Now my dream is to write a novel.

Ms Sturgeon said it was a rarity to hear “authentic working-class female voices” in many walks of life and said she was reminiscent of women joining “menages”, which are self-managed savings schemes and pots soup, appearing in Godley’s novel.

Recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Godley went viral on social media for her comedic voiceovers of Ms Sturgeon’s Covid briefings.

The pair discussed how the voiceovers came to be where Godley revealed that he had always done them.

She reconsidered making them during the Covid pandemic because of the impact the virus had on people, but it was her daughter Ashley Storrie who encouraged her to keep making them.

She said: “We were doing this for the sake of it, when I did the first one I said: I can’t, people have died. This is not the right thing to do.”

“But when they got off the ground, people told me they were so much fun.”

Mrs Sturgeon said: “There were two things you used to say in them and it was this: ‘My feet were killing me’.

“My feet were usually killing me, and I was starving and usually starving.”

Among the most popular were those of Mrs. Sturgeon, which often ended with a now infamous line: “Frank! Open the door!”

Godley revealed that Frank was based on a man who read “cowboy books” in the pub where he used to work.