Best Sophie Ellis Bextor Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 160: Genevieve Turley 1:04:24

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Genevieve Turley is a make up artist who posts funny content online, making light of makeup tutorials and not taking her self seriously at all. We talked about how wearing makeup makes us both happy. She told me about her career in the RAF, her IVF journey and her life now, doing bridal makeup and creating comedy content online. Genevieve has two c…

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Denise Lewis. The Dame is a winner but will she win gold in her biological age test? 57:23

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Dame Denise Lewis is 52 but feels much younger and says if her biological age is any higher than 38 - she’ll sprint out of the studio in a strop. She’s an Olympic Gold winner, a mum of 4 and now heads up UK Athletics which promotes young talent looking to represent the country. She’s a high achieving woman, at home and and at work but says, over th…

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Alastair Campbell – the results are in. Will he accept his 'real' age or call for a recount?? 51:15

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Alastair Campbell co-hosts the UK’s most successful podcast, The Rest is Politics and a huge percentage of the audience is under thirty. He tells Katherine why he thinks he still appeals to the young. He’s 68 but he’s hoping his biological age will be 21. If it’s not, he’s calling for a recount or an overhaul of the system! His kids keep him feelin…

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Episode 159: Ro Fielden-Cook 1:08:59

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Ro Fielden-Cook is a woman with a heck of a life story. She has 3 sons: twins Alfie and Charlie (aged 15) and Freddie (aged 7). She is the founder of a wellbeing and fitness community ‘The SHE Collective’ which has a holistic approach to giving busy women more life, more confidence and more energy. She had her twins as a single mother as she left U…

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Jedward: Their DNA is the same - but do the world's most famous twins share a biological age? 52:40

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John and Edward Grimes burst on to the scene in 2009 as a phenomenon on X-Factor, and have been a mainstay on the showbiz scene ever since. TV, movies, Eurovision: no one can escape this Irish duo's j-epic brand of entertainment. But what impact has more than 15 years of fame had on the boys as they became men? Their care-free, feel-good attitude i…

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Episode 158: Ranvir Singh 1:05:53

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Ranvir Singh is a TV news presenter on Good Morning Britain, who I met on the set of ‘Lorraine’ about a year ago - and I’ve been wanting to talk to her in more depth ever since. Ranvir is a single parent to her 13 year old son Tushaan. She grew up in a very religious Sikh household, having lost her Dad when she was only 9. She was the first girl in…

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Katie Price – Katie is 47 but how old is her body? Will surgery and a life of trauma have affected her biological age? 1:15:19

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Katie Price says she’s in a better place than she’s ever been and at the age of 47 is finally fully in control of how she lives her life. She’s been in the public eye since she was 18 years old and with sexual assault, 3 kidnap attempts and a hijack at gun point in South Africa she’s had way more than her fair share of trauma. In this hugely open a…

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Episode 157: Laura Hamilton 1:01:50

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Laura Hamilton is a TV presenter best known for presenting A Place in the Sun. She’s been renovating properties since the age of 19 and has just taken on her first overseas project in Majorca, which she’s filming, to create a guide to buying and renovating abroad. Laura has two children, 11 year old Rocco and 10 year old Tahlia, who she co parents …

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Dame Sheila Hancock – In her nineties but refusing to be defined by her age. 1:05:44

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Sheila Hancock tells Katherine that since turning ninety she’s been treated differently and says you have to battle against the limitations that society puts on you as you age. Born in 1933, Sheila has been on our stage and screen for 70 years but in latter years has been best known for her writing. She says the global political atmosphere now is r…

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Episode 156: Cathy Dennis 1:18:05

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Cathy Dennis is a singer and a songwriter. I have been a huge fan of hers for years both through her solo music career and I’ve been lucky enough to write with her and get to know over the years. She is a true talent and a champion for music and creativity. She had a successful solo career in the early 90s, and then changed to songwriting in the 20…

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Sophie Ellis Bextor - ‘Murder’ reborn and the unexpected power of a woman in her mid-life 56:03

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Sophie is in her mid forties and says she’s finally shed her inner critic and found a new power. She tells Katherine she’s more confident on stage now than she ever was in her twenties and says the resurgence of her hit single Murder on the Dance Floor has been wonderful and rejuvenating. Her mother, Janet Ellis (famous for presenting Blue Peter in…

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Episode 155: Jill Halfpenny 1:17:14

