No Fest competition this morning, winning a weekend’s worth of fun at Xscape in Milton Keynes. That means Jenny is now in Friday’s draw for a chance to win a weeks Skiing holiday in Bulgaria!

Tomorrow we’re keen to hear about people that you’ve lived with that have annoyed you... so if you have a tale to tell let us know on our Facebook page here .

 
See you in the morning at 6am

S&N

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Monday July 27th
It’s been all about feline divas on the show today with the opening of a luxury hotel for cats in Welwyn Garden City!

Click here to visit our facebook page where you can check it out and see pictures should you wish to spoil your moggy. We asked for your suggestions of the ultimate playlist to entertain our feline friends whilst they relax and get pampered, before they get snacking on the 'A La Cat' menu..

 Here are some of your suggestions: 

 

How much is that Doggy in the window, Ricky
Cool for Cats Kelly in East Hunsbury
Eye of the tiger, Charlie by The Prodigy - Big H and the Tree surgeons 
What's new Pussycat - Cheryl
Cats (by the Cure)  - Amelia
Stray Cat Strut  -Karen in Bedford
Birds Aloud and Cats the Musical! Emily in Milton Keynes
We are Siamese - Kathy in Biggleswade
Who let the dogs out' (tee hee!) Carol in Bedford
Lovecats! Kerry in Flitwick
Aristocats as it sounds classy, Carol in Letchworth
Puuurrrrfect by Fairground Attraction
Puss in boots (Adam Ant) - Steph in Moulton 

Tomorrow on the show we’d love to know your tales of housemates from hell! Did you share when you were at Uni? Or maybe you’re still sharing now? Was there someone who drove you crazy, never washed up, had people round till the early hours when you were trying to sleep? Do let us know! You can go to our facebook page and leave us a message.

Finally, don’t forget there’s also another chance for you to play Yes Fest / No Fest with Xscape to win yourself a fun family weekend and get into the draw for Friday to win a week’s skiing in Bulgaria!

See you in the morning at 6am

S&N

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Thursday July 22nd
On the show today we were giving you some tips to hopefully ease the fear of how to entertain the kids now the school holidays are almost upon us - and we’ll continue to do so! Also with the news that Katy Perry wants Russell Brand to sell his London home (she says too many women know he lives there!!) We asked whether you had tried to change you partner and Kelly in Stevenage made us laugh about her bloke. Apparently he is so scruffy; he only changes his pants once or twice a week! Heather in St Neots told us about her mate who had to spoon feed her bloke as he was so caught up playing Xbox!!

Stuart made a major breakthrough today with his theory about what you have as your phone screen saver. Apparently us girlies are more likely to have emotive pictures whereas the guys normally have inanimate objects such as cars/motorbikes. If you disagree, let us know on the show tomorrow and we'll see if we can disprove his theory!

Tomorrow, we’re talking about the pressure to make your kids party the talk of the playground as well as what you used to do on your last day at school.

If you’ve not already done so, do join our brand new facebook page here . We had a great night at Whipsnade Zoo last night and there are some pictures on our page for you to have a giggle at - including one guy who got pretty with a lemur!!

See you tomorrow at 6am

S&N x

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Wednesday July 21st
Today was all about your holiday romances… and Natalie’s… Stuart even got one of her mates on the phone to spill the beans about a holiday romance the pair of them had when they were 16. In short, it involved guys pretending to be footballers. Anna did better than that as she had a ‘holiday romance’ when she was 18, with Jamie Redknapp!

We wanted to know whether holiday romances ever last, and so we spoke to you to find out. One of our favourites was Lisa who is married to a guy she met behind a bar on holiday, then there is Marie who met Colin 37 years ago on holiday – aaah! In fact we had a number of you telling us how you were still with holiday romances, like Kerrie who met her guy by chatting to him in a campsite about Landrovers and they’re now engaged and getting married in 2012. One of you told us how you met a Canadian guy on holiday, the romance continued and you have since decided to elope to Paris!!

The news that there’s a website that allows you to rent a ‘friend’ who will accompany you to movies, business events, and even weddings - really got us laughing. Not only can you rent a friend, but you, yourself, can become one – and earn money from it! So Natalie’s filled in the application, to see whether anyone will be interested in being her friend.. find out tomorrow if there’s any response!!  Click here to check it out for yourself.

Tomorrow we’re finding out how much pocket money you have to pay your kid and the things you used to have to earn it!

See you in the morning from 6am S&N x

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Tuesday July 20th
We started the show revealing that 1 in 5 of us have sent a racy text message to the WRONG person! We asked whether you’d ever sent a text to the wrong person and what the text was about....

You told us “I sent a text to a friend from work saying the following day I was gonna pull a sicky but actually sent it to my boss by mistake!!" when we asked what happened the reply was "I  had to pretend to my boss that a friend had taken my phone and sent it as a dare! I went to work the following day. The sicky had to wait, my boss thought it was a very funny dare!" You also told us “I sent a text to my lover saying exactly what I was going to do to her and sent it to a member of her staff! Was I red, text left nothing to the imagination and let her know exactly what her boss was into lol” and Jenn told us “I’ve done worse. I was sat at a work meal texting my friend how much of a bore the bloke next to me was and accidentally sent it to him” Ouch!

The you were telling us about the things that wind you up about your partner. Our favourite was Julie who left a guy after 3 years, because amongst other things his 82 year old mother was still cutting his toe nails!

Tomorrow it’s all about Holiday Romances! Did you have one? If so, what happened when you came home? Finally - don’t forget to join our brand new facebook page.

See you tomorrow from 6am

S&N x

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Monday July 19th
On the show today Natalie revealed she stashed a bottle of champagne down her trousers when in Paris and so was rather chuffed to hear about the ‘Wine Rack Bra’ which not only gives you a good cleavage on a night out, but also a supply of vino! The cups can be filled with a whole bottle of wine and then there’s a straw for you to subtly sip. Nat decided she might have to try that out. Stuart’s decided he wants to as well!

This morning was all about the things you used to do to your brothers / sisters or they did to you and your tales were genius! We had Richard who used to tell his sister she was aadopted – for two years! Graham’s brother Andrew got him to test whether his scalectric was working, by putting his tongue on the track – and then he flicked the switch.. and Carly told us how she used to taunt her sister by calling her the bearded lady!!

We couldn’t fit them all in on the show, so we’ve compiled a top 10 of the worst things you’ve done to your bro or sister:

10. Lisa said when she was about 8 her brother accidentally killed the pet gerbil and she was so upset she banged his head against the wall!

9. Sue told her brother in the 60's at the height of the superhero craze that if he jumped off the top of our bunk bed and used his dressing gown as wings he would fly. He did flapping his arms wildly and broke his arm.

8. Me and my sister put tooth paste on our little brothers eyelids to stop him peeking once when we were playing hide and seek we thought we'd blinded him! Anon.

7. Julie used to wake her younger brother up, when she was coming in from a night out and tell him he was late for school and took great pleasure watching him rushing around getting ready. Once he was out the door, she let him know it was actually 2am…

6. Greg in Northampton told us this: When I was around 5 I used to always run into the room I shared with my older brother and dive on my bed at night (which of course if caught by my parents I'd get told off for) well one night I ran in, jumped and as I landed felt a pain in my head. My brother thought it would be funny to put my dads hammer in my pillow case! Of course I couldn't tell my parents as I shouldn't have been jumping on my bed and all I could see of my brother was the top of his head as he lay in his bed, covers pulled up, pretending to be asleep and giggling.

5. Pat made her brother eat a poisonous plant by telling him that it tasted nice and even pretended to eat some herself! She then rushed to tell her Mum and he was rushed to hospital had his stomach pumped and then on the way out of the hospital fell out the car and had to have stitches in his forehead! Needless to say she was not popular!!

4. Nick remember getting a mirror and hitting his sister across her face... She still has the scar now and he’s still having the 7 years if bad luck!

3. Ruth was playing Hide and Seek in the dark with her bro's & sister, she fell over a piano leg and cut her head open! Her Mum had to call her dad who was working to come and get her and take her to the hospital. Her eldest brother Steven got the blame!!

2. Alex in Northants, said when he was about 4 years old, he pushed his 2 year old brother down the stairs and he bit his tongue so hard, he bit through it so the end was hanging on by a thread, he ate his dinner with it flapping around. It was gross!

1. John in Kigsmead takes the number one slot – with the tale of how his sister put a garden fork through his foot to teach him what it felt like for worms, when he was chopping them in half with a spade. Ouch – a harsh way to learn a lesson!

