Name: A roll about and a curry.

Appearance: Picture someone eating a curry and then engaging in sexual intercourse.

Primary advocate: Danny Dyer.

This whole thing already sounds like it was created with a random word generator. I assure you, it is all grounded in truth.

So let me get this right, Danny Dyer is calling upon people to eat curries and have sex? Not people. Just one person.

Oh good. Who? His daughter.

Oh God. Why? I’ll contextualise. Danny Dyer’s daughter, Dani Dyer, is in her final trimester of pregnancy, and Danny Dyer is eager to help speed up the process.

By urging her to eat curry and have sex? That’s correct. He advocated this on their podcast Danny and Dani: Sorted With the Dyers. Spicy food and penetrative sex are viewed as two of the most traditional methods that women use to induce labour.

Really? Do they work? It’s inconclusive. Eating spicy food is said to stimulate your uterus into childbirth, but the parenting website BabyCentre points out that this is based on hearsay rather than evidence.

And the other thing? Also inconclusive, despite the persistent myth that sperm can help to “ripen” the neck of your cervix, preparing your body for labour.

This has put me right off my curry. I’m sorry. Danny Dyer is often right about many things, like when he accused Boris Johnson of “running around with his stupid haircut spouting bollocks”. However, in this instance he is probably isn’t right.

So what can induce labour? Not a whole lot, in truth. The NHS website lists a number of options for expectant mothers to try, including hot baths, castor oil, enemas, acupuncture and homeopathy, but it is very careful to point out that none of these are supported by scientific evidence.

So you cannot do it? You can. Around a fifth of all births are aided by induced labour. However, these utilise prostaglandin pessaries, which are administered by medical professionals at appointments that are made weeks in advance.

And Dani Dyer hasn’t made an appointment? As far as anyone can tell, no.

So she might as well just have a roll about and a curry? Sure, fine. Neither of those things will actively harm the baby, so theoretically Dani Dyer can have as many roll abouts and curries as she wants before her waters break.

Do say: “Dani Dyer’s baby isn’t shifting.”

Don’t say: “Has Danny tried swearing at it?”