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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 128: Rachel Jackson

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

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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Episode 127: Natalie Cassidy

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2024/05/13

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 friendwas June Brown, who was 50 years older than her!Natalieis a mum of two daughters, Eliza and Joanie.My heart melted when she described how she and her husband Marc met when Eliza was just three, and he said he'd fallen in love first with Natalie and then when he met Eliza, he fell in love

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Episode 126: Natasha Khan aka Bat for Lashes

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2024/05/06

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 time, reflecting the landscape of the city, mountains and the desert. She's now separated from Delphi's Dad but explained they are still best friends and

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Episode 125: Vicky Gill

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2024/04/29

Vicky Gill is the Wardrobe Lead for StrictlyCome Dancing, amongst many other things! We first met when I appeared on theshow in 2013. She is passionate about merging fashion and performance. I can vouch for the fact that she is supremely talentedat making costumes that people can dance in - and her sparkly leotards are still part of my onstage essentials today. But as a mum of three she was also great at sharing glimpses of normal family life with me, which you very much appreciate when you are on

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Episode 124: Michelle Ogundehin

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2024/04/22

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 devoured every issue of Elle Decoration published during her time as editor in chief from 2004 to 2017. I love her approach to homes and how they make you

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Episode 123: Heather James

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2024/04/15

Heather James is best known to us all as the mum of Deborah James, the beautiful bowelbabe, who I interviewed for Spinning Plates 3 years ago.That was the year before her premature death at the age of 40, from bowel cancer.Heather explained how she is grieving but working.Not only working in her day job as a gymnastics teacher, but also doing everything that Deborah would have continued with - including campaigning to highlight April as Bowel Cancer Awareness month.Deborah spent the last weeks of

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Episode 122: Natasha Bedingfield

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2024/04/08

Natasha Bedingfield is a New Zealand-UK singer and songwriter who started out in the business at a similar time to me.Another shared link is that we are both currently on a new adventure with songs we brought out originally in our early 20s! How's that for a coincidence?We've each been on an unexpected and exciting journey with our old songs... both because of recent films.The film 'Anyone but You' featured Natasha's 'Unwritten' which originally charted nearly 20 years ago.And my adventure has been

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Episode 121: Trinny Woodall

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2024/02/12

Trinny Woodall is the CEO of the beautybrand Trinny London - she's an entrepreneur, businesswoman and author.She became a household name in the late 90s when she teamed up withSusannah Constantine to present the TV makeover show What Not to Wear.Last year she published her book Fearless about how to find your style and boost your confidence.She has a 20 year old daughter Lyla, who she describes as joyful, and she told me how, without her own roadmap to motherhood, she found a way to bring Lyla up,

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Episode 120: Michelle Kennedy

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2024/02/05

Michelle Kennedy is a tech entrepreneur and businesswoman.She is CEO of Peanut App, and mum to two young children, Finlay and Nuala.Michelle started her working life as a corporate lawyer and became interested in tech when she worked for Badoo and then Bumble.She set up Peanut after she gave birth to her first child and felt lonely and isolated.Peanut is an online community for women, as Michelle says, at 'seismic stages' of their life including fertility, pregnancy, motherhood and menopause. It's a

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Episode 119: Kelly Hoppen

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2024/01/29

Kelly Hoppen is an interior designer who is renowned for working with big celebrity names and is known for her signature neutral palette.Kelly started her business aged 16 and a half, just afer her father died unexpectedly, and she told me that the feeling she wants to create for her clients is the one she had from her grandmother's home where she remembers learning to crochet and having tea.Kelly has spoken openly about being dyslexic. When we met at her office, just before Christmas, she described

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Episode 118: Sophie Darlington

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2024/01/22

Sophie Darlington is a wildlife cinematographer for shows such as David Attenborough's 'Planet Earth'. She regularly gets up way before dawn in places such as Sri Lanka or East Africa, and sits for over 12 hours a day watching the animal she’s filming, often for weeks at a time. She says it’s the best job in the world but you come back 'rinsed'. When her son Louis came along 23 years ago, Sophie had to take a break from her cinematography work for several years, but she returned when Louis was 4 and

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Episode 117: Amy Hart

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2024/01/15

Amy Hart is a social media influencer, former reality TV star and podcast presenter.She appeared in Love Island in 2019 (Richard and I are avid viewers!) and she now has an adorable little baby called Stanley.Amy is the only Love Island contestant to have appeared on Question Time and she is a big food bank supporter.Amy worked as cabin crew before she joined Love Island, which I imagined would prepare her for sleep-deprived motherhood...except Stanley is a very good baby and sleeps through the

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Episode 116: Gabby Logan

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2024/01/08

Gabby Logan is best known as a BBC sports presenter but has also turned her hand to stand up comedy for Sports Relief (2012), to writing her memoir called The First Half, and to ice baths on Freeze Your Fear (2022).She hosts an excellent podcast called Mid-Life in which she, a guest and an expert explore how to navigate the mysterious territory of middle age.She has 18 year old twins and is married to retired Scottish rugby union player Kenny Logan.I spoke to Gabby a few months after her son Reuben

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Episode 115: Alex Head

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2023/12/18

Alex Head is the founder of Social Pantry which runs food events with the wow factor, as well as a restaruant, and a cafe.I first met Alex this Summer where she was rustling up a banquet twice a day, in a tent at Latitude Festval. Two of the banquets featured food from 'Love, Food, Family' and Richard and I had the much easier job of meeting and greeting everybody there.Alex got into catering aged 16 when she was expelled from school in Saudi, just before her GCSEs.As she says, she was quite

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Episode 114: Sandra Igwe

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2023/12/11

Sandra Igwe decided to turn a painful experience into purpose.When we spoke recently she told me about some of her difficult experiences both during childbirth and afterwards.These led her to become the founder of The Motherhood Group which supports the Black maternal experience. Sandra has also written My Black Motherhood which demands that Black women are listened to, believed and understood by healthcare professionals.We spoke about Sandra’s two daughters Zoe and Chloe, and the legacy Sandra

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Episode 113: Julia Bradbury

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2023/12/04

Julia Bradbury is a TV presenter and an author with a passion for the outdoors.She has a 12 year old son, and 8 year old twin daughters who she had through IVF.Her motto to them is: 'Be good, be strong, be kind'.We met at Julia's London West London home andtalked about how in 2021, she and her husband had the nightmare task of breaking the news of her breast cancer diagnosis to their children.She also mentioned how 'Fruitfly Collective' and 'Maggie's Centres' can support all sorts of people at these

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Episode 112: Helen Skelton

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2023/11/27

Presenter Helen Skelton has been a familiar and much-loved presence on our TV screens since she presented Blue Peter (2008-2013) and then Countryfile.Famous for her can-do attitude to life she still has several Guinness World Records under her belt, she’s run a Namibian ultra-marathon (which is 3 marathons back to back), kayaked the entire length of the Amazon, and made it to the finals of Celebrity SAS Who Dares Wins... and Strictly!Helen and her three children now live in Cumbria, near where Helen

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Bonus Episode: Janet Ellis

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2023/10/16

This is an extra special bonus episode in partnership with the lovely team at Clarks.Thanks to Clarks, I have brought my mum, Janet Ellis, back for this special shoecentric chat!We talked about the excitement of buying your child’s first pair of shoes, and we happily admit that we very much share the sentimental gene, as we have kept all our children’s ‘firsts’. My mum even has them on display as you go down the stairs to her kitchen.My Ma also shares her memory of a Clark’s badge that she got as a

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Episode 110: Dilly Carter

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2023/10/09