Your stories were brilliant and we want more and more of them, as the show is all about YOU!! Tomorrow we’re finding out the things you don’t get about men  - and compiling a list to see if we can get a response from a brave male spokesperson.

See you tomorrow at 6am

S&N x

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Thursday July 15th
On the show today it was all about David Beckham (Natalie sighs loudly). He was doing a live webchat yesterday and was answering all sorts of questions about his personal life, including admitting he likes building lego and whilst in Milan, he bought a Taj Mahal..but didn’t finish it due to injury (not from the lego!). Another GREAT excuse to use a picture of him today too!

We also had the news that JLS’s Marvin is moving in with Rochelle from The Saturday’s leaving Aston without his wingman, so we launched an appeal to find him another. There’s nothing worse when a mate ditches you cause they’re loved up, although you want to be happy for them you can’t help but feel slightly left behind…

Natalie talked about how just over a year ago, she split up with a guy and had to move out, so along with her mate who was helping her pack – the pair took great pleasure in mixing up the guys shelves full of DVD’s, swapping every DVD into a different box… Revenge is Sweet when you know it last a long time!

You were telling us your revenge tales, with Adele ripping up her ex’s Dr Who comics, Michelle moved her mans belongings out of the house as soon as she found out he’d been cheating. Emma’s friend put her ex’s belonging in a bath filled with jelly which had set by the time he came back. One of you text in about swapping your ex’s Just for Men from black to blonde, sending him ginger!!

Our favourite was Kaz who said her ex husband met a Philipino on a chat room and left her for the other woman. She got hold of the woman’s number and rang up to rant. What she didn't know, was that she actually lived in the Philippines. The now ex-husband got a £90 charge on his phone bill!

If you are planning your revenge and could do with some help have a look at this - where there’s all sorts of tales and rules to follow.

Tomorrow on the show, we’re finding out what happened when you met your partners parents.

See you tomorrow at 6am

S&N x

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Wednesday July 14th
Today we revealed that the most popular haircut for women is long cut with a fringe and were finding out about when you’ve tried to cut your own fringe. Natalie used to cut her hair and blame teddy!  We spoke to Phillipa who when her mum had put her hair in bunches, cut one off as she only wanted one. The babysitter got sacked! Amanda in Daventry cut a 2 inch piece out of her fringe when she was 6 with paper scissors and couldn't understand how her Mum knew, after saying her school photo looked awful!

We had an anonymous message from someone, saying ‘As a kid my mum trimmed my hair wonky. .we tried to fix it. . . no fringe left. Now I’ve got my hair cut short as it’s not grown properly since and I’m now 44!! We were also reminiscing about our favourite things we had when we were kids, as Etch a Sketch is 50 years old! Natalie loved her speak and spell and her big yellow teapot! Stuart still has his big ted… and we had Mel in Blisworth come on and tell us that she’d rather have her cuddly toy rabbit Fu Fu in her bed that her partner!

If you want a giggle, have a look at our facebook page where you can see Natalie’s ‘pash rash’… She’s just been on a 3rd date with a guy and had lots of snogs… which caused her chin to peel off! Ouch…

Tomorrow on the show we want to hear about your revenge stories, whether it’s to an ex or a so called friend… you can let us know on our facebook page too.

See you in the morning at 6am

S&N 

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Tuesday July 13th
Today it’s 25 years since Live Aid and there’s loads of pics on the Heart website. Nick text us to tell us he was there and Queen blew him away, as one of the most incredible performances he’d ever seen. Refresh your memory here .

One of the most useful things we found out on the show today, is that a leading supermarket have spent millions of pounds developing a loo roll that promises to be the easiest to get into ever. So no more tearing it off around the outside or rip the first few sheets into shreds -  as they’ve got the solution to the problem of how you unravel a new roll. They have spent 3 million pounds and come up with 'easy start roll technology' that ensures the first sheet rips off as easily as the first… how much-lets hope it works!

With the entertaining news that the Mayor of Leicester’s trousers fell down in front of a group of school children, we wanted to know about your fashion disasters. Laura had a maxi dress split right down the back, en route to fancy night out. Ruth came out of a client meeting to go and do a bit of retail therapy in a shopping centre, she was admiring a coat when she noticed in the mirror (to her horror!) that her skirt had split way up the back revealing her bum in just a g string and is still not sure to this day if she walked out of the client meeting exposing her derrier! Matt invested in a pair of Cowboy boots in the 80’s that he had seen George Michael wear in the Faith video, finished off with drainpipe black 501s. It was when he was at Art College and sadly he didn’t really pull off the look! Not only that the building had a long wooden floor and his cowboy boots may a clip clop sound so that people could hear him coming! Katrina wore lots of ripped stripped pillow case as a rat's tail at the end of her hair to be like Boy George and we had Annette who just last week had to change out of split trousers on the A43 after she’d got into the car and heard a rip! Luckily her friend she was car sharing with had her gym bag, however she ended up wearing leggings to work!

Tomorrow we want to hear about your favourite thing you had as a kid.

See you in the morning at 6am

S&N x

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Monday July 12th
On today’s show Natalie talked about how she’d been gaining ‘Aunty’ points at her niece’s 10th birthday party - which was a Spa themed event. Natalie and her sister were on hand to pamper the mini diva’s, even making home made face masks! Tracy in Hunsbury then called up to tell us about her burnt eyelids! She was after Nat's recipe – so if you’ve got any burnt bits that need cooling, here's what you need:

Nat’s Green Gloop:
Avocado – chopped
Cucumber – chopped
Yoghurt
Honey

Blend and put in the fridge.. then scoop over face, add cucumber to the eyes and relax! It got us wondering about your kids parties as there is so much pressure to make them stand out. We’ll be finding out what you’re doing to entertain the young ones in your household. 

Also today we heard about how you split the bill when amongst friends - whether you go even stevens or speak out and say you only want to pay for what you ordered. Sarah in Duston called about getting drunk when she’s out and agreeing to split the bill cause she’s instead of having more food, she just guzzles the wine. Sarah facebooked us saying ‘Absolutely no way do I split it evenly, that is my major bug bear!! I had an incident many years ago that has scarred me for life!!! A piece of sushi and a glass of wine cost me £30 because I didn't have the courage to say something!!' Ruth agreed saying pay for what you eat and drink only, Ali said her friends go for buffet which is a fixed cost per person and each pays for their own drinks, Eileen said I used to just pay the split when out with my friends until I figured out how much it was costing me as I don’t drink wine and most of my mates do, only trouble is my maths is rubbish!

Our favourite though, was the person who said that their friend makes the waiter print each of them a separate bill so that they all pay separately. This usually takes ten minutes and I always end up giving the tip and apologising!! 

All week we’re finding out about the office pest  - people in your place of work that really wind you up, whether it’s talking too loudly, wearing garish clothes or writing their name on the food in the fridge. Tell us about them on our facebook page and we’ll be putting together a top 5 at the end of the week!

Until tomorrow

S&N x

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Thursday July 8th

It was all about your talented pets today and you can see a video of Sadie the dancing dog and Stuart’s dog Nelly on our facebook page!

One of you  told us about your dog and rabbit who play football together in the garden which is funny to watch, we had a cat who can say pigeon, Ben told us about his rats (yukl!) and one of them has a talent of stashing as many treats as he possible can in his mouth at once! Anya in Daventry’s cat catches the bus, Danny in Wellingborough’s dog Sammy can skate board and Jamie and Sue have a piano playing cat!

You must check out Tiggy the singing cat here .

Sophie our small talk contestant tried to get her dog Barclay to moo and do his motorbike impression but failed and Kaz let us hear her extremely loud purring cat Dolce!

Tomorrow, we want to hear your Sports Day tales.

See you then from 6am

S&N

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Wednesday July 7th
On the show today it was all about the worst jobs you’ve ever had. Stuart was once a bean grader and Natalie engraved pens in a department store.. your tales were brilliant with Cheryl rolling salmon in a factory, Lisa in Daventry worked at dog kennels and all she seemed to do all day was pick up poo, Zoe’s worked for the council shovelling mud and all sorts of rubbish and Becky worked at speedy bake watching raw bread rolls going along a conveyor belt taking out the ones that were the wrong shape, she used to get so bored she used to mold them into very rude shapes!

We compiled your top 5 worst jobs:

5: When Louise was 14 she worked at a farm for 4 weekends in December as Mary in the Nativity, sat in a freezing barn with a donkey, sheep and goats

4: Kate dressed as Dexter the Dog at co-op in Kettering and was set alight by a group of youths flicking a cigarette at her..

