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G Spot Brekkie – International Women’s Day!

Sun, 17 Mar 2019 06:51:45 +0000

Gillian and Claire are back with their usual silliness and this week they’re talking all things female for International Women’s Day – Queen Elizabeth’s Instagram presence! Joanna Lumley’s breathy elocution! Julie Bishop’s exercise routines! And their near religious experience watching Christine and the Queens perform in Melbourne.

Originally aired Friday 8th March 2019

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INTERVIEW: Alan Fletcher AKA Dr. Karl Kennedy!

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 07:25:58 +0000

Claire has gone AWOL so Gillian and Andrew are going it alone. And they have got none other than Alan Fletcher aka Neighbours’ Dr. Karl Kennedy on the phone in his pyjamas. As one of the most beloved actors in an Australian soap it seems not even a scripted cardiac event could finish the good doctor off! In this brekkie quickie Alan chats about Neighbours fame, his talent for singing as well as recent collaborations with friend Bobby Valentine.

Aired Friday 8th February 2019

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G Spot Brekkie – Maria Callas’ Dieting Secrets

Fri, 08 Feb 2019 04:45:30 +0000

The G Spot breakfast show is back in podcast form! The team, Gillian and Claire, bring you music and banter in a show they’ve definitely not just thrown together!

This week the pair cover a variety of stories – which may or may not be true – including the *real* reason opera singer Maria Callas got so thin; 20th Century sopranos; desserts named after famous people; the controversy surrounding a statue of Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher; distracting news stories in the time of Brexit; and is Theresa May really an algorithm?

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INTERVIEW: Lauren Elizabeth does Joni

Tue, 22 Jan 2019 05:35:06 +0000

Lauren Elizabeth is a singer/songwriter from Melbourne, whose musical passions span the genres of soul, folk, blues and country. Lauren phones in to The G-Spot for a chat about the return of her live show ‘This is Joni’ – a celebration of the art and music of the legendary Joni Mitchell. Gillian and Clare also whet our appetites with a little preview of Lauren’s version of ‘Both Sides Now’.

Lauren Elizabeth will be performing her show ‘This is Joni‘ at the Firefly, St. Kilda, on Friday, 1st Feb at 7 pm.

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GSpot Brekkie: All Aboard the Member Ship

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 17:05:39 +0000

The GSpot team are the first ship in the radiothon sea, blowing their fog horn as they sail the sound waves. Their plan is to torture their listeners with novelty songs until they hand over loot for new memberships, renewals or donations. In the face of ‘a shit storm of crap songs’ the listeners remain buoyant and happily pay up as Gillian and Claire are almost swept overboard by the horrors of The Chicken Song, and Greta serenely pilots the ship, along with 24 new crew members, to a safe harbour.

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GSpot Brekkie: Royal Wedding (Not So) Special

Mon, 28 May 2018 01:36:53 +0000

The Royal Wedding has been much anticipated by The GSpot team over the last 3 weeks … but the actual event proved a bit of a fizzer … Claire couldn’t get past the worst telemovie ever … Gillian lost the plot with the bishop … and while Greta enjoyed the event she had trouble with her party prep when her Grandmothers wedding dress wouldn’t fit on her (adjustable) dressmakers dummy.

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GSpot Brekkie: Hopelessly Devoted to Delta

Wed, 23 May 2018 22:04:59 +0000

It’s the day before the Royal Wedding and Gillian and Clair haven’t been invited to the soiree Greta is holding for the event. They wonder what food she is preparing and ask the listeners to come up with a suitable dish to take to a Royal Wedding shindig. The winner gets a copy of the Delta Goodrem CD Album, I Honestly Love You released as the new TV series Olivia, a bio of Olivia Newton John, hits your TV screens.

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GSpot Brekkie: Live and Let Die

Wed, 23 May 2018 02:25:44 +0000

The GSpot team (+Greta; – Andrew) celebrate how age only sometimes wearies the over nineties. This week, 104 year old Australian scientist Dr David Goodall, took life into his own hands and role modeled what to do when its time to say good-bye. Meanwhile, the newly elected President of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad and HRH Queen Elizabeth II , both 92 years young, showed they still have plenty of living to do.

