They may be the best of pals, perform together and share a podcast - but when push comes to shove, Vogue Williams and Joanne McNally are like chalk and cheese.
Vogue was a guest on Friday night's edition of The Late Late Show and regaled Ryan Tubridy with tales involving herself and Joanne.
Ryan had asked about their podcast, My Therapist Ghosted Me, describing it as "phenomenal" while noting that - although it’s based in the UK - the show is distinctly Irish in tone.
"We’re very Irish. We sound very Irish," Vogue told Ryan. "I think when you’re Irish, it’s so ingrained, you can’t help it."
And when Ryan asked hr about her impressions of Joanne McNally, Vogue smiled broadly, saying:
"She’s gas. Joanne’s amazing. She’s absolutely brilliant.
"She’s so scatty she makes no apologies for it. She’s a disaster - but the most amazing disaster you’ll ever meet. And one of the greatest friends."
Ryan then pointed out that they’d known each other a long time before they became friends and then a commercial partnership.
"You were in a friends’ circle, but you weren’t 'close’ close," he said to her. "Is that right? And then it became close."
"We met when we were like about 18, and that was my group of town friends," Vogue recalled. "But in the group of town friends she was always over the other side of the group and we were never really close, but we were always friendly enough.
"And then she was doing gigs in London and she was staying in some random places. She was doing gigs for free and she didn’t have anywhere to stay, and I had a spare place at the time.
"So I invited her to stay. And she still has a key."
But although they’re great pals, they’re not that similar. As Vogue put it: "I don’t know if we’d be great roommates because I am so obsessed. I vacuum-pack my clothes. I love sorting out things. I love to organise all the time."
Joanne is obviously a lot different, as Vogue explained.
"We were filming with each other in Ibiza during the summer, and I went into her room and I swear to God - she had the suitcase open on the bed, on one side of the bed," Vogue told Ryan.
"And I said, ‘Do you put that like on the ground at night?’ And she said ‘No.’ It stays there for the week."
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