3: Debbie worked for a research company drowning snails! Apparently they don’t squeal

2: Helen‘s worst job was Christmas turkey plucking – seeing the WHOLE process which was such an awful experience she didn't eat turkey that year!

1: Ian worked in the boning hall of an abattoirs whilst a student. Thats why I never ate minced meat for 8 years!!!! Poor cows!!!! 

Tomorrow we want to know if you have a talented pet as we’d love to get them on. You could even post up your videos and photos on our facebook page

See you tomorrow at 6am

S&N x

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Tuesday July 6th
On the show today we revealed the reason why one of Jedward fell over on stage and you can read all the latest news about him on the showbiz pages. Natalie revealed she fell off a plane, literally the last step and hit the tarmac.. Stuart trumped her by saying he fell out of a plane – luckily wearinga  parachute!

You were telling us about what you can’t live without! Stuart made out he’s rather have a day without clothes than his phone – shall we hold him to it? Natalie was obsessing about her herbal tea (each to their own!) Kaz can’t do without Ronan Keating, for Lisa it’s chocolate even though she’s lost 6 ½ stone after having a gastric band fitted, she still has her choccy fix each day! Gordon would be lost without his internet, Trevor without his coffee, Lara without Eastenders and Leigh said her mum and her feather pillow – aah!

R-Patz is the most kissed celebrity waxwork and it’s National Kissing day, so a big mwah from us and we’ll be back tomorrow at 6am

S&N

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Monday July 5th
Morning, hope you had a lovely weekend, the sun is still shining hoorah!

So Natalie went to see Pink at Wireless festival and announced her girl crush.. Stuart went to a BBQ where there was a whole pig on a spit, which caused him such offence he insisted they put tin foil over the pigs face!

We asked about the things you have learnt from your kids and Julianna was tweeting, whilst enjoying peanut butter and jam sarnies and Davina’s son had pointed out that Pluto was no longer a planet, despite her disagreement! We also gave you tips on how to spot a spy  – with Natalie revealing she once looked to apply to MI5, but didn’t get far in the application, which stated you weren’t allowed to mention you were applying… when Natalie got to that stage on the form, she’d already told her friend. Fell at the first hurdle!

Stuart confessed to eating 15 roast potatoes in one sitting, with the news that in the US, the latest ‘competitive’ eating competition saw Joey ‘Jaws’ Chestnut wolf down 54 hot dogs.. you told us about your cake, scotch pancakes and meatballs which you’ve been gobbling down..impressive.

And finally – Lady Gaga has become the first living person to have 10 million fans on facebook… which makes our 380 facebook friends wonderful…but not enough. So go on – invite your friends to join our page. Just send out this link to as many people as you can!

Tomorrow on the show, we’d love to know what you can’t live without…

See you in the morning at 6am

S&N

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Friday July 2nd

It was a winners show this morning, with Julie and Paige and Davina and Nina winning tickets to se a midnight screening of  the new Twilight movie ‘Eclipse’ - TONIGHT when the film isn’t released for another week! Make sure you have a look through the Showbiz pages to see all the pictures of the premiere in Leicester Square last night and you can watch the trailer . Lynne won £200 holiday vouchers to spend at First Choice by playing Roll the Dice to Paradise – well done all of you. 

I got very excited with the news that Wonder Woman is having a make-over as I used to love her, even though I was young at the time and Stuart was mocking me forgetting her all important spin transformation! The new outfit sees Wonder Woman wearing a biker jacket at jeggings!

Also we revealed the news about a new app for your iphone where you can track celebs. I thought it would tell you were they actually were, but Stuart pointed out that would mean tagging celebs with an electronic tag… which I doubt will go down too well. But do look out for that this weekend.

We asked you to describe your weekend in 3 words.. there were funny ones with Catherine saying ’on the lash’, Julie in Raunds ‘ wedding pimms cupcakes’. Twilight themed ones from TG – ‘Pattinson, Stewart, Launtner’ – Stuart thought it was a reference to him.. then the slightly less fun ones ‘Words writing reports’ and  ‘garden graft backache’..ouch…. Still it’s always great to hear what you’re up too. 

We’ll be back on Monday from 6am 

Until then - enjoy the weekend!

S&N x

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Thursday July 1st

Stuart is very excited about the news that a sequel of Top Gun is being discussed by movie execs, cue favourite  quotes from the movie: 

Stuart’s fave quote – I feel the need…the need for speed…
Wadeyboy’s was - Your still dangerous but you can be my wingman anytime..
Jay in Daventry loved - Son, your ego’s writing cheques that your body can’t cash… 

We asked about your dreams after Stuart revealed he’d dreamt he was stuck in a washing machine and in Natalie’s dream she was talking to David Cameron about online dating!! Sara in Daventry called to say she dreamt she gave birth to a melon and Zoe in Northampton dreamt about the olden days where she was run down by a horse and cart and then fell down a well! As the dreams got stranger we had a call from dream analyst Ian Wallace, who explained Sara’s dream meant she’d been working on a big project that was now going to bear its fruits. Here Ian explains what Natalie and Stuart's dreams meant! And if you were listening this morning and thinking that you never remember your dreams – hear Ian’s tips to help you do just that.

Finally, tomorrow on the show is your last chance to Roll the Dice to Paradise on Heart Breakfast, and we want you to describe your weekend, in just three words..

See you in the morning at 6am

S&N 

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Wednesday June 30th

So the face of £20 is changing today and we asked you who should be the replacement. Your suggestions went from George Clooney to Winston Churchill – so we’ll have to wait and see. Apparently Sir Jimmy Saville is on the list! 

We also asked for the bits of yourself you would change if you could! Stuart would like to get rid of his skinny wrists and Natalie doesn’t like her thighs! Paul and Lucy both got in touch about their toes. Paul has cartoon like big toes and Lucy’s are so long she’s like to cut them off to help her buy better shoes! There were all sorts of demands for boobs to be increased or decreased. We’re never happy with what we’ve got... 

We had Elmo on the show name dropping about David Beckham and Katy Perry as he’s in the UK at the moment and we heard a never before tune from Lady Gaga that was recorded at Elton John’s White tie and Tiara party.
 
Back tmw with another chance for you to win £200 vouchers from First choice, by playing our game Roll the Dice to Paradise.

See you then at 6am!

S&N

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 Tuesday June 29th

With the news that Will Smith is offering his 11 yr old son Jaden kissing tips for his next onscreen role, Stuart wanted to know whether there was any where adults could get kissing tips and so I found this  - all Stuart needs now is someone to do his practical with!! If your partner could do with some tips – then get them to have a look. Don’t forget out facebook page, if you’ve not already joined visit now!

We heard that Subo has just opened her local school fete and got all reminiscent about our school fete. Do let us know about the ones going on near you.. are they still as good as they were? It’s been a while since I’ve played catch the rat! 

After Stuart then revealed that I’ve been walking his dog in the vain attempt to meet maybe a guy, it’s apparently how Davina McCall met her hubby…walking her dog! We asked how you met yours and had a great story from Matt, who saw a woman welding at Art College and watched her mesmerized, they are now married… Ken in east Hunsbury  told us about the woman who came to view his house, with her then husband.. they bought the house. He moved into the house, she moved in with Ken and 23 years & two gorgeous daughters later they are still together. Jordan met her fella at a taxi rank after a night out. He claimed it was his birthday and asked for could a birthday kiss. That was in the Jan 06- she then found out his birthday was actually July and they’ve been together ever since. Claire met her husband nine yrs ago in a game of pool on yahoo and they've been together ever since, it was love at first sight. On webcam!

If you want to tell us more tales feel free to post them on our facebook page and we’ll be back tomorrow finding out if you could change one thing about yourself - what would it be?

See you tmw at 6am

S&N

Monday June 28th

Enjoy the sunshine, we’re back tomorrow at 6am

S&N

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Thursday June 24th

What a relief, England won last night… and as Stuart was working I watched it with a load of girls in the Heart office and we were commentating on various thighs, one of the Slovenian had HUGE thighs! Our ‘one for the girls moment’ was definitely Matthew Upson as we didn’t even get to see a glimpse of Becks until right at the end. Hopefully we’ll survive past Sunday – come on boys! 

So Lady Gaga fell over in her chaps and high heels yesterday and it was revealed today that  British women love a pair of skyscraper heels and, according to ­figures released recently, we’re determined to wear stylish shoes even if we can’t quite pull it off. Click Here  to see this website I found where you can get some tips to help the wobbles and prevent any twisted ankles!