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GSpot Brekkie: Dirty Mystic Pizza

Fri, 18 May 2018 00:37:22 +0000

Claire and Gillian are giving away a copy of Dirty Computer, third mega hit album for Janelle Monae. The task for the lucky listener is to come up with the best signature pizza topping. There is no agreement among the team – Claire is a traditionalist; Andrew sees a pizza base as a blank canvas for creativity and Gillian likes avocado on hers. Claire gets a bit tetchy about the idea of Peking Duck pizzas and the pizza wars begin.

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GSpot Brekkie: Disco Ducking Dazzle

Fri, 04 May 2018 10:14:25 +0000

This week Gillian and Claire are giving away a copy of Samantha Jade’s homage to the disco era: ‘Best of My love’, and listeners have to share the disco song they never want to hear again OR their absolute fave. The team get so many responses they can’t tell if the songs are the worst or the best (except for Disco Duck which no-one likes). Gillian breaks into song a few times, Claire never wants to hear Tainted Love again (it’s not even disco), while Andrew does a death defying workout to Popcorn’s Techno Trance (remix).

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GSpot Brekkie: Retro Risk Taking

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:57:47 +0000

Gillian and Clair are giving away tickets to the movie Breath, based on Tim Winton’s novel of growing up and learning to take risks in the 70’s. To win, listeners have to tell about their biggest risk. While the team riff on 70’s risks – macrame fashion, parenting, lead paint etc – listeners tell of risks they took falling in love, wearing double denim, starting fires and building canons in the backyard.

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GSpot Brekkie: Celebrity Shennanigans

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 01:16:45 +0000

Anything that happens in the entertainment world is grist for the GSpot mill … today they do the job on Justin B, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry’s Kiss too Far, Claire’s deep attraction to Adam Levine and just exactly what is it that makes the eminently forgettable Ed Sheeran so popular?? The lion tattoo perhaps??

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GSpot Brekkie: Chocolate Alchemy

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 06:52:05 +0000

Andrew reports gold bars raining over Russia, Claire transforms them into triangle chocolate and Gillian asks listeners to help ID the most influential chocolate bar ever. As she can’t name the candidates on air, Claire has to sing advertising jingles. In the ensuing mayhem, Greta asks if she can give herself the sack.

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GSpot Brekkie: Thinking outside The Square

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:19:56 +0000

The team are giving away movie tickets to see The Square, winner of the Palm D’or at Cannes this year. They ask listeners to nominate their least favourite art work … we learn a lot about the team’s differing artistic preferences and the choice of winner proves controversial.

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GSpot Brekkie: Jessica’s Eurovision Song Debut

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:07:49 +0000

While not all the team are huge Eurovision fans EVERYONE is 100% behind Jessica Mauboy to win this year, with her heart warming song “We Got Love’, played on Joy for the first time, right here on the GSpot.

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GSpot Brekkie: The Band’s Back Together

Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:14:14 +0000

After the summer sojourn the entire GSpot team: Claire, Gillian, Greta and Andrew are back on air, regaling us with tales of … the effect of coffee on housing choices; possums giving the finger; the do’s and don’ts of kaftan wearing … as well as some pertinent insights on International Women’s Day.

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GSpot Brekkie: Heatstroke and Tiger Snakes

Mon, 26 Feb 2018 01:29:28 +0000

Claire and Gillian discuss Claire’s Spanish heat stroke and deadly snakes found in the Melbourne CBD … listeners advise Gillian which animals keep snakes at bay … mongooses, wedge tail eagles, kookaburras and, if all else fails, a shovel.

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GSpot Brekkie: I’ve Humiliated Myself

Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:18:05 +0000

Gillian and Claire DIY the news and its all very average … Gillian cracks under pressure and gives up Claire’s phone number, the head of the Victoria Police integrity unit impersonates Dean Martin and insults his superiors, Labour pollies have a butter knife altercation at Parliament House … and then there is Barnaby … what IS wrong with these people.

