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Play it for laughs: performing on stage in Leeds in 2017. Photograph: Shirlaine Forrest/Getty Images I also want to empower people, and I think I do that for a lot of women’: Katherine Ryan wears dress by Roksanda Selfridges (selfridges.com). Photograph: Dean Chalkley/The Observer I don't understand the people that say the book "made them cry" or that it's "inspiring". She comes across to me as not so much audacious - but obnoxious. Loud, rude and inconsiderate. And yet constantly crying over the littlest things, flying off the handle (without finding out the full facts), bouncing from one man to another, trying to flirt with Stephen Hawking yada yada. This is not a woman who behaves like a mature adult. Jessica wasn’t my sister or my best friend, and I realise I’ve centred myself quite a lot here but that’s because I’m writing a book and her life and brutal murder is something I still consider often, nearly 20 years later. He hovered over me to listen, not because he believed there was any real problem but because I was generally a little shit teenager who was probably lying and had liar pals.I’m often asked how I developed my lurid level of courage and assurance and for tips on how others can match. The Audacity is my chance to share my blueprint for just that. You will learn: Katherine will soon be seen hosting primetime BBC Two jewellery-making competition series, All That Glitters. She hosted the marquee all-female special of Channel 4's Cats Does Countdown and was a team captain on the most recent series of 8 Out of 10 Cats for E4. Katherine also co-hosted C4's 2019 tentpole Alternative Election Special with Krishnan Guru Murthy. She has been a stalwart on all the UK's major panel shows and has co-hosted six series of Your Face or Mine, alongside judging four series of Roast Battle for Comedy Central. Ryan is refreshingly unashamed of the teenager and 20-something she was, obsessed with fake tan, fake boobs, and reality TV. Why should she be? She was the precise marketing target. Young women of the noughties were and are often dismissed as frivolous and trashy. It was an odd time before we’d learned about intersectional feminism and slutwalks. We were being encouraged to learn to pole dance but only if it were for fitness purposes. It was during this time Ryan started working at famous restaurant chain Hooters, where she found a supportive matriarchy that appreciated her humour and gave Ryan her first hosting gig.

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Outside of television, Katherine has sold-out venues across the world with her unique stand-up shows. Her upcoming 2021/2022 live show, MISSUS, will tour later this year with Live Nation. Katherine launched her hugely successful podcast, Telling Everybody Everything, in 2020 and it went straight to the top of the iTunes UK podcast chart. Outrageously brilliant! Katherine's straight-talking, no-nonsense book is the honesty we all need. I'm buying this for all my friends * Laura Whitmore * It is clear that Ryan is all about taking chances, from auditioning as a dancer for a Sean Paul video to entering comedy competitions such as the Funny Women Awards which she won in 2008. The thread that runs through this book is Ryan’s incredible work ethic, whether it’s comedy, mothering or waitressing at Hooters she puts her all into it. From the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and dangerously astute handbook of life instruction. As much as I liked to think of myself as an adult from birth, I was a teenager when this happened and it left quite a traumatic imprint that I’ve had to work very hard to overcome for the benefit of my healthy relationships with men.There are men who think I’m a dominatrix’: Katherine Ryan wears coat by jilsander.com and shoes by aquazzura.com. Photograph: Dean Chalkley/The Observer Ryan’s audacity to refuse to fit in, to go her own way and to speak up has made for an autobiography that is funny, frank and fabulous. One thing to note was, despite being a memoir, Katherine still manages to keep the identities of her past boyfriends (including the really terrible ones) anonymous which—although a pretty classy (and legally savvy) move— did disappoint me a little. Though the choice to forgo naming and shaming is understandable especially given society’s toxic obsession with Cancel culture (which is something Katherine also manages to explore in a later chapter) But other than that, it’s really good. Detailing Katherine's journey from a naive ex-Hooters waitress fresh off the boat from Canada to comedy megastar, chapters will cover How to Potty Train Your Baby at 10 Months, How to Cut Off Your Racist Aunties, How to Marry Your High School Boyfriend and How to Co-Parent when you're a Single Mum.

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Are you a budding Director? Producer? Screenwriter? Are you collaborating with friends to make a funny video? Then we are looking for YOU! Films are judged for production, concept, delivery/performance, creativity, writing and overall funniness. The top 10 films are then viewed by an independent judging panel of top television and film industry professionals who will choose one overall winner and two runners up. The final three will be invited to attend the grand final in London on the 23rd September. I was afraid. I’d laugh at my own grandiosity and say, ‘Get over yourself, Katherine. No one wants to murder you.’ But deep down, I really believed that they might. I wish that I had been more honest and courageous in my exit strategies, but I know that I did the best I could at the time and I calculated risk based on the information I had.I've never been a big fan of KR. Always seemed to me like she is someone that shouts about being a feminist and progressive and yet made her career by hanging off Jimmy Carr's..... And never appears without her falsies on full display. Usually in a top/dress split down to her navel - while fan girling on the Kardashians and CardiB.