We also wanted to know what you wanted to be as a kid, as Stuart wanted to be a vet until he saw All Creatures Great and Small. I wanted to be a hairdresser and used to cut my own hair and blame my teddy! We spoke to Dawn who wanted to be a page 3 model and Aaron who wanted to be a Blue Peter presenter and had obscure texts from one of you - who’s brother wanted to be a fire engine and someone else who first wanted to be a penguin but then watched a program where a shark ate one! The innocence of youth eh!

So finally, the longest tennis match in history continues later today… hope the crowd have oiled their necks!

See you tmw at 6am

S&N

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Wednesday June 23rd

This morning we heard about your excuses to bunk off work today, as we gave you a guide on what not to do, Hearts Bunking off guide ! Some schools are closing early across Northamptonshire and Ken called to say that this had given him the best excuse as a responsible parent to bunk off, as he had to collect the kids! Tina agreed and Gillian called to tell us, she’d planned ahead and booked the day off. Here’s some of the suggestions we heard on Heart Breakfast:

• You got stung by a bee last night and had no idea you were allergic… now your face is so swollen you can’t see to drive.
• If your boss is a guy, just say you’re having “womanly issues” … no guy has the guts to question it!
• If your boss is a pet lover, go with a pet emergency. Animal lovers will let you out of work every time!
• You’ve been summoned to court. No one can argue with the law!
• You locked your keys in your car. The locksmith’s on the way, but he said it might be hours before he arrives.

And we had breaking weather news as it’s going to be another very warm day across Northamptonshire today with highs of 26C – BUT it could be also be a degree or so higher in the larger towns of Northampton and Wellingborough….whoop whoop. Enjoy the sunshine if you get the chance, and make sure you slip slap slop with that cream!

We’ll be back tomorrow at 6am

S&N

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 Tuesday June 22nd

 Today’s show was all about F F F Fashion… as tonight we along with Donna in Kettering are appearing in Gok’s Fashion Fix. So we wanted to know your fashion faux pas, starting with the news that there has been an increase of 400% in searches online for SPEEDO’s! It seems British men are more into the tight fitting trunks than our French and German neighbours… so we wanted to find someone in Northampton who wore them and Brian in Desborough was our man! Stuart confessed to wearing WHITE trunks, sorry they were only white at the back, so not that bad… although he didn’t wear them more than once! We asked for your fashion errors – mine were knee high black patent boots, Lara facebooked about a chain mail g-string and Adele said wet look leggings… eek the things we wore and thought we looked cool!

Tomorrow we’ve got another chance for you to win a night out this Saturday at Beacon bingo and we wanna hear about what you wanted to be when you were a kid!

Oh and have you joined our facebook group – if not do come and get in on the fun!

See you tmw at 6
S&N

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Monday June 21st

So we’re back from a few days off… Stuart relaxed at home and Natalie went to a festival in Barcelona. Today we were asking for your claim to fames as Stuart saw Tom O' Conner on a train the other week, however, Natalie trumped him as she was an extra in ER and met the gorgeous Goran and Noah Wyle. Then it was your turn - Dawn met Simon Cowell and asked him if she could touch his hair! He let her and told her she was strange! Sarah used to wait tables for Stephen Fry and Tony Hadley handed her a glass of water at a water cooler! Becky got hit on the head by Timmy Mallet, Emily kissed Prince William but Tanya was the most impressive. Her sister dated Corey Haim and brought him round for a BBQ!

Amanda won a night out at Beacon Bingo's Beach Party Meltdown by playing ‘Wags to Riches’ with us, and you could be in with a chance of winnng every morning this week.

We’ll be back tomorrow from 6 – see you then!

S&N

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Wednesday June 16th

Today we found out about some of your best fancy dress outfits. Julia’s husband is the king of fancy dress – managing three different outfits in one night! Charlotte won a prize for her inventive bottle ketchup, Hayley and her pals went out in Leicester as laundry baskets wearing the pop up ones with socks attached! Natalie revealed she had once dressed up as a lilo and Stuart was a carrot – on national TV ( no shame!) You can see some of your pictures on our facebook page .

If the vuvuzela’s in the world cup have been annoying you – you need to listen to what happened when Michael Buble got his hands on. listen to Michael Buble on the Vuvuzela .

The most exciting thing this morning though was Katrina winning a trip to Disneyland Paris with Heart Love Music Live where she’ll be seeing Enrique Iglesias along with her hubby and three kids..don’t forget Toby still has more chances for you to win all week.

We’re off for a few days break – Daniel Fox will be holding the fort, but we’re back 6am on Monday
See you then
S&N

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Tuesday June 15th

Yes, I’ve had a spray tan, much to Stuart’s amusement! I’m going away for a few days and thought I’d treat myself to a biscuity smelling coating – Cheryl Cole revealed her spray tan white bits in Birmingham at the X-Factor auditions, but you’ll see my palms don’t give the game away at all! You have to check out this website got a laugh..

As Natalie has taken one tanned step closer to being a wag we thought we would give you the Heart Breakfast guide to becoming a wag , listen below. Today was was ALL about your pinups, as we revealed Ewan Mcgregor’s was Princess Leia, Natalie’s was Michael J Fox – Sarah in Desborough’s was …. STUART!

  You told us all about the crushes you had on Bros, Rick Astley, Peter Andre, we also had the guys revealing theirs…although most were page 3 ladies! Things the took a turn for the oldest pin up in town! It started with a 46 year old who still has Jonny Depp on her wall, then Jane who’s 54 told us about Freddie Mercury being on hers still, then Alison told her 59 yr old ex, still has Kylie as his pin up…but the best was our small talk contestant Hannah, who told us her Ma-in Law is 67 and has Daniel O Donell pictures ALL over her walls! Definitely the oldest pin up in town!

Join is tmw for another chance to win an amazing trip to Disneyland Paris with Heart Music Live.
See you at 6

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Monday June 14th

Today Natalie pointed out the ‘one for the girls’ moment in the England game, when we first saw Beckham, looking pensive in the dug out.. There was no doubt that women across the nation sighed at that point… to then comment on how Becks is ‘definitely getting better with age’. Natalie will be keeping her eye out for more of these moments.. yes ladies you know the ones, as the tounemant goes on…(GREAT EXCUSE TO HAVE A PIC OF BECKS)

Then it was all about the words you used to say wrong as a kid… Stuart struggled with lellow / yellow… Natalie… with her own name….saying Nat-lie…

You gave us some absolute classics, Steve in Roade said ” When I was younger I couldn’t say jumbo jet which came out as jonjo bet and also orange which came out as lorin. Thankfully I am ok now!” Lewis on the m1 said his brother used to say tup per tea for a cup of tea  - still makes him laugh today, and Sarah in Burton Latimer told us.. my daughter Olivia is 21months old and can't say her l's so as you can imagine clock is rather embarrassing when your out!

More from you tomorrow as we find out  who was your pin up.
Join us from 6am
S&N

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Friday June 11th

It’s a record breaking weekend in Northamptonshire and we got you to set a record with us at the Race for Life on Wednesday night. We had the most Women singing our Heart breakfast jingle at one time, that's right around 5000 women joing in and you sounded fantastic ! We asked for your records and our favourite was Tracy who wants to do the longest kiss with Beckham!

Katie won our amazing trip of a lifetime to Disneyland Paris to see Enrique Iglesias for Heart Music Live, she was soooo excited and who wouldn’t be! We also heard from WAG Abbie Clancy and RAG – Una from the Saturdays and Peter Andre talking about the moment he found out Katie Price was getting married again!

One thing to note if you’re planning on seeing any wild animals this weekend, make sure you’re not wearing Obsession for Men as a new survey showed that lions &  tigers have a bit of a thing for the CK scent, so maybe lose the aftershave! But talking of smells 1 in 3 of us have to put up with a stinky person at work – ho hum!

Have a fab weekend, the sun will be shining and lets hope England make us proud in the footy!
See you Monday from 6am
S&N x

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Thursday June 10th

Wow – what an amazing night Stuart and I had last night, at the Race for Life in Silverstone as 5,000 women ran either 5k or 10k for Cancer Research UK. We were on stage comparing you before the race and then I ran it, whilst Stuart cheered you along. The rain held off and you all did so well and I’m sure you’ve already had a look at all the pictures online, if not – go look! Despite being a bit tired today, I was pleased with a personal best of 29 minutes, and well done to Alyson from Heart who ran with me, until the last bit. She got a personal best too of 31 minutes…

So today, we had some Muppet madness and wanted to know your favourite Muppet as there’s a new movie out Christmas 2011. Stuart is a Miss Piggie fan and her karate moved, I loved Fozzie as he reminded me of fish fingers. Vicky text to say she was also in the Miss Piggie camp, Dan in Northants went for Pepe the Prawn and for Janey it was the Cookie Monster. Stuart even did his Swedish Chef impression. Sue told us her grandson Tyler loves Gonzo he has soft toy and won't go bed without him..aah!