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GSpot Brekkie: Is this IT????

Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:55:14 +0000

A remake of Picnic at Hanging Rock as a 6-part TV series has been a hit at the Berlin Film Festival – but Claire is underwhelmed by all things Picnic. With help from the listeners she and Gillian nominate other much loved movies that really pissed them off – including The English Patient, Look Both Ways, Notting Hill, Love Actually and everything (except The Shining) by Stanley Kubrick .

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GSpot Brekkie: Politics on the Nose

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:19:04 +0000

Claire and Gillian ponder the latest political shenanigans and how effective the public bollocking the PM gave Barnaby will be … meanwhile President Trump deflects allegations of an affair by porn star Stormy Daniels.

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GSpot Brekkie: Too Busy for Eurovision

Sun, 18 Feb 2018 20:21:01 +0000

Claire and Gillian discuss the impact of their busy lives and the need to outsource everyday tasks … Gillian feels like she’s living in an episode of Ab Fab while Claire can’t keep up with Eurovision

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GSpot Brekkie: Have Hamster Will Travel

Sun, 18 Feb 2018 20:08:54 +0000

Gillian is upset about the untimely demise of an emotional support hamster en route to Florida … meanwhile Claire is developing her own approach to providing traffic updates … they both learn about the hitherto unknown attractions of suburban Greensborough.

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GSpot Brekkie: One in Every Family

Sun, 18 Feb 2018 19:54:15 +0000

As Meghan Merkle’s long lost relatives come out of the woodwork Claire reckons the Queen must be having regrets about the latest royal marriage to an American … but she and Gillian both agree that every family has at least one member they all try to avoid … and maybe its them!!

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GSpot Brekkie: The Heat is ON

Sat, 20 Jan 2018 23:46:33 +0000

Sitting in the studio as the temperature rises to 40c Gillian and Greta ponder what it must be like at the tennis where temperatures are reaching 67c and share highlights of their summer breaks .. after 22 years Gillian finally became a true Aussie when she cracked boogy board riding … while Greta obsessed over a National Geographic type spider spinning beautiful webs in her garden.

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GSpot Brekkie: Best Gay Couples Ever

Sat, 20 Jan 2018 21:38:31 +0000

This week Gillian and Greta are giving away a double pass to the first ever theatrical adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, at Gasworks Arts Park for Midsumma. Based on Oscar Wilde’s infamous letter, written in 1897 from Reading Gaol to his lover and betrayer, listeners are asked to ring and share their picks for the best gay couple ever.

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GSpot Brekkie: Master Class with Amanda Muggleton

Sat, 20 Jan 2018 21:11:35 +0000

Amanda Muggleton phones in to talk with Gillian about her starring role as Maria Callas in the hit show, Master Class. It’s based on a series of classes the ageing diva delivered to students at the Julliard School in New York. We learn about the women behind the legend as she shares her life’s wisdom with the students and the audience. It’s opened to rave reviews and its on at Southbank now.

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GSpot Brekkie: Getting to Know Greta Better

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 07:14:11 +0000

Last year Gillian and Claire returned with the G Spot, newly evolved into a brekkie show, and with a new team member, Greta. From day one Greta showed she was up to the task of operating the panel, putting her own spin on news, sport, weather and traffic reports (until newsreader Andrew the Rattler came on board) AND keeping Claire and Gillian on track. This podcast contains highlights of Greta’s journey from newbie to cult leader and how Gillian and Claire learnt that Greta Knows Better. It’s been hilarious – we can’t wait to hear more of their shenanigans in 2018.

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GSpot Brekkie: Live and Let Whitney

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 05:26:08 +0000

Paul McCartney is in town and inspired by his great James Bond song Live and Let Die, Gillian and Claire decided that to win tickets to the The Greatest Love of All: The Whitney Houston Show listeners need to tell them which Whitney Huston song would have made a great Bond theme.

