AIDAN. No, no it’s not – it’s on the arts desk. I thought you might want a crack at it.

CHARLOTTE. Well. Yeah. But –

AIDAN. If you don’t get it, there’s still a job for you here. But I think you will get it.

CHARLOTTE. Okay. Thanks. I think. Sorry, just it does feel a bit like I’m getting fired –

AIDAN. I think you’re very talented. I think you should succeed, on your own terms.

CHARLOTTE. But is my work not –

AIDAN. Your work is fine. Excellent even, within the parameters of – but do you actually want to be working here? In this environment?

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CHARLOTTE. Can I be honest?

AIDAN. Please.

CHARLOTTE. I just like working. Getting paid. I got a First, you know.

AIDAN. I do.

CHARLOTTE. When I first came down to London I couldn’t get arrested. I did three years of unpaid work placements and internships before I came here and that’s fucking shit. Slave labour. And then I spent three months getting screamed at by Trinny and Susannah because I didn’t know what a gilet was, and then I came here, which, yeah, it’s not like my dream or anything but it’s on my CV and I can pay my rent and yeah. I mean I actually – I haven’t actually told you this but I am actually part of a group, a women’s group and I sort of. Lie to them. About what I do. But the way things are, right now. All my mates are on benefits and I don’t. I don’t want that. So if it means I’m working, for money then –

Then I can deal with a few tits here and there.

RUPERT runs in.

RUPERT. Aidan.

AIDAN. I’ve told you, knock.

RUPERT. Carrie.

AIDAN. Who?

RUPERT gestures to the photo of the Local Lovely on the wall.

What about her?

RUPERT. I’ve got her father on the line.

AIDAN and CHARLOTTE look at each other, smile.

AIDAN. Uh-oh. Daddy’s had a wake-up call.

They laugh.

RUPERT. Yeah. He says she didn’t send the picture in.

AIDAN. No, of course – that’s not how it works. The boyfriend takes the picture, the boyfriend sends it in.

RUPERT. Yeah but she doesn’t know anything about it.

AIDAN. Right. But the consent forms would have been –

RUPERT. Yeah but her dad’s saying that she’s saying that she didn’t sign any form –

AIDAN. Who dealt with this? Sam!

SAM comes running in, in his jacket.

SAM. I was just going, I forgot / my wallet –

AIDAN. Forget the coffee.

SAM. No, it won’t take / a minute –

AIDAN. Do we have consent forms on file for the Local Lovely shots of Carrie?

SAM. Yeah. I think – yeah, do you want me to get them?

AIDAN. Who sent them in?

SAM. Her boyfriend. Think his name was Mark… something. I can get you the forms.