Can you believe that there’s a loaf of bread on sale for £21.. imagine if you burnt a piece of toast.. you’d eat it anyway wouldn’t you! We were amused by that story and the news that Russell Brand is going to space as his fiancé Katy Perry spent £100,000 on a trip for him and held a party where she came into the room wearing an astronauts outfit! Put to shame the backgammon set I bought my last boyfriend!

We’ll have another chance for you to win a trip of your lifetime to Heart’s Love Music Live at Disneyland Paris and the chance to see Enrique Iglesias on the show tomorrow and we’re talking record breakers… is there a record you want to break?

See you tmw at 6am
S&N
 

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Wednesday June 9th

Today Natalie got far too excited about the news that Power wellies have been invented, which have a unique power generating sole which creates an electrical current to charge your mobile phone. She’s now on a mission to get hold of a pair even if you have to walk around for 12 hours to get enough energy for an hours charge on your phone.

Stuart was beside himself with the news that his Face could be in Space… Nasa want your pictures and we’ve sent ours… click here

Stuart’s also been noting down the England World cup madness.. after a story about Dan Taylor who’s put real grass with white lines down in his living room! And Michelle text us about her nieghbout Sharon in Roade who has 1000 flags in her garden and a tent where she’s showing the games and charging people. We’d like photographic evidence of all your world cup decorations  - feel free to put them on our facebook wall .

And we were having a real laugh with you today , asking the question you know you’re old when…. Mick said you bump into someone clubbing who looks familiar and you realise you used to babysit for them!!!!! Tracy in East Hunsburysaid you know your old when you remember watching Stuart on Blue Peter. Wayne in Northampton said you know you’re old when your 13 yr old daughter says ‘Dad have you heard of Just For Men and Mark in Kettering gave a bit too much info saying you know you’re old when you randomly wet yourself and when a song comes on the radio from the early 80s and you know all the words and when you throw your cup me tea over yourself .
 
We look forward to hearing more from you tomorrow morning, when we’ll be seeing how Natalie did in the Race for Life tonight and giving you the chance to win an amazing trip to Disneyland Paris and you’ll get to see Enrique Iglesias in Heart Music Live. Don’t miss a minute of the show!

See you then
Stuart & Natalie

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Tuesday June 8th

This morning we were finding out your favourite boy and girls bands from the UK… as there’s been a new poll with Spice Girls – Stuart’s favourite.. and Boyzone at the top – we both wanted it to be Take That. Natalie revealed her first boy band concert was Brother Beyond aged 11 and whilst at Uni, she interviewed Matt Goss from Bros and he had buffed finger nails (picture of Matt). Erica text to say she was a fan of The Course and Savage Garden, Sophie was a McFly fan and Emmaline like Natalie was a Bros fan..they should have been in the poll really!

Now Stuart never makes his bed, which is apparently a good thing as it means he’s less likely to have bed bugs.. if you leave your bed unmade, they find it harder to survive, best excuse you’ve heard today don’t you think!!

Natalie’s health kick continues, although she was also struggling slightly after telling her trainer he’d not been working her hard enough – so yesterday he silenced her! She was creaking around the studio and had been eating Quorn which Stuart had explained was fungus – yuk!

Stuart has no fillings, but then he also has false teeth..not really!! He’s got a lot of dental care though!  Our Small Talk contestant Zoe is a dental nurse and was talking about calming people in the chair, we both weren’t keen on the dentist chair!

And we heard about your parents winding you up. Gio’s mum gets her name wrong all the time, something that Natalie’s mum does too and Tracy’s mum tells the punch line of jokes before she’s told the whole gag! Genius!

Don’t forget to join our facebook page
See you tomorrow from 6am
S&N

 

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Monday June 7th

Today we revealed the UK’s most pointless celebrities and got you to work out who was number 1… you guessed correctly it was indeed JEDWARD…the funniest comment was Tracy in East Hunsbury who thought the double act was Katie Price, not sure if she meant her or her assets…lol!

Also we heard from Piers Morgan saying he doesn’t care about the micky taking his fellow BGT judges have been doing about his double chin… but we weren’t convinced and reckon he’s doing that chin tapping thing to combat it getting bigger!

It was also time to share your obsessions, with Nick having to log into his computer the same way, Barbara having to always put the loo seat down – even in bathroom showrooms…and Michelle having to hang her washing out with matching pegs!

We liked the news that Cheryl Cole is throwing a divorce party this weekend, coinciding with England’s first match… do you think they’ll have the game on in the background and throw heels at the TV..or have drinking games going on every time Ashley touches the ball! Or will they pin the tail on the ex husband… (probably somewhere very painful)

Make sure you keep listening to the show all week for your chance to win an amazing trip of your lifetime to Disneyland Paris with Heart Music Live and you’ll get to see Enrique Iglesias!!”

See you tomorrow at 6
S&N x

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Friday June 4th

Today Stuart found out just how posh Natalie was, after a new poll said that if you have cleaner, say supper instead of dinner and own an Aga you’re posh. The quiz showed Natalie drinking speciality teas, knowing what Prosecco was and kissing people on both cheeks – therefore being well posh! You did the quiz too and Mark got in touch to say he didn’t get a single one of the questions right - making him common as muck!

We loved your superstitions today, with Jen hissing at black cats, Lorraine Mooney not walking over 3 drains in a row, Chantal Henley not crossing on the stairs and lots of you saluting magpies, including Lisa, Emma and Alyson – who goes even further. As well as saluting, she asks Mr Magpie ‘ How’s your wife and children’…. We all seem to do it.. even if we don’t know why!

Kaz who was playing Small Talk with us, did well this week and we’ll have a brand new contestant next week. Don’t forget if you want to play, or you have a cute kid who says all sorts of unpredictable things, let us know and we’ll get you playing on the radio.

Have a great weekend and we’ll be back on Monday
S&N

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Thursday June 3rd

Today Stuart and Natalie revealed that 61% of us still hold on to our favourite childhood toy… they both have theirs, Stuart’s has no name though, and Natalie has two – brown ted and blue ted…very inventive. Lisa in Daventry still has a toy dog called Richard though who is 38 years old.. no shame in holding on to them is there?

Trimsuits are the new saviour if you like Natalie are worried about bearing all on the beach.There’s all sorts of shapes and sizes to squeeze you in a push you up.Natalie was admitting to her embarrassing Body Combat class last night, where she lost all co-ordination and forgot which was her left and right for the entire one hour class. Stuart had done just as well, falling off the running machine!

It was all about lateness today, as Stuart managed to turn up late to a friends wedding, and Heather called up to say she managed to turn up late to a wedding… as her group of friends had gone to the wrong wedding.. oops…

The news that former comedy double act Little and Large no longer speak, had the S&N asking who decides which name comes first in a couple… Faye and Jay swop it round all the time as their names rhyme. Emma in Rusden say it depends on whether its her or her husband friend as to who go first and Andy is Wellingborough said his name always goes first as it ‘sounds better’…bet there’s been some rows with that one.. and Stuart’s off to Man School to become a real man… listen here

Don’t miss the show tomorrow- it’s our one month anniversary… aaah! and we finding out about your strange OCD’s… you know the curious behaviour you do that you can’t help…

See you then S&N

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Wednesday June 2nd

So on today’s show Natalie was extremely excited about the news that the hover board from Back to the Future has been invented, it’s just not strong enough for you to get on, so no quicker way to work just yet. Stuart was equally excited about the Ghostbuster kit Lady Gaga has purchased ahead of her gig at London’s 02 Arena and wants to purchase one himself.

Happy 100th Birthday  to Jessie Westely in Abington who says chocolate is the key to her longevity! And there’s been more proof that choccy keeps away the wrinkles, to which Natalie was even more excited…despite aching from her personal trainer session the day before!  You were telling Stuart and Natalie about your strops, with Mel having a go at someone on the roundabout and realising it was her fault, Tracy locking her ex in the car and not realising till an hour later when her neighbour knocked on the door, Karl and Zoe stropping on the streets of Kettering over chocolate and BBQ’s and Rachel who had a strop at the traffic warden..

Also the news that Morris dancers are getting a make over from the costume designers at Strictly Come Dancing, including  6,594 swarovski crystals the new look outfits will be tight fitting and will show more flesh. Do you think the Northampton Morris Men will go for it? The idea is to get more of us doing it,as apparently one in four of us would Morris dance, if the clothes were better…really? Would you?