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GSpot Brekkie: Relatively Speaking

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 03:06:59 +0000

Maybe its the time of year, but stories on topics ranging from rituals to excessive dog poo fines to the theft of a David Bowie doll from the Nutcracker Village ALL remind Claire of her relatives. Carolyn, on a break from Xmas shopping, drops by with her grandson, Archer.

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GSpot Brekkie: When Good Eggs Go Bad

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 01:37:07 +0000

Taking as their inspiration a new Xmas culinary delight devised by the Brits – the battered deep fried mince pie – the GSpot team, and their listeners, discuss a range of food stuffs that assault the senses, including rock melon; squishy pears; 100 year eggs; Korean balut; lentil soup; blue cheese and the pointlessness of cucumbers.

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GSpot Brekkie: Whats Yours Is Mine

Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:51:28 +0000

Claire reports that stealing someone else’s lunch is the No 1 workplace issue … Gillian ponders if Xmas is break up time and whether the practice of the last minute grab – where you get your soon to be Ex to do repairs or hand over an object of desire – is as common as she thinks. Greta shares the best ever recipe for Xmas chocolate crackles that she got from her Ex before they parted ways.

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GSpot Brekkie: Political Animals

Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:29:18 +0000

Greta has a theory about those who voted NO in the Same Sex Marriage Survey. Gillian explores the reaction to Triple J moving the Hottest 100 from Australia Day and Claire is amazed that gorillas would fight over rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb.

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GSpot Brekkie: Call Yourself a CrocoCult

Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:11:26 +0000

Greta is disturbed by a story about a short (1.5 meter) crocodile said to have attacked some British tourists. Gillian is more interested in getting her take on cults. She and Claire decide the whole show has become the Cult of Greta (who knows better) complete with short hair cuts and flowing gowns.

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GSpot Brekkie: Having the Royals for Breakfast

Sat, 02 Dec 2017 20:54:55 +0000

Claire, Gillian and Greta discuss the big issues around the latest royal wedding – will it solve the problems of post-Brexit Britain? what will the newbie be called? does growing up on an estate make you royal? how do you cook a chook when you’re down on your knees? are they a brother-sister couple? is the cost vs entertainment a value proposition? should you wear a hat at the street party? Luckily the listeners keep them on track and stop them from getting too mired, wired and tired.

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GSpot Brekkie: Animal Types

Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:44:01 +0000

Whilst admiring the meerkat pups born at Melbourne Zoo the team ponder their animal types. Is Gillian a meerkat or a giraffe? Is Greta a field mouse or a vole ? And was that school boy right when he told 13 year old Claire that she resembled Dr Zira????

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GSpot Brekkie: Secret Santa Insurrection

Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:21:43 +0000

Gillian and Claire think we should give up the Secret Santa caper and stop supporting the plastics industry by buying cheap token gifts nobody wants … Greta goes rogue and the listeners provide some interesting variations on the theme.

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GSpot Brekkie: Bauble Action

Sat, 11 Nov 2017 05:03:58 +0000

Xmas is almost upon us and Greta owns up to an hereto unknown obsession with balls … shiny ones on Xmas trees. She has taken to trawling the internet finding evermore strange (and expensive) baubles. Gillian catches the bug and waxes lyrical about thematic Xmas decorations as Greta fantasizes about having the campiest Xmas tree in town; complete with prawn and lobster baubles.

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GSpot Brekkie: Deal Breaker

Sat, 11 Nov 2017 04:46:57 +0000

What behavior drives you to the point of no return in a share house or a relationship? Greta, Gillian and the listeners discuss deal breakers that have driven them to jump ship or push the other person out. Warning: Includes discussion of exposed gussets.

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GSpot Brekkie: All Souls Day

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:39:54 +0000

Its the morning after the night before and Gillian and Claire swap stories about their Halloween nights. We learn about Spooktober; why dark chocolate and red wine are such a great combination (and how they scare away trick or treaters); the deleterious effects of fizz balls and Halloween donuts, and get some good advice on how to survive a ride on the ghost train.

