Duvet Days

Humanitarian and reality TV star Camilla Thurlow invites Abby to her new pad to chat about how Love Island pulled her out of a dark time in her life, how falling in love with Jamie Jewitt on the show changed her and why she lets their new french bulldog puppies snuggle in bed.

Camilla discusses growing up in Dumfries, as a shy and self-proclaimed 'uncool' kid, going off to boarding school at the age of 10 and receiving a letter from her Mum every day to help her cope with homesickness.

She opens up about her work as a bomb disposal expert in Cambodia and reveals that witnessing the devastating affects landmines have on civilians left her feeling guilty and emotionally shut off. Love Island was her last ditch attempt to shake off these feelings - and it worked!

Give yourself a duvet day and check out the final episode of Series 2, as Camilla kicks back and talks about the car crash she survived at 18 and why her and Jamie are not the perfect Instagram couple.

Presenter and Producer: Abby Hollick

Duvet Days is a Square Dog Media production

Yola invites Abby Hollick for a duvet day as she talks about growing up with nothing in Portishead and how her mum disproved of her singing.

The country soul star explains how Dolly Parton inspired her to be unapologetically herself and why she ended up sleeping on the streets when she was trying to make it in London.

Plus, she opens up about how stress caused her to lose her voice for a year and a half and how she was made to feel that she should be a backing singer instead of up front.

Presenter and Producer: Abby Hollick

Duvet Days is a Square Dog Media production.

Poet and writer Lemn Sissay takes a duvet day with Abby Hollick to discuss being taken from his Ethiopian mother, memories of his foster family and discovering why he was forced out of that home at the age of 12.

Presenter and Producer: Abby Hollick

Duvet Days is a Square Dog Media production.

Comedian Rosie Jones is pulling a duvet day to chat with Abby Hollick about how she’s always been a show off, her love of Gareth Gates and why being disabled is way better when you’re on TV.

She opens up about how having Cerebral Palsy has often meant she’s patronized, why she thought the comedy world wouldn’t welcome her and why she doesn’t mind representing other young people with disabilities.

She admits that she’s not actually the funniest person in her family and that her mum said she’d never want to watch her on stage, but ended up watching her with 10,000 other people at Wembley.

Presenter and Producer: Abby Hollick

Duvet Days is a Square Dog Media production

Munroe Bergdorf invites Abby Hollick for a Duvet Day on her sofa. She explains how she’s learnt to love her bedroom again after the trauma of sexual assault, but why it’s still off limits for visitors.

She describes growing up in the middle of nowhere and not fitting it, being bullied for being effeminate at school, and being written off by her teachers.

The model, DJ and activist opens up about how she finally learnt that being trans doesn’t mean you can’t be happy, deciding who she wants to be and how learning to talk about her feelings has helped in her recovery from an eating disorder.

Plus, she explains why she’s fed up with explaining how people can be better allies to the trans community.

If you have been affected by issues discussed in this episode such as eating disorders, emotional distress and sexual violence, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line: https://www.bbc.co.uk/actionline/

Presenter and Producer: Abby Hollick

Duvet Days is a Square Dog Media production

Joel Golby overcomes his phobia of sharing his bedding and reluctantly lets Abby Hollick onto his bed to talk about grief, gaming and his relationship with alcohol.

The Vice writer explains how it felt to see his essay on becoming an orphan go viral, and how it led to some strange conversations with friends who hadn’t known.

He chats about his mum’s use of lurid bright colour on the walls of his childhood home, growing up in the midlands and how his dad’s alcoholism affected him.

Plus he spills the beans on what it’s like to meet a sex robot, and some of his slightly weird worries (hint: dogs and his genitals are involved.)

Presenter and Producer: Abby Hollick

Duvet Days is a Square Dog Media production.

Ray BLK is lighting her candles and staying in her silk pink pjs to talk escaping bad relationships, growing up in South London and working with her hero Ms Dynamite.

She recalls childhood memories of blasting Whitney Houston with her mum, plastering her walls with Justin Timberlake, and watching MTV all day.

The first unsigned artist to win BBC Sound of, she explains how she struggled with her newfound fame and why being compared to Adele can be a lot of pressure.

Ray shares her excitement at going back to Nigeria for the first time since the age of four and how her brother’s autism teaches her not to judge others.

Plus she gives Abby the goss on her new album, and why it’s worth the wait.

Presenter and Producer: Abby Hollick

Duvet Days is a Square Dog Media production.

Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan invites Abby Hollick into her County Galway childhood bedroom for a frank and funny chat about playing Claire, 'the wee lesbian’, growing up in Ireland and why her career has been a slow burn.

Presenter and Producer: Abby Hollick

Duvet Days is a Square Dog Media production.

Poet and children’s author Laura Dockrill has a duvet day and a cuppa with Abby Hollick to chat about her punk childhood, surviving postpartum psychosis with help from her best mate Adele, and why she’s finally beaten her fear of the dark.

Laura also talks in detail about her experience of postpartum psychosis and why she felt as though she’d pushed her personality out along with her baby. Laura is determined to speak openly about mental illness and her recovery as she hopes that it will help others and will prove that mental illness can affect anyone and does not discriminate.

Presenter and Producer: Abby Hollick

Yrsa Daley-Ward is hiding under the covers with Abby Hollick to open up about growing up with her Jamaican, Seventh Day Adventist grandparents, why she’ll never forget peeling off their '80s bubbly wallpaper and feeling out of place at school in Lancashire.

Yrsa shares her experiences as a model in South Africa compared to the draining castings in London where usually only one black model would book a job compared to many white models.

Presenter and Producer: Abby Hollick

Duvet Days is a Square Dog Media production