Join us tomorrow morning from 6am
S&N x

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Tuesday June 1st

On the show today Stuart and Natalie decided that we’d all be much happier if we had a three day weekend, once a month, so we asked you who we should ask to make it happen… Bob Southgate said he gave us permission and Gary Walker suggested BA might be able to help out. Keep your suggestions coming, as we think we might be onto something. How would you spend the extra day? Chasing cheese down a hill? That’s what they wanted to do in Gloucestershire this bank holiday, but they were banned due to health and safety!

There was also the news that on a Monday, the average woman takes 76 minutes getting ready…do you take over an hour in the morning? Natalie has her routine down to about eight minutes…but that’s getting up at 4.30 for you!! Amusingly the time decreases as the weeks goes on, with only 19 minutes being spent on a Friday.. no surprise also that from the outset Men spend much less, only taking 28 minutes on a Monday…

We wanted your hen and stag do stories as wedding season is well and truly upon us..the worst was Jon in Kettering who told us about how he missed his friend’s stag do and that the stag and the best man got sunburnt after being dumped naked on the roadside two weekends back when it was really hot! The poor pair were left handcuffed, drenched in eggs, flour and tomato sauce…eek! Natalie was happy to tell her tale of her most recent hen do,including a much appreciated butler in the buff!!

Back tomorrow from 6am talking about your strops so go join our facebook page and tell us about them J
S&N

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Friday May 28th SEX AND THE CITY 2 DAY!

It was all about Sex in the City 2 today on the show and a huge well done to Gemma, Lauren, Kathryn, Yvette and Theresa who won four tickets each to go and see the movie tonight at Cineworld at Sixfields, Northampton. Do have a look at all the pictures and see the video from the premiere in Leicester Square last night on our showbiz pages . And all week long we’ve heard from the ladies who make up the fab four and today it’s Samantha aka Kim Cattrell talking about being single.

Kim Cattrell talks about Samantha

 

  Ken: It's over! I told my wife about us!
  Samantha: Who is this?

You can also see pictures of Kylie who was looking stunning as ever on the red carpet and its her birthday today! We heard from her on the show, quashing any rumours of her being on the X-Factor and how excited she is about being an Auntie.

Kylie talks to Jo Parkerson

Cat our Small Talk player, didn’t quite manage to get a perfect run, but she’s our best adult outwitting a kiddie yet with 4 out of 5. Next week we’ll have a brand new contestant playing and don’t forget you can get in touch if you or your kid are up for it. And it’s another bank holiday weekend and we asked you to name and shame your partner into doing their DIY. You can still let us know on our facebook page who needs to put their tools into action.

Enjoy the bank holiday weekend, the weather is meant to be good on Monday!!

We’ll be back on Tuesday from 6am with details of how you could win a trip to Disneyland Paris
S&N

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 Thursday May 27th

Today’s show had Jonathan in Northampton admit to a fit of towel rage, throwing six towels in a pool in Ibiza after people tried to hog the sun beds whilst he was on his hols. There’s also a new book out called ‘How to predict the weather with a cup of coffee, so Stuart and Natalie tried live on air ( it has to be black coffee from beans not instant) just drop a lump of sugar (don’t stir) in it and if the bubbles are in the middle, it’ll be a fine day, but round the edge it’s gonna rain!

It was all about diets today as Natalie has started working with a personal trainer, who’s got her drinking green tea as apparently it burns up to 17% of your body fat! Bring it on! Stuart wasn’t convinced with his cuppa and wanted his strong Yorkshire tea,over the green stuff. We were finding about your diets, whilst revealing diet cheats such as diet hand gel, fat burner lip balm  and  - would you believe it ‘Skinny water’... no more skinny lattes!

We had an amazing weight loss from one of you of 65 lbs, that’s over four stone and Julie lost two stone in 12 weeks  - proving that the best way to diet, is joining one of the organised groups rather than rubbing cream on your hands, but Natalie is definitely tempted to try it!

Miranda was our SATC sassy lady on today and tomorrow we’ll hear from we’ll hear from Samantha AND we’ve got five pairs of four tickets for you and your friends to see the brand new movie, tomorrow at Cineworld in Sixfields, Northampton. Here’s our favourite Miranda quote:
Miranda: I just realized... maybe it's maturity or the wisdom that comes with age, but the witch in Hansel and Gretel -- she's very misunderstood. I mean, the woman builds her dream house and these brats come along and start eating it.

The fun doesn’t stop there as we’ll speak to Heart’s showbiz editor Jo who is going to the premiere of SATC 2 in London tonight and also we’ll be hearing from the princess of pop – Miss Kylie Minogue.

See you tomorrow when you wake up
S&N X

 

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Wednesday May 26th

 On the show today Stuart and Natalie revealed they’d gone back to school after a visit to The Duston School last night, where the pair were awarding certificates to the members of year 8 – for being fab! Natalie was told off by the Deputy Head as her mobile phone rang during the presentations and she reverted back to being an apologetic teenager, much to Stuart’s amusement.

We asked about your school memories as Stuart wants to bring back Kiss Chase in the work place, although Ann in Haddon said it had been banned at her sons school. If you feel like having a go in your workplace –  let us know how you get on! You can leave a note on our facebook page

So Britney wants to be frozen when she dies, so she can come back to life in the future, after hearing that Walt Disney has also been put in the deep freeze. Stuart told his story about working for Disney in Florida and how people always joked that you needed to watch out when using the salad bar, in case you confused Walt’s arm for a Waldolf salad!

With two days to go until SATC 2 we heard from Charlotte ( aka Kristin Davis ) as we’ve been catching up with the cast every day this week. Tomorrow we’ll here from Miranda – and here’s one of our favourite quotes from the two of them:
Charlotte: I just know no matter how good I feel about myself, if I see Christy Turlington, I just wanna give up.
Miranda: Well I just want to tie her down and force feed her lard, but that's the difference between you and me.

And we asked whether you’d been id’d buying booze in the supermarket. Cheryl is 29 and gets asked constantly. Bev is 38 and was asked just this weekend, but our oldest texter was Brian at 45, who still gets asked.. 

We’ll be back tomorrow from 6am – when you wake up
S&N

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Tuesday May 25th

What we’ve learnt from today’s show – well it seems 1 in 10 of us prefer our TV to our partner, and when it comes to your kids, daughters are more expensive than sons! Whilst Natalie has been trying build a friendship with an ex, after several years have passed – Stuart thinks it’s impossible to be friends.. but you proved him wrong with your texts. Jay in Kettering has his ex wife cut his hair, Sharon is friends with her ex and Michelle told us on our facebook page she’d managed it to.

Dame Julie Andrews was blushing as she talked about how much a piece of eye candy she thinks ‘The Rock’ is, who she’s appearing in a new movie with that is out on Friday‘ The Tooth Fairy’. Speaking of movies out… it’s 3 DAYS until SATC 2 hits our screens. We caught up with Mr Big ( Chris Noth ) talking about just how well his wardrobe has benefited from his role in Sex and The City, yet he’s still got no idea about the difference between a Jimmy Choo and a Manolo! Of course, Carrie and Mr Big’s relationship shows just how you can’t be friends with and ex and who knows what will happen in the next movie. Will Mr Big keep hold of her as Aidan is back!

One of our favourite quotes from Carrie and Mr Big:

Carrie Bradshaw: He's my boyfriend.
Mr. Big: Aren't I a little old to be introduced as your boyfriend?
Carrie Bradshaw: Point taken. From now on you'll be my man-friend.
Mr. Big: That sounds like a dog.
Carrie Bradshaw: Well if the shoe fits…

We’ll be back tomorrow from 6
S&N

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Monday May 24th

On the show today whilst finding out your burnt bits from the glorious weekend’s weather, Natalie decided to see how much you would pay for Stuart…the asking price was £20 and Karl and Zoe in Kettering offered a quid if Stuart would change their daughters nappy,Jen from the Ladies county cricket asked if she could Stuart to cheerlead at their next match against the Netherlands however Lisa offered £30 so she’s got him! See you Stu!

There was a brand new contestant on Small Talk – Cat in Stanwick is playing Ollie all week and so far she’s got one out of one… so fingers crossed she does better than our previous contestant. Don’t forget to fill in the details on the heart website if you or your cute kid would like to play.  And the news that Brad Pitt is keen to ditch the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and head to White House caught our attention. Stuart thinks Brad is too good looking to be President and then tried to cajol Natalie into admitting she had a crush on David Cameron. Not the case.. but she’d defiantly vote for Brad, given the choice.