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GSpot Brekkie: Glitteratti Glitterfarty

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:37:43 +0000

Greta and Gillian ponder the new trend of edible glitter on your cappuccino … does it dissolve? or what? Greta lives in a glitter house with oodles of glitter for every occasion – she reckons the downside to this party favourite is that it gets into every nook and cranny. On the subject of parties Andrew does a spot of investigative journalism on some Canadian shenanigans.

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GSpot Brekkie: Nup to the Cup

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:19:53 +0000

Its Spring Racing Carnival and the party is on!!! Gillian and Greta think its a shame that so many horses lose their lives to “The Sport of Kings” … so with the help of the listeners they come up with some alternative Spring Carnival ideas – that could be just as much fun – and keep St Johns just as busy.

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GSpot Brekkie: Lady Mondegreen at the Airport

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 22:45:48 +0000

Gillian, Greta and Claire discuss the origins of the term mondegreen – and with the help of the listeners work out what an airport needs to entertain passengers like Clare – who miss a flight and have to wait 9 hours for the next one. But they can’t escape Lady Mondegreen, and the whole team join with Stevie Wonder to give a rousing rendition of Luke and Phyllis are Lovers.

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GSpot Brekkie: All Hallows Eve

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 22:13:45 +0000

As Halloween approaches Clare ponders what its all about? what does it mean? where does it come from? Greta shares details about her costume for a big Halloween bash – and gets some sage advice on the risks associated with making and wearing paper mache masks – and we hear ghost stories aplenty, as the walls between this world and the next start to thin, and the spirits of the dead draw near.

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GSpot Brekkie: Short Changed

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 14:47:33 +0000

It’s gonna be a hot one; the team discuss the etiquette of shorts and Clare is glad she doesn’t live in Queensland. Other matters that come up short this week are the NBN – letting down the people of Hoppers Crossing and Lisa Wilkinson – deemed not deserving of as much moolah as her fellow breakfast host Karl Stevanovic.

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GSpot Brekkie: Scars, Strains and Superfans

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 02:54:29 +0000

Clair and Gillian ‘go rogue’ to talk about scars vs bruises, and if spatial awareness will increase with age and reduce their incidence (spoiler alert: NO); ponder the various strains of Vitamin B yeast spread and discuss the psychology of Super Fans, including Gillian’s experience at a Kate Bush concert.

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GSpot Brekkie: I’m Outta Here

Sat, 28 Oct 2017 23:50:34 +0000

Tanty-throwing tennis players get Clair, Gillian and Greta going – on things they have quit. Learn about Clair’s issues with baked goods; where Gillian has never felt more herself; when the unflappable Andrew felt huffy puffy and what Greta had to quit because she was just too popular. As well as stories from our listeners about what drove them to flip the bird in spectacular fashion.

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G Spot Brekkie: Dior Dynasty

Sat, 28 Oct 2017 23:43:43 +0000

Gillian and Clare have tickets to the House of Dior at the NGV to give away. This reminds them of the fashion icons on 80’s TV show Dynasty which is about to be remade; so they ask listeners to nominate who could play the roles of Alexis and Krystal Carrington with just the right amount of bitchiness. Their hilarious responses have the team pondering all things fashion, a revival of shoulder pads and a job Clare didn’t get at Tits R Us.

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G Spot Brekkie: Sisterhood in the Booth of Truth

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:01:00 +0000

Clare gets into the Booth of Truth to tell a story on behalf of a sister that involves serious vacuuming, super glue and Clare getting grounded for no fault of her own … and it doesn’t stop there … she also tells the tale of raucous behaviour by another sister, which attracted police attention and landed her in the village jail.

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G Spot Brekkie: Getting your head around …

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:44:57 +0000

Clare, Greta and Gillian have to get their heads around some key research issues. The effect of teenage girls on their fathers and brothers … Greta and Clare agree to disagree with Dutch researchers on this. And the effect of sugar on everyone’s health … Gillian gets some advice from the others that she’s not too happy about it.

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G Spot Brekkie: Bitten by a Bird

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:35:26 +0000

Gillian gets attacked by a parrot when out walking her dog and may have the Khaleesi virus … Greta is bemused by the shape of a duck’s penis … and Clare is laughing on the other side of her face.

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