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My Saturday

Joe Sugg on boxing, lunch in the park and cooking curry

- Joe Sugg

8.30am I treat myself and don’t set an alarm at the weekend, but still wake up early. My girlfriend Dianne [Buswell, a ballroom dancer], who I met while on Strictly, loves to get lots done. 9am With Dianne being a dancer, she has to stay active, so we head straight to a Sweatbox class. 10am Breakfast is a Dianne special – a pancake stack with yogurt, Biscoff spread and Nutella, with blueberrie­s and bananas on top. 10.30am I used to have acne, so before starting Strictly I went to a dermatolog­ist. It cleared up, but I still keep to my regime: Obagi’s Profession­al-c Serum 10% L-ascorbic Acid Vitamin C Serum, Embryoliss­e moisturise­r and Heliocare sun cream. 10.40am I’ve just bought a 1966 Volkswagen T1 camper van and made a great driving playlist – the Rolling Stones and Kings of Leon. I listen to that while I’m getting dressed. Midday We walk to the lake at Battersea Park, near where we live in London, and hop on the pedalos.

1pm Lunch at the Pear Tree Café in the park – I go for scrambled eggs with maple-cured bacon on sourdough and Dianne has figs and ricotta on toast, with a beetroot latte, which tastes like earth.

A heron we call Derek tries to nick our leftovers. 3pm We come home and upload a Youtube video of us together – usually we play pranks on one another and get our audience to try them at home. 4pm

I’ve got a projector in my lounge, and we have a cup of tea in front of a film. If something doesn’t grab Dianne’s attention in the first five minutes she’s not interested, but every now and then we crack it. 7pm When Dianne isn’t doing

Strictly and I’m not performing in [the musical] Waitress ,wecook curry – the hotter the better for her, whereas I’m a korma sort, so we find a middle ground. 9pm

I put on a playlist and have a long bath with Epsom salts. My bathroom is full of houseplant­s and candles. 10.30pm I read in bed – at the moment it’s Psychedeli­c Apes: From Parallel Universes to Atomic Dinosaurs – the Weirdest Theories of Science and History by Alex Boese. I quite like deep stuff like that.

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