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Ellie Taylor played Flo 'Sassy' Collins in the massively popular series, Ted Lasso, but she has admitted that she didn’t know it was going to be as big as it was.
The stand-up comedian and actor joined the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with webuyanycar to talk about her upcoming new live tour, when the conversation turned to the football-based TV show.
When Nick Grimshaw - who is hosting for a couple of weeks while Chris is on his summer holiday - asked Ellie whether, when making the show, she knew it was going to be a runaway success, she replied: “Absolutely not. No idea.”
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Ellie continued: “I've got the intuition of a bin bag. I've got nothing. I don't know. So, I did my scenes, I hadn't read the script of the whole show, didn't really know what was going on, couldn't work out the tone of it, because the tone is quite individual.”
She added: “So, I thought, 'I probably won't tell anyone I've done this. There we go. Job done. It's fine.' And then it came out and a few people said they watched it and I was like, ‘Oh well, I don't have Apple TV.’”
Ellie featured in all three seasons of the smash hit, multi-award-winning Apple TV series, alongside Jason Sudeikis. The actor told Grimmy: “Eventually, people kept telling me how good it was and I was like ‘Go on then, we'll get another subscription shall we?’, watched it, and I was like ‘Oh it is really good!’
“Me and my husband really enjoyed watching it, and it was such a gift of a part to play Sassy. How lucky to be involved in such a show that is so beloved by so many people.”
The Ted Lasso star also admitted that she wasn't keen on auditioning in the first place. Read why here.
Ellie is heading out on a nationwide tour, called Palavering, next April. “Palavering means to talk unproductively and at length, and I thought, ‘Well if that isn't me and stand-up in a nutshell, I don't know what is,’" she said.
“I've started, I did a work-in-progress last night.”
On how the work-in-progress show went, she said: “It was okay! It was my first proper gig back since I had the baby.”
Ellie is married to reporter, Phil Black. They have two children, one daughter and one son, who was born in November 2023.
“It's been a good eight months,” she said of her time offstage. “Quite the gap but, yeah, it was okay and I did 15 minutes. It was really nice to get back on stage and you remember that instant feedback.”
The ex-Strictly Come Dancing contestant added: “At home, when I write this stuff, I think it's the funniest stuff in the world and I always go in so hopeful and optimistic and then I try it out and go, ‘Oh god that was awful, that bit.’"
On performing stand-up, she said: “It's mad that anyone would want to do it. It’s like, why would you put yourself through this? I don't know, I need to talk to a therapist!
“I think I just really need approval!”
She added: "It's so stressful, the stakes are so high, but when it goes well there's nothing that beats that buzz."
Palavering starts in April in Portsmouth. Tickets are available now at livenation.co.uk.
For more great interviews listen to The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with webuyanycar weekdays from 6:30am on Virgin Radio, or catch up on-demand here.
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