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Jill Halfpenny has been an actor since the age of 10, first coming to our screens in Byker Grove in 1989, and most recently appearing in the Channel 5 drama The Feud. She has also appeared in Coronation Street, Eastenders, numerous TV dramas, on the West End stage and in Strictly Come Dancing. We shared our thoughts on dealing with downtime as perf…

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Bryony Gordon – will a former life of drink and drugs have impacted on her biological age? 1:05:05

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For anyone struggling with addiction, this is an inspiring and life affirming listen. Katherine talks to the open and funny Bryony Gordon about how a former life of alcohol abuse, cocaine addiction and binge eating may have impacted on her biological age. She shares the seediest sides of that life and how she’s overcome her demons with running, a l…

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Episode 154: Rachel Kelly 1:18:57

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Rachel Kelly is a writer of many books about mental health and wellbeing and has recently published ‘The Gift of Teenagers: Connect More, Worry Less’. She is a mum of five grown up children. Rachel and I talked about the teenage brain and how it’s wired for novelty, connection with peers, and altruism. We discussed how we could be more sympathetic …

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Olivia Attwood - Sex, surgery, salmon sperm, strength training and stress. Olivia lives life in full throttle but is her body holding up? 1:04:17

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At the age of 33, Olivia Attwood is the happiest she’s ever been but is she the heathiest? Olivia first came into the public eye in full sun on Love Island and admits her attitude to sun health and work pressure could have been better. Since then, whether it’s making documentaries or hosting a pod - she’s not been off our screens. Will a profession…

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Episode 153: Salima Saxton 1:19:53

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Salima Saxton is a writer, an actor and a coach, and she co-presents the podcast ‘Women are Mad’. She has 3 children aged 9, 12 and 15 and she recently caught my attention with her amazing Moth story about a Valentine’s Day announcement by her husband which changed her life. It’s 5 minutes of supreme story telling; you must listen! Salima and I tal…

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Jill Scott – Does the body really keep the score? 55:18

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Jill’s first childhood memory is kicking a football, and she’s played sport all her life. She’s 38 but how will elite sport have impacted on her body and her biological age? Will 16 years playing for England have taken its toll or kept her young and strong? Will she have to swop out the coffee for ginger tea? She talks to Katherine about her childh…

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Episode 152: Karni Arieli 1:11:11

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Karni Arieli is a photographer. Her lockdown project Eye Mama @eyemamaproject asked photographer mums all over the world to share honest pictures of their own experiences of motherhood. She has just had it published as a book. She also makes short films, commercials and music videos and has recently had a BAFTA nomination for a film about the life …

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Katherine Ryan – What's the host’s biological age? 38:16

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In this special episode of What’s My Age Again? Katherine reveals her own biological age. She's asked all her guests to take the test so thought it was only fair that she did it too. Katherine is clean living but she lives with Lupus, an auto-immune disease. Will that impact on her result? As always, Katherine’s joined by Dr Nichola Conlon, who tel…

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Romesh Ranganathan - Deep Fried Boiled Egg Anyone? Will His Recent Glow Up Reverse Former Misadventures? 53:35

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Romesh Ranganathan is 47 but he thinks he’s heading for an early death. His worries were triggered by a health test 8 years, the premature death of his father as well as the negative health outcomes for South and Southeast Asian men. But in recent years he’s transformed his health. Will he have done enough to improve his biological age? He tells Ka…

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Episode 151: Paula Radcliffe 1:04:49

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Olympic athlete and TV commentator Paula Radcliffe lives in Monaco with her husband Gary, and her two children Isla and Raphael. Paula is a 3 time winner of the London Marathon and held the Women's World Marathon Record for 16 years (2003-2019). I spoke to her just after she competed in the Tokyo Marathon aged 51, her first marathon since retiring …

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Joanne McNally – Can You Party, Stay Single & Still Be Biologically Younger? 51:23

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What's My Age Again? with Katherine Ryan 2:37

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Here’s Katherine telling you all about the podcast with a few of her famous guests!

