While Grace Campbell’s Google knowledge panel may describe her as ‘Alastair Campbell’s daughter’ (sort it out, guys), the 29-year-old is very much her own star.
Just in the last few months, Grace has noticed a sharp spike in people recognising her out and about. She even recently re-downloaded dating app Hinge, and men – that’s right, men – are complimenting her actual work, calling themselves fans.
‘I never really thought men liked me,’ she laughed, in an exclusive chat with Metro.co.uk. ‘So that was really validating.’
It could be Grace’s trademark tight curly locks that cause moments of take-two recognition (it is great hair). Or it could be her recent appearance on Gogglebox. Or both.
But more likely perhaps, is that pretty much every middle-class 20-something woman in London follows her on Instagram for her unashamed, whip-lash comedy and candid, relatable sex chat.
Dragging on a disposable vape – with a touch of Lana Del Ray chaos about her – Grace explained: ‘I always meet women everywhere I go. It’s fun, because everyone who likes me is always someone who I would hang out with.
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‘They’re not jarring in any way. They are just fun girls who are down for a good time and want to have a drink.’
But Grace isn’t just ‘actually quite frivolous’ (as she described herself), but perhaps from growing up in the family she did, the comic talks about politics with fierce gusto.
Her on-stage bullish energy never shone through more than when talking about our current dour climate, and one blonde, bouncy-haired individual in particular.
‘Right now I just think people on the left need to stop arguing so much and just get Keir Starmer into power, because we have had over ten years of the Tories now, and the country is f****d,’ she said.
‘Nothing is working. Nothing is functioning. So we just need to get behind Labour at the moment.’
And does she – like her father – have a few choice words to describe former Prime Minister Boris Johnson?
‘I mean I just have one. C**t. I hate him.’ Well, that was pretty clear.
But politics was never on the cards for Grace, who reckons it’s the only path to go down if you want to really change the world.
‘You get trolled so much on the internet if you’re a female politician that I just don’t think I could actually cope with it,’ she explained.
‘I care about s**t that’s going on. But, no. Not the lifestyle for me.’
What Grace really wants to do is make people laugh, and she doesn’t need her Blairite spin doctor dad to do that, as her comedy is booming.
Grace’s hour-long set, A Show About Me(n), took London by storm earlier this year in a city-wide tour, filling iconic venues like The Clapham Grand and Alexandra Palace Theatre.
Having conquered London, the star is taking the crux – plus a little more – of the show, aptly named A Show About More Me(n), to the Edinburgh Fringe in August having sold out last year’s run.
‘It’s like an addiction,’ she said of comedy, which she admits is a little like her diary. ‘I never want my time to be up.’
As the title suggests, Grace’s show is about herself and men. Her trick is to anticipate what people see as her flaws and blurt them out before anyone else can.
‘I think I’m quite aware of what I’m like, and I can be so annoying,’ she admitted with a chuckle.
‘I’m really annoying, I’m really needy. I need constant reassurance. I’m so loud. But that’s good because then I know how to begin.’
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But the hardest part of stand-up isn’t the heckling or haters. Grace has been getting flak all her life because of who her dad is, so she’s used to all that.
‘I’ve got a really think skin with that,’ she said, before adding: ‘With stand up it’s like minor [abuse]. It’s like, oh, you don’t find me funny? I don’t find you funny. It’s fine.’
‘So in a way my childhood made me quite primed for it. Also because my dad has always been like, “You should just never care”.’
And is it weird for Grace that her dad is topping the podcast charts with The Rest Is Politics, making him kinda, er, cool?
Grace answers that one with a flash of trademark wit – proving she’s more than worthy of a more representative Google results page.
‘It’s not weird. It’s more like, “It’s meant to be my time!”‘ she joked, and added, with a heavy lick of tongue-in-cheek mischief: ‘Go away, you’re a has-been. Stay in your lane.’
But no experience is ever that bad when you can turn it into material – a knack Grace has just about got the hang of.
‘Whenever I get dumped I always think, “Okay, well I’m just going to go and use this to my advantage now. So, thank you,”‘ she explained.
‘I think they worry about it.’
With her upward trajectory to a starry future incoming, so they should…
Catch Grace’s show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from 12 to 17 August at the Gilded Balloon at 17.30. Tickets available here.
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