Comedian recalls celebrating the Lionesses' Euros victory

Maisie Adam has relived the moment she took her top off to celebrate Lionesses winning their second Euros last summer.

The comic was in Basel to witness the team defeat Spain on penalties – and got carried away in the moment, as she recalled to Lioness Beth Mead on her podcast.

The midfielder said it was ‘a core memory’ of hers from the tournament before getting Adam to tell the story.

The comic said: ‘Anybody who watched you guys last summer, it was amazing. It was fantastic… 

‘There were several points throughout that tournament where we all thought it was over, and you kept going. It was amazing. Then once you'd won and we were all going mad in the stadium, you did the thing where you walk a lap of honour to say thank you to everybody.

‘You walked around to behind the goal where the shootout had been, which was where we were, and… it’s quite embarrassing, actually, now I'm saying it, because I was still pumped full of endorphins and adrenaline and the actual people who had just won, you’d calmed down, hadn’t you?  

‘I was waving then a few of you were like, "Oh, hello!’" Then I took my top off, just being like, "We’ve won!" Whipping it around my head – and then you were all pointing.’

Mead added: ’There were that many people behind that goal and we all clocked you: top around your head.’

‘Me with me little B-cups out just going mad for it,’ Adam continued. ‘And then I quickly realised in my head, I was like, "Oh, this this will come back to haunt me" and here I am on The Beth Mead Show having it haunt me..

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Later that night night, she went out celebrating with fellow comedian Suzi Ruffell and they thought it would be a good idea to try to leapfrog a bin…

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On the podcast, Adam also recalled how Mead’s fellow Lioness Scott told the world she had a drinking problem to convert up her epilepsy.

‘I think it's such an insight into Jill's way of thinking that she massively threw me under the bus with something, but she thought she'd done me a favour,’ the comedian said.

It all stemmed from   Adam having a seizurein Vietnam  in front of Romesh Ranganathan and football stars Michael Richards, Patrice Evra while filming a  League of Their Own road trip.

‘I had to go to hospital for a bit, but I was I was absolutely fine,’ she said.

But when her friend Scott was asked about the emergency, the footballer didn’t want to reveal sensitive medical information, so just said that Adam ‘got so drunk, she passed out’.

‘Jill genuinely was like, "Don't worry, I told them you've just got a drinking problem, and that you drank to an excessive point that you were convulsing on the floor",’ Adam recalled

‘I said, "Why would that be better?" She was like, "Well, I just didn't think it was fair of me to tell them that you were epileptic, cos that's your business." I was like, "So, you told them I was an alcoholic instead?".’ 

Adam also spoke of her Rada stage school audition, where she was dismissed in just six minutes, despite her dad taking a day off work to drive her from Yorkshire to London, committing two pieces to memory and paying an audition fee. 

She said: ’It was so demoralising, and I was so angry, as  I'd  worked so hard  practicing it after school with my teacher… then my dad didn't have to take a day off work to drive me five hours down to London and I’d literally been in this room six minutes…

'I just remember it so clearly, he didn't even look up, he just went "Thank you see you later.’" I was so  embarrassed and ashamed, and also kind of just angry that this person wouldn't even just even give you respect.

‘If you've had a knock of confidence that's been so dismissive… it’s so demoralising.’

• The Beth Mead Show is available now.

Published: 27 May 2026