Arielle Free’s grandfather will see her DJ for the primary time at Calvin Harris’s big Hampden gig subsequent weekend.
However the Radio 1 star reckons 84-year-old Grandpa John is barely going as a result of he’s an enormous Scotland soccer fan.
The 34-year-old Stirling-born, Glasgow-raised presenter is supporting Calvin at his long-awaited return present on the nationwide stadium subsequent Saturday.
She mentioned: “My Grandpa John has by no means seen me DJ earlier than. It’s going to be such a second.
“However to be trustworthy I feel the one cause he’s coming is he’s an enormous soccer fan and when he discovered it was on the Scotland worldwide stadium, as he known as it, he mentioned he wished to go. I feel he’s going to see the soccer pitch, though there will likely be flooring over it. I can’t await him to be there.
“Hopefully he’ll have a pleasant house round him as a result of I can’t think about he’ll need to be down the entrance moshing too onerous. However he’s match as a fiddle and one of many fittest folks I do know so he most likely will likely be.”
John is an enormous soccer fan however Arielle not a lot. She admitted a Celtic-related incident on her Radio 1 present earlier this month went over her head.
A Scot known as Tam was on her present to play the Beat or Repeat recreation by which the listener tries to dethrone the present on-repeat music with a selection of their very own.
Glaswegian Tam picked Gerry Cinnamon’s music Belter however Ariella caught with Layo and Bushwacka’s Love Story. Earlier than he was lower off, Tam shouted: “An enormous shout-out to large Ange Postecoglou – we by no means cease!”
Arielle mentioned: “I didn’t actually have a clue about what was happening. It sort of went over my head.
“Subsequent factor I do know I’m getting all these alerts saying I’d given the Celtic supervisor a shout-out.
“Extra folks had been indignant I hadn’t performed Belter. Generally as a result of folks know I’m Scottish they go for a Scottish act.”
She laughed: “I’m typically biased however not at all times.”
London-based Arielle nonetheless can’t imagine she’ll be again in Glasgow subsequent weekend enjoying to 48,000 – her largest present but after the ten,000 at Edinburgh Hogmanay final 12 months – particularly as she ditched her school commencement to see Calvin and is now enjoying on the identical stage.
She mentioned: “I nonetheless haven’t obtained over it. They're letting me play for an hour fairly than half an hour as a result of they comprehend it’s my
dwelling city.
“I’m doing a residency at Hello Ibiza every Friday and final week popped in to see Calvin at his Ushuaia residency which is reverse. He’s simply obtained bangers for days.
“Folks in Hampden are going to lose their minds it’s the most effective DJ gigs I’ve ever seen.”
The following couple of weekends are going to be big for Arielle, who was a Beauxbatons pupil in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Hearth and offered youngsters’ present Scrambled! from 2015 to 2018.
She presents the weekday early breakfast present on Radio 1 and co-presents the Love Island podcast The Morning After.
Tomorrow she will get her largest TV gig up to now – fronting the second sequence of ITV2’s Apocalypse Wow.
She may even be “going dwelling” to Glastonbury, DJing on the pageant for the primary time tonight for Radio 1 Dance and tomorrow on The Greenpeace Stage and internet hosting the pageant’s West Holts Stage till Sunday which options Little Simz and Roisin Murphy.
She mentioned: “Glastonbury is large for me. It’s the place I used to be conceived. it means quite a bit to me. This 12 months goes to be particular. I’m enjoying for the primary time and I’m very fortunate to be internet hosting the third largest stage.”
The Scot has a dream – to entrance the Radio 1 protection. She hopes enjoying and internet hosting a stage, in addition to being a part of the protection workforce for the station, will make the powers that be take discover.
Whereas she is a favorite on ITV2 – which has lengthy been a hothouse for British TV expertise, with the likes of Emma Willis, Rylan Clark, Laura Whitmore and Joel Dommett all gaining expertise on exhibits there – she isn’t trying to be the brand new Massive Brother presenter, for instance.
Arielle, who launched her first single Soul Full firstly of the 12 months, mentioned: “Music is at all times my focus. It’s the place my coronary heart lies.
“My dream is to host Glastonbury on TV, or the Brit Awards.”
Apocalypse Wow is the proper apply for each. Probably essentially the most out-there present on British TV, it sees a bunch of celebrities struggle it out within the Torture Dome in a sequence which is an element It’s a Knockout, half Movie star Juice.
Slopping about in gallons of goo, well-known faces like former world champion boxer Amir Khan, musician Tinchy Stryder and Ibiza Weekender’s David Potts compete to win cash for charity.
Arielle had been because of be a contestant final 12 months however Covid meant she couldn’t and has now taken over internet hosting from AJ Odudu.
She mentioned: “Written down it sounds barely extra stunning than it truly is. It’s quite a lot of enjoyable.”
The Scot recorded the six episodes over every week from 8am to 8pm whereas additionally doing her Radio 1 present. She mentioned: “There was a glam squad who’d helped me not look so useless within the morning as a result of I’d come off the breakfast present.”
Whereas the celebs get battered and bruised, Arielle admitted she had a little bit of a exercise as nicely - making an attempt to remain upright.
She laughed: “I’m fairly quick so I often put on heels on set. However the floor within the dome is principally a gentle mattress to cushion any falls so was actually, actually slippery and I struggled to maintain my steadiness.
“It was a pleasant wee exercise and good for my core. My calves had been killing me after the primary day.”
●Apocalypse Wow begins tomorrow, ITV2, at 10pm.