This is the Guardian.

I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from the Guardian. A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.

Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most is often that snack

you cobble together when you curled upon the sofa.

Each week I asked my guest to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives

because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind clothes door.

Hi there, before we start we wanted to let you know that in this episode we discuss eating disorders. We have added details in the show notes for organizations who can offer support.

Hello my lovelies, you catch me in my bedroom. I'm getting dressed for my next guest.

She is the first lady of UK comedy.

I think that you'll see her face more often than King Charles.

I'm telling you probably more often than the PM and I cannot wait. I'm standing at my

wardrobe. I am still I'm not gonna lie I'm at the underwear stage and like most

women I have three categories of pants to choose from today.

Number one you have your common and garden briefs now they started a crisp white they are now gray well actually they're a little bit green they are baggy they've

had upwards of about 300 washes there's a bit of elastic coming out the side

here actually. Number two now I often go down this route

Support pants. I want to look my best. Now these are the pants that go to your knees and up to your belly button I will look a stone lighter but by about

question three my eyes are bulging. You only get the truth with me. Now three, this is what I'm going for today.

I class these as sexy.

Where are they?

Where are they? There they. There they are. Now these are the pants that you only get out of the draw when you're feeling lucky. I say wear the pants for the energy that you need to project and today I'm going to go with number three because who more fitting to Channel

sexy than the woman, the wonder, the comedy legend?

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