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Episode 150: Daria Khrystenko 1:05:27

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Daria Khrystenko fled her home in Kyiv on the day that Russia invaded Ukraine 3 years ago. She, her then 10 year old son, her mum and her 3 cats travelled to Poland where Daria now works with CARE Poland, as a translator and advocate, helping other refugee women rebuild their lives. Daria told me about the day the war broke out, and how she packed …

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Episode 149: Susie Crow 1:11:05

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Susie Crow runs a small business called Let Us Pretend, in which she ‘makes sparkly things’. I have bought wonderful brightly coloured, fringed capes from her which say ‘Happy New Year!’ and ‘Happy Christmas!’ She also makes personalised banners. Originally from Newcastle, Susie now lives in Sussex and has three children and a creative job that she…

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Episode 148: Tuppence Middleton 1:08:46

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Actress Tuppence Middleton is perhaps best known for playing Lucy Branson in Downton Abbey. She has a little girl with her Swedish husband and divides her time between England and Sweden. I spoke to Tuppence the week before her memoir Scorpions was published. It’s a highly personal book about living with OCD and it really helped me understand the d…

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Episode 147: Arlene Phillips 1:02:10

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Arlene Phillips is a choregrapher who has been at the top of her game for most of her 81 years. She has worked on the choreography for numerous adverts, musicals, film and videos. She has two daughters: Alana who she had early in her career when she was just about to go to Hollywood to make a film with the Village People called 'Can't stop the Musi…

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Episode 146: Princess Superstar 1:08:23

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Princess Superstar is an American rapper and DJ. She and I are ‘Saltburn sisters’ as we both had our songs featured in the film, which gave them their exciting resurgence of popularity last year. Princess Superstar has a 13 year old daughter, who she homeschooled till the age of 11, believing that mainstream school doesn't nurture a child's unique …

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Episode 145: Abbie Ward 1:04:52

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Abbie Ward is a professional rugby union player who plays at international level for England and at club level for Bristol Bears. Abbie grew up in Cumbria in a very active family and tried out many sports before discovering rugby which she describes as a love affair she didn't see coming! She is married to former Harlequins hooker Dave Ward, who is…

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Episode 144: Sarah Megginson 1:11:40

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Sarah Megginson (@sarahmegginsonmoney) is an editor and personal finance expert from Australia, who has co-written a book called The Power of Two. She has three children (Lila 14, Noa 11 and Jesse 9) and she was a surrogate mother for her friend Lisa’s baby in 2023. Baby Hugo is now 18 months old and Sarah explained to me how he feels like a nephew…

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Episode 143: Katherine Jenkins 1:07:28

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Katherine Jenkins is a Welsh mezzo-soprano classical singer from Neath. She won Welsh Choirgirl of the Year aged 10, and became more widely known when she sang at Westminster Cathedral in 2003 to mark the Pope’s silver jubilee. Since then she has released numerous classical and classical crossover albums. When we met last week Katherine was heading…

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Episode 142: Cat Sims 1:10:49

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Cat Sims @notsosmugnow is a content creator, author and influencer, and mum to two daughters aged 8 and 11. On Instagram she takes an honest look (often with a big dose of humour) at motherhood, the mental load, relationships and more recently, sobriety, as Cat has just celebrated 3 years of being sober. We talked about how doing reels and tiktok i…

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Episode 141: Pixie Lott 1:03:23

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Singer Pixie Lott has had a ’crazy, happy time’ this past year: having a baby, bringing out a new album ‘Encino’, and moving into a family home near her mum, dad and siblings. We talked about how we both started in the music industry when we were teenagers and realised we share the same work ethic of ‘just keep turning up’. We also discussed the jo…

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Episode 140: Anna Williamson 1:27:47

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Anna Williamson is a presenter, podcaster, author, psychotherapist, relationship counsellor and life coach. She told me how she suffered with poor mental health in her 20s and after the birth of her first child. These experiences really shaped her and helped form one of the best marriages in her professional life: being a psychotherapist on Celebs …

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Episode 139: Lliana Bird 1:01:48

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Lliana Bird is a writer, broadcaster and co-founder of the charity Choose Love. She describes herself as a butterfly flitting from flower to flower. She was also the longest employed female DJ - for 16 years - at Xfm and then Radio X as it is now called. Lliana and her partner Noel Fielding have two girls, Dali and Iggy, aged 2 and 4, and Lliana to…

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Episode 138: Sara Pascoe 1:11:53

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Sara Pascoe is a stand up comedian who I particularly love. She now has two little boys after a long period of trying for a baby, including IVF. She spoke honestly to me about how she can remember being in a liminal head space for a long time while trying for a baby, and acknowledges she was 'horribly spiky' about parenthood before she had her boys…

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Episode 137: Holly McNish 1:20:44

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Hollie McNish is a poet who tours the country performing her poems. She says the whole of the UK is full of amazing theatres and bookshops. I love Hollie's writing, the way she looks at motherhood, and how she always stand up for her small person, which I feel is empowering for them both. I was delighted when she offered to read one of my favourite…

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Episode 136: Steph Douglas 1:09:48

