He's a mix of his mum and his nan... he's Sally Vate!

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Jon Hughes – aka Sally Vate – will be making sure you are all in the mood and comfortable as your hostess at the next Shoreham Comedy Club night coming up at the Ropetackle (Thurday, July 17 at 8pm).

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00:00Good morning. My name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Lovely this

00:06morning to speak to John Hughes, who by night is Sally Vate. Now, taking the stage as the

00:12drag host for the next Shoreham Comedy Club, which is on July the 17th. Now, tell me a

00:18bit about Sally Vate. You're saying, as Sally Vate, you are there to warm up the crowd,

00:23to breathe the rude, everyone in the mood. She's a nice, nice lady, is she?

00:27I try to be. I try to be. I'm a bit mumsy, so I do like to make sure everyone's settled

00:32in the seats and everyone's comfy and having a lovely time. So even throughout, just starting

00:38the evening and welcoming people so they know, right, we're in a nice, safe space. We're

00:43going to have a lovely time. We're going to be entertained. I'd like to come on looking

00:48glamorous. Doesn't always come across that way. And then just to keep everybody on time

00:54and keep the ball rolling, make sure we're getting enough breaks so people can have a

00:58drink and a little stretch of their legs. And it's quite nice because I also like to

01:02go out and intermingle with everybody during the breaks and the intervals.

01:08And you said a really interesting thing just now, that some drag acts can be a bit vicious,

01:14a bit cutting, a bit butting. But you absolutely are not. And you think that's probably your

01:20retail background coming out. Yeah. The customer service ethos there then.

01:25Absolutely. Many years of customer service just coming through. Yeah, I just like to know that

01:31people are having a good time. I mean, there's so much going on in people's lives and within the

01:35world. There's so much madness and mayhem. It's nice just to come and just forget your worries

01:40for a moment or two and just enjoy yourself and just have that release from everyday normal

01:47pressures. Don't make it ends me to make sure you've got food on the table and your bills

01:51are all paid. We're all struggling. So it's nice to be able to have a moment and go, right,

01:56do you know what? There's a little bit of spending when I'm going to go out and have a lovely comedy

02:00night and enjoy myself. I forget all about my stress and world.

02:04Quite. Now, obviously, the customer service ethos is in Salivate, but also in Salivate,

02:09we have a bit of your mum and a bit of your dad.

02:11Absolutely. There are moments I catch myself saying something and think, oh, no, that was

02:17my mother. My mother's creeping out.

02:19Well, that's a tribute, isn't it?

02:22It is. I don't know whether she sees it that way.

02:27If they're ever in the audience, I always try not to sort of tend to try and play that

02:31bit down. But I do end up being a bit like me now. I think that's the organisational side

02:37of everything, making sure everything's in situ, ready to make everything run smoothly.

02:42Well, I mean, mum, she's a bit more sort of like the type of person that if you broke

02:46you around, she went, what do you want me to do about it? She was very, very, very stern.

02:50It's a lovely thing. But it's like, if you break your leg, do I come running to me?

02:53Well, I can't, can't if I've broken my leg. Which actually did happen.

02:59Well, it sounds brilliant. So we get the chance to see John's alter ego, or maybe even your

03:04better half, salivate on stage at Shoreham Rope Tackle, Thursday, July the 17th, 8pm.

03:12Lovely to speak to you. Hope the evening goes well. I'm sure it will. Thank you.

03:16Thank you very much.

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