STAR ON WHY SHE FEELS BETTER THAN EVER
a little bit of a memoir. This onee is like Girl Interrupted meets Trainspotting otting and it’s about all the stuff I’ve been through.
“It’s about all the bits and pieces that have gone on … what it really is like to get sectioned and come out the other end. It’s been quite emotional.
“I’ve had to shut it a few times and think, ‘Man I can’t go through it again.’ But then I think that I have come out the other end.
“I’m really happy and my hair is coming back – blonde, this time, not black, and I have huge eyelashes and am feeling like I can climb mountains.”
Gail isn’t kidding. She recently completed a 50km trek across mountains in England and Wales for Mind, the mental health charity.
Her next job won’t be quite as daunting – as she jokes about her celebrity life on new panel show pilot The Fame Game.
She said: “When they said it was a panel show about celebrity and that it was going to be funny I thought, ‘I’m in.’ I’ve been doing quite a bit of stand-up in the last year or so and quite enjoy it once you get over the initial feeling of being sick.
“I’ve not died yet and touch wood that’s not going to happen. I just do observational stuff like conversations on the way in in the taxi. The longest I’ve done is 20 minutes.
“It’s good if you go to a club and they’ve had a few drinks and they get a bit bolshy and you are up there and have got your wits about you. They are easier to take down when they are drunk.
“I think, ‘ What is the worst that can happen – they don’t laugh?’”
Gail Porter appears on The Fame Game with Fern Brady, Bruce Fummey and Kieron Nicholson on Friday, May 29, at 1.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland. For free tickets to the recording this Sunday, May 24, at 4pm at
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