Stuart and Natalie are both now official residents in Northamptonshire, after being in a hotel for the last three weekends. This weekend Natalie was feeling the power as a white van Woman driving her belonging up the motorway! She arrived with her van full, including an extensive shoe collection, to the shared flat whilst Stuart arrived with a few bags of stuff – say no more. So hopefully the pair won’t drive each other mad...visit our Facebook page to give tips on what we need to know about the area.

We’ll be back tmw from 6am

S&N

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Friday May 21st

Today we told you how to avoid a dull conversation by faking a phone call as 81% of us have admitted to ‘phoning a fake’ in a poll out today. Stuart claimed innocence but Natalie confessed to using it to avoid sales people in the street and event those hard working street charity workers. We also heard from Lily Allen who had been getting teary at yesterday Ivor Novello’s as she picked up three awards for her song ‘The Fear’

Stuart was reminiscing about Dinner Ladies with the news that SuBo is being asked to appear as one in Glee  - we hope she does.. and with the weather being beautiful in Northamptonshire this weekend, you were telling us how you know it’s Summer when… and you were being pretty ruthless on our Facebook page about people showing too much flesh and Emmie text in to say she didn’t like ‘bingo bat wings’.

Hopefully you get the chance to make the most of the sunshine this weekend! Finally, Alexandra Burke was chatting to us today, about what her crush on Usher and her nickname at school.

Alexandra, Part I

Alexandra, Part II

We’re off to catch some rays. Have a great weekend and we’ll be back Monday from 6am.

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Thursday May 20th

Yey – Summer’s here and we were so excited about the fact that it’s finally warming up.. This morning we were trying to get our head around the new Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville  - the next great double act? We’re not convinced – well we’re not sure what they’re meant to be, but they were unveiled to a school in East London to what seemed like a good response. You can guarantee there’ll be lots of pens, posters and t-shirts for us to spend our hard earned pennies on when they are launched in July. What do you think?

Local Rugby legend Ben Foden is online at heart.co.uk as he’s appearing as a naked centrefold in this month’s Cosmo and we asked how much it would take for you to get your kit off. Stuart was once asked to do it for money, with a strategically place Blue Peter badge ( he insisted it was a large gold one!) and may well have done if the offer was more – Natalie refused point blank even for £1million,  however Poppy in Wellingborough said she’d do it for £1million!

With the news that Cheryl Cole cringes at old pictures of herself with bad hair and clothes, Stuart talked about his ‘curtains’ hair in his Blue Peter days and Natalie had big hair, big lips and big eyebrows. Pictures aren’t going to be included as we don’t want to scare you off!

We also caught up with Fyfe Dangerfield and you can hear our chat here

and on tomorrow’s show we’ll be speaking to gorgeous Alexandra Burke, so don’t miss it.

See you tmw from 6 x

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Wednesday May 19th

Today Stuart and Natalie were getting to the bottom of whether men are better liars than woman, as a new survey has revealed that men tell on average 3 lies a day. Women tell slightly less, although Natalie thinks it is because they tell them better and don’t get found out.  Paul said on our facebook page that he thinks men have a lie gland! Stuart was amazed that a list of the top most important inventions which was released today as hair straighteners were above a knife and fork! Kimmie in Kettering called into tell us she would give up water, rather than part with her straighteners and Laura said she wouldn’t leave the house if she had to give up hers.

When it came to what you weren’t allowed to do as a kid Tasha wasn’t allowed PlayDo as her Mum said it was too messy, oh but don’t you just love the smell! Natalie had been reminiscing about the Doc Marten boots she wasn’t allowed as a teen, after enjoying the amazing array of metallic and cool Brittania boots in the Doc Marten exhibition in Northampton’s shoe museum. It’s only 9 DAYS until Sex in the City 2 comes out and to celebrate we told you about Heart’s Love Music Live which is back.

We’re giving you the chance here on Heart to win tickets to an intimate gig with The Saturdays at a glamorous London location, but not only are we giving you a night out, but we’ll bring you down to London and pampering you, with lunch and shopping trip to Selfridges – then a private Heart screening of Sex in the City 2. Now if that’s not a great excuse to sip some Cosmos, we don’t know what is.

We’ll be back tomorrow morning from 6 x

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Tuesday May 18th

On the show today there was love in the air with a guy making a Facebook page to hunt down a girl he saw on the train, who he didn’t have the guts to speak to. His efforts were almost in vain as despite having 13,500 hits he’s not found the girl but has raised over £500 for charity and bless him for trying! To check out his page click here

Stuart was adamant that old people are hopeless when it comes to using the internet despite the news today that Dame Vera Lynn is helping oldies to get to grips with technology. Silver Surfers Day is on Friday. Natalie knows of an 82 year old facebook fan that has found his half-brother  - so  was flying the flag for our wiser web users and you did too. Steve from Kettering Nan is 74 and does computer programming, Rachel’s Dad is in his 60’s and always helping her out with her tech issues and Daniel told us about the lovely 104 year old Ivy Bean who is on Twitter telling all about her friends getting telegraph’s from the Queen.

Our favourite part of the show was the news that a search has been launched today to find Britain’s funniest business names, including a chippie called A Salt and Battered and a hair dresser called Curl Up and Dye. We wanted to find out more of Northamptonshire’s finest including a hairdressers in Higham Ferrers called Tangles and, Sofa King with its entertaining cheap deal slogans and our favourite -  Jasons 'Dona' Van for kebabs.

Tomorrow on the show we will be announcing details of our next BIG Love Music Live event…so see you then at 6am

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Monday May 17th

Today’s news that the average woman leaves the house wearing £1000 worth of clothes and accessories had Natalie working out what she was wearing, which reached about £300, Stuart’s outfit was under £100 with the most expensive thing he had on being his pants. Fran text in to say her outfit was £120 and £80 of that was her engagement ring.

We also wanted to know about your names. Lynne in Northampton called to tell us how she decided to name her daughter Lara, she was inspired by the classic film Dr. Zhivago and the film’s soundtrack Lara’s theme. Natalie had a similar film story to her name, as her parents were big fans of Natalie Wood who was in West Side Story. Unfortunately Stuart’s name was the result of an argument between his parents. We were also keen to know whether your parents did the ‘Beckham’ thing of a name being inspired by where you were conceived. Mark in Wellingborough would have been called Butlin’s Bognor Regis and Natalie would have been Milton Keynes, so good job they didn’t.

Our search is now on for Northamptonshire’s best wolf whistler as world whistling champion David Morris is helping launch a Whistle While You work campaign and find the nations best builders whistle. Stuart wants to learn how to wolf whistle, so we’ve found a video for him and for you and we’ll be finding out more about the local heats that are due to be taking place in Northampton.

 

And news today about a lucky winner of £84m on the Euromillions lottery and Stuart revealed that even if he won all that money – he’d still get a kick out of buying BOGOF’s at the supermarket. Natalie was happy with the notion of a lottery win meaning no more visits to the supermarket as she’d shop online and enjoy spending her millions elsewhere.

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See you tomorrow at 6

 

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Friday 14th May

What a show this morning, firstly huge congratulations to Karina in Kingsthorpe who won the FINAL pair of tickets to see Michael Buble at the O2 Arena in London this Sunday.

All morning we were giving you some Buble facts, so if you’re going to a pub quiz and something comes up about the Canadian crooner, hopefully you’ll be sorted!

Stuart was excited to learn yet another bra fact on today’s show, as it’s been an educating week for him - there’s a new Japanese bra that grows rice!

It was all about your celebrity dopplegangers too as Stuart’s friend had said he thought Natalie looked like Lucy Benjamin from East Enders, you decide...

...its something Natalie had heard before, along with Alex Kingston and even SJP! Stuart hasn’t had as glamorous a lookey likey, being told he looks like Stephen Hendry. But you had some great ones with Leslie in Northampton looking like Jamie Lee Curtis and Nicola – Lady Gaga.

You can here the outcome of today’s Small Talk with Katrina in Kingsthorpe Vs our cute kid Amy – right here… she didn’t do that well at all. Not managing to outwit Amy once this week. Let’s hope next week’s contestant does better...

Friday's Small Talk

So have a fab weekend, the weather is getting warmer – hoorah and don’t forget to join our facebook page , just search for Heart Breakfast with Stuart and Natalie and let us know how you are. On Monday’s show we want to hear about your name... is there a story behind it? Or maybe you could tell us how you came to name your children...

See you Monday from 6 x

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Thursday 13th May

Hey hey!
 
This morning Stuart insisted that there are still places it is unacceptable for a man to moisturise... .and before you think the worst we are talking hands here!! Natalie always carries some hand cream with her as do the majority of the female population but you’d never catch most men doing that... or so we thought till Kevin rang us up;

6 ft tall
20 stone
tattoos
and said he did moisturise and whats more his wife gave him a manicure and a pedicure and he moisturizes his shaved head!

