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Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Hello I’m Sophie Ellis-Bextor and this is my new series Spinning Plates where I speak to busy working women, who also happen to be mothers, about how they make it work. I am a singer and have released 7 albums in-between having my 5 sons who are aged between 1 and 16 so I spin a few plates myself. Being a mother can be the most amazing thing.. but it can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. Join me while I

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Episode 147: Arlene Phillips

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2025/02/24

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 Music', and then she had her second daughter Abi when she was 47, when she actually thought her symptoms meant she was entering the menopause.We spoke at

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Episode 146: Princess Superstar

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2025/02/17

Princess Superstaris an American rapper and DJ.She and I are ‘Saltburn sisters’ as we both had our songsfeatured 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, believingthatmainstream school doesn't nurture a child's uniquecreativity.She also shared with me how, after 10 successful years, she suffered with crippling writer's block in 2010.But she started writing again after she had

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Episode 145: Abbie Ward

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2025/02/10

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 also her head coach, and together they have a daughter Hallie who was born in the summer of 2023.Abbie trained up till 3 days before she had Hallie by

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Episode 144: Sarah Megginson

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2025/02/03

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 to her, although she carried and gave birth to him for her friend.We talked about her surrogacy journey and how it has been a positive and ‘expansive’

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Episode 143: Katherine Jenkins

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2025/01/27

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 to the studio to work on a new album. She continues to write, record and perform concerts all over the world.She has two children: Aaliyah aged 9 and

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Episode 142: Cat Sims

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2025/01/20

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 is like doing therapy for Cat. She shared how she suffered with post natal depression and has more recently had a late diagnosis of ADHD at the age of 40.We

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Episode 141: Pixie Lott

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2025/01/13

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 joy and the worry that comes when we say no to a gig, and how we look after our singing voices. Let’s just say, Pixie does it a lot better than me!Pixie's

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Episode 140: Anna Williamson

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2024/11/25

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 Go Dating ( which happens to be one of my favourite shows).Anna has an eight-year-old son Enzo and a four-year-old daughter Eleonora. We talked about her

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Episode 139: Lliana Bird

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2024/11/18

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 told me how their house might be described as over-stimulating by some, with constant music, curated mostly by Noel but increasingly by the children, and with

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Episode 138: Sara Pascoe

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2024/11/10

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 ababy, and acknowledges she was 'horribly spiky' about parenthoodbefore she had her boys, realising now that it was self-protection and a coping mechanism.She shared that she recently had a phone call from Robbie Williams who she idolised as a

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Episode 137: Holly McNish

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2024/11/04

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 poems of hers during our chat.Hollie told me how she books her own gigs, which impresses me a lot. She said that she loves travelling around Britain

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Episode 136: Steph Douglas

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2024/10/28

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 felt she now had something else she had to look after, as well as her newborn!Steph told me how she and her husband also had something unusually tough to

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Episode 135: Ashley James

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2024/10/21

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 accent. She told me about her extraordinary school days, and very tough adolescence, after she won a scholarship to an all boys boarding school.Ashley is mum to

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Episode 134: Sister Bliss

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2024/10/14

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 talked about how she took her son Nate on tour as a baby and how he adapted so brilliantly to life on the road, with Faithless.Nate has just turned 18 and

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Episode 133: Reshmin Chowdhury

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2024/10/07

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 surprise of her teacher Mum and accountant Dad - and she is proud to have made it, although she feels it shouldn’t have been that hard. Her parents were

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Episode 132: Nine Tame

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2024/09/30

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 her own mum come to terms with her complex feelings, including guilt of having a disabled child. Incidentally, I spoke to Nina when she had recently lost

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Episode 131: Joanne Hardcastle

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2024/09/23

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 toapply 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 her mum at the age of 17 and had a strong urge to become a mum herself, and she has been open about having 6 miscarriages during her motherhood journey.She

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Episode 130: Kirsten Lane

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2024/06/03

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 talked about the importance of music in changing the atmosphere, and she sees it almost as another character on screen.Kirsten told me how she had made her

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Episode 129: Anne Twist

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2024/05/27

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 published her first children’s book ‘Betty and the Mysterious Visitor’.We talked about Anne’s lifelong battle with shyness, the pride that she feels about

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Episode 128: Rachel Jackson

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2024/05/20

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 how to make jewellery. 6 weeks after she returned to the UK Ali was killed in a plane accident which made Rachel feel how fleeting life is.She then gave up a

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