Catilin Moran, Birmingham Town Hall - review

Journalist Caitlin Moran and MP Jess Phillips had Birmingham Town Hall in stitches during Caitlin’s highly-anticipated book launch last night.

Titled How To Be Famous, the fictional novel was described by the Birmingham Yardley MP, who was interviewing Caitlin on the night, as a ‘marvellous’ book detailing the ups and downs of the life of a teenage girl - told in an extremely blunt and straightforward fashion.

And last night, Caitlin had the audience roaring from the get-go.

From Adam’s facial expressions on Love Island, to turning down Celebrity Big Brother despite being offered £300,000, to how women perceive sex - Caitlin opened up about just everything. No topics were out of bounds.

She knew her audience well, and joked about the infamous Brummie and Black Country accents, and even commented on her favourite place in Wolverhampton.

“My friend says people from the Midlands are what scousers think they are," she remarked.

"We have a particularly musical accent, I love how everything ends with a question mark.

“I went to Wolvo a couple of months ago - we always go and see if the person is in our old house to see if we can go in the garden.

“But they weren’t so we just took selfies outside. I go back quite freely; I stand outside like Cathy from Wuthering Heights.”

She added: “And we went down to this pub, that used to be the Bikers pub, and it was so rough. But now it’s selling oysters and champagne.

“I always used to love Bantock Park as they had a castle made of sweet wrappers. I aspired to eat enough Roses to make that castle.

“You can skate outside the Civic Centre too - that’s a good skating spot.”

The Times journalist shattered a room full of dreams, however, when she announced that there would be no more episodes of her hit sitcom Raised in Wolves - based in Wolverhampton.

However she did say she had big plans to turn it into a musical.

And her one piece of advice she would give to women and girls across the world?

“The idea of being a girl is still such a complicated thing. You should think of yourself as a little museum which you are going to collect fantastic things and take fantastic care of.

“They key is who is running museum? What is the voice in your head?

“Be honest with yourself? Start talking to yourself courteously and respectfully.”