We also talked about your impulse buys - you know those things you buy and it seemed like a good idea at the time!  Stephanie called us up with possibly the biggest mistake a £1000 swimming pool that she has not yet installed! Stuart offered her 50p for it but for some reason she didn’t go for it!

We’re back tomorrow with the very last pair of tickets to see Michael Buble’s sold out show in London this Sunday night! These really are money can’t buy tickets and you could win them! Make sure you switch us on in the morning when you wake up for your chance to see the sexiest crooner in town!

See you in the morning

x

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Wednesday 12th May

 On the show today Stuart and Natalie had a giggle at Louis Walsh’s expense, as he’s got a different kind of Ready Break glow... in fact it’s the Walsh and Glow due to him teaming up with Tango to promote their fake tan wipes. We’re not kidding...

Stuart was flabbergasted that bras exist in a size HH, we won’t dwell on this too much – but do vote for Nicola Thorneycroft from Long Buckby who is down to the last 30 curvy ladies flying the flag for Northamptonshire in the Star in a Bra competition

You were sharing the song words you or you’re kids have got wrong with us this morning. Vicky in Hackleton’s told us about her five year old son James and his version of the Bee Gee’s ‘Stayin Alive’ which he sang as ‘stabilize stabilize’ and Sue In Rushden’s teenage daughter also got this one wrong singing ‘Steak and a knife, Steak and a knife’. Our other favourites were a class of kids who sung the Kings of Leon ‘Sex is on Fire’ as ‘Socks are on Fire’, one texter thought Beyonce’s Halo was ‘hit me like a raisin’ – the actual lyric is  ‘hit me like a ray of sun’

and our Small Talk contestant Katrina failed once again to outsmart our cute, yet extremely unpredictable kid Amy in our brand new game where kids Vs adults. Both of them will be back tomorrow to play again and we’ll be reminding you how to get your hands on the last pair of Michael Buble tickets for his sold out show at London’s 02 this Sunday!!

xx

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Tuesday 11th May

So on the show today, Stuart wanted to know the things he shouldn’t say to women after a friend of his did the cringe-worthy classic of giving up his seat on the train to a woman who he thought was pregnant and told her so... she wasn’t! Natalie has got her eye on Saints player Ben Foden who has bared all for this month’s Cosmopolitan magazine. She’s hoping to speak more to him... watch this space...

Stuart and Natalie had been to Towcester Races the night before, and made bets more on the jockey’s appearance than the odds! Stuart didn’t win a penny but Natalie had one of her horse comes in and got a few quid back from her borrowed tenner!

Also yesterday we met Adam from White Arches Caravans who wears shorts ALL YEAR ROUND... even in the snow! We think he may be Northampton’s bravest man – do you know someone braver?

We asked for your unusual pet names, and heard from Alison in Duston. She’s got two white German Shepherds called Ghost and Buster – her husband has a right old laugh calling their names out whilst walking them. You sent some great texts and we’ve included some of our favourites here, as we couldn’t mention them all:  Rob in Northampton said his sister’s dog is called – dfer (d for dog), Bec from Finedon said her Dad had an iguana called John Barrington Smithe! There was a dog called Tupence as no-one would give 2pence for her - aaaah! And Laura in Northampton has a cat called Chin, because she has a big chin!

Don’t forget – on Friday’s show we’re giving you the chance to win the last pair of tickets for Michael Buble’s sold out show at the 02 in London on Sunday May 16th!

See you tomorrow from 6

x

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Monday 10th May

Oh what a mess! This morning Natalie reveled the mess of Stuart's car as he’s been giving her a lift to work each day, one item found was a green JLS whistle… that and an array of out of date chicken sandwich wrappers that were ready to walk out of the car…! We asked you to let us know what was the messiest area of your life and we had 14 year old Lilly in Northampton confess to the state of her bedroom, and Dave in Rushden talked about his wife's car which sounds even worse than Stuart's…!

Stuart soon got his own back telling a tale off Natalie’s date over the weekend, where the guy had presented her with a box of chocolates with a montage of her face on it – the trials and tribulations of online dating... There was a brand new contestant on Small Talk – Katrina, who was trying to work out what our cute kid Amy was going to say... she didn’t do too well today, so fingers crossed she’ll be better tomorrow as it’s her wedding anniversary!

Natalie’s family do at the weekend, included a conversation with a three year old who asked Natalie why she didn’t have a daughter and offered to make her one! Stuart also offered to make Natalie a baby and as she got slightly worried, he explained he could use his Blue Peter skills and make one out of a fairy liquid bottle…

Have a great day, see you tomorrow from 6am!
xx

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Friday 7th May

 Poor old Justin Beiber.

On a list of the top 50 women most Googled he comes in at number 7!! Does that mean he is more of a woman than celebrities featured lower down on the list like Angelina Jolie and Katie Price?! Or maybe it’s just because his voice hasn’t broken yet!

This morning Stuart revealed that when he was younger his mum made him wear his hair quite long because she thought it was blonde and beautiful but that meant that people would sometimes mistake him for a girl!!
We asked you whether you had ever been mistaken for a member of the opposite sex and Julie from Rushden said her daughter kept getting mistaken for a boy, but she is having the last laugh as she went on to win UK top Model for 2010!!!

Hope you’ve got some great plans for the weekend... Natalie is off to a big family celebration - all the relatives will be present (lets hope they all get on!) Stuart wants to go and see this movie with the most rubbish name ever... Hot Tub Time Machine . It could fall into the "it’s so bad it’s good" category, or it could be the Doctor’s new tardis!   

Have a great weekend and see you Monday
x

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Thursday 6th May

On the show today Natalie reveled how she's making the most of staying in a hotel by having some me time and ploughing through a box set of Gossip Girl. Stuart got all excited about having a celeb voice for his Sat Nav with the news that Darth Vader giving instructions making your journey to the dark side less bumpy!

Our favourite showbiz tale was that Lady Gaga has put a load of fairground mirrors in her house to have some fun with her friends when they visit... Makes you wonder what you could do to your house if money was no object! Tomorrow we want to hear about your nosy neighbours and we're giving you the chance to have breakfast on us.

Join us from 6 to find out where! Until then, enjoy your day!

Stuart & Natalie x

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Wednesday 5th May

So today on Heart Breakfast it seemed that pop’s gone mad with an array of artists dabbling in musical theatre. The news that JLS have based their next single on ‘The Hills Are Alive’ from The Sound of Music got us wondering about the video, will the boys be dressed as nuns or in Lederhosen. Then there was Kylie’s news that she is planning a musical based on her back catalogue and Sting is writing something for Broadway, about ‘his world’ – do we care. We started to wonder about the casting for a Super Pop Musical, not forgetting that SuBo apparently will be rapping with Lady GaGa, so we’d have to include them that with the JLS boys in their nuns outfits.. we’d definitely be buying tickets.

You were also letting us know what really annoys you when you go to the supermarket, whether it was people dawdling in the aisles or staff not able to tell you where the mayo was as it wasn’t in their ‘section’ not forgetting being bashed on the ankles by crazied trolley drivers. The good news is our Heart Angels will be at Morrison’s in Kettering from 8am tomorrow giving you Breakfast on Us, hopefully easing any stress from your supermarket shop.

Finally in our brand new competition Small Talk, William outfoxed Tracy. Make sure you join us tomorrow to find whether he gets two in a row!

We’ll be back from 6am in the morning, have a good day

Stuart & Natalie x

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Tuesday 4th May

Well we made it through are first show with Natalie confessing she doesn’t do sausage in the morning …….…ok so it was 10 discounted cocktail sausages but it’s the thought that counts! 

I bought them in for her as it was Breakfast on Stu, as all week you can have Breakfast on Us…listen out as tomorrow the Heart Angels will be at Tesco’s in Daventry from 8.00am till 10.00am!!

Thanks for all your lovely texts and emails today which made us feel so at home and we laughed at all your doolally moments from the weekend including the guy who tried a pair of trousers on and then for some bizarre reason put his shoes back on but forgot his trousers!!!  Makes me putting hair gel on my face or Natalie spraying hairspray under her arms seem quite normal!

Join us tomorrow when amongst other things we’ll be finding out what really annoys you when you’re in the Supermarket…..has anyone ran their trolley into the back of your legs….are you the type of person who eats their way around the store….that’s not right!!

Get in touch via our email at the Breakfast pages at Heart.co.uk ………see you in the morning!

x

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