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Steph Douglas is a mum of three who founded the gift company Don't Buy Her Flowers ten years ago. I’m a repeat customer of the website when I want to send a friend some TLC if they don’t live round the corner. Steph explained how the idea for her company came about when she received 8 well-meant bouquets following the birth of her first child - and…

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Episode 135: Ashley James 1:22:26

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Ashley James is a presenter and DJ who first made her name appearing briefly in Made in Chelsea. On instagram @ashleylouisejames has a huge following amongst 25-35 year old women and she frequently posts about being a mum of two little ones, and about other women's issues. Originally from the North East, you would never know that from Ashley's acce…

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Episode 134: Sister Bliss 1:12:44

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Ayalah Bentovim - known as Sister Bliss - is the woman behind Faithless, which she created in 1995 with Rollo Armstrong, Jamie Catto, and the legendary Buddhist rapper Maxi Jazz. Maxi died in 2022 and Ayalah talked to me about how she’s managing to keep him as part of the show, as they prepare to go on tour for the first time in 8 years. We also ta…

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Episode 133: Reshmin Chowdhury 1:27:40

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Reshmin Chowdhury is a sports broadcaster who’s had a love of football since she was a little girl. Growing up in a large and close Bengali community, she told me her childhood memories are of being the only girl, surrounded by boys, watching football on TV. Reshmin’s drive to break into the world of sports presenting was very strong - much to the …

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Episode 132: Nine Tame 1:10:42

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Nina Tame is a counsellor and a content creator. I started following her on Instagram because I love the way she educates non-disabled people in a light-hearted way. Nina was born with spinal bifida, and has four children. Her third child was also born with spina bifida. His arrival helped Nina accept her own disability much more, and also helped h…

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Episode 131: Joanne Hardcastle 1:08:27

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I first came to follow Joanne Hardcastle (@hardcastletowers) when she was a contestant on the fourth series of Interior Design Masters, which is one of my favourite TV shows. Joanne's husband Tim encouraged her to apply for the show and she says it was the first time she had ever put herself first, and she loves her new found 'me-time'. Joanne lost…

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Episode 130: Kirsten Lane 1:08:56

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Kirsten Lane is a freelance music supervisor who negotiates the deals that make it possible to put music into films, TV and adverts. She was the music supervisor for Saltburn and so that is how we met. She is now part of Murder on the Dancefloor’s journey and helped make its inclusion in the film’s soundtrack possible, naked dance and all! We talke…

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Episode 129: Anne Twist 1:09:30

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Anne Twist is a first time writer and a long-term philanthropist who has two very succesful grown up children. Her eldest is podcaster and writer Gemma Styles, and her youngest is the singer, Harry Styles. I spoke to Anne, not long after she’d become a grandmother for the first time, which sounds like a very special feeling indeed. She’d also just …

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Episode 128: Rachel Jackson 1:01:44

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Rachel Jackson is a jewellery designer whose work I particularly love. We even collaborated with on a necklace design once. She discovered her passion for her career while solo travelling in South America where she made a good friend Ali in Brazil and then spent 2 months living with his mum Cinderela (yes that really was her name!) who taught her h…

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Episode 127: Natalie Cassidy 1:06:17

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Natalie Cassidy is familiar to us all from EastEnders where she's been playing Sonia since the age of 10! When we met she told me about her love of growing up on a TV set, where age meant nothing and her best friend was June Brown, who was 50 years older than her! Natalie is a mum of two daughters, Eliza and Joanie. My heart melted when she describ…

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Episode 126: Natasha Khan aka Bat for Lashes 1:03:06

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Bat For Lashes aka Natasha Khan is a singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and a mum to a three year old. She has just brought out her 6th album and this one is inspired by the birth of her daughter and is called The Dream of Delphi. She was pregnant in LA during Covid and the album recalls how she reconnected with nature during that …

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Episode 125: Vicky Gill 1:15:42

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Vicky Gill is the Wardrobe Lead for Strictly Come Dancing, amongst many other things! We first met when I appeared on the show in 2013. She is passionate about merging fashion and performance. I can vouch for the fact that she is supremely talented at making costumes that people can dance in - and her sparkly leotards are still part of my onstage e…

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Episode 124: Michelle Ogundehin 1:12:37

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Michelle Ogundehin is best known as the head judge of Interior Designs Masterclass on BBC 1. It’s a programme I am utterly addicted to, and I was therefore delighted to have been asked to join as a guest judge for semi finals week, this week (TX 23/4/24). I have been a fan of Michelle’s expert eye when it comes to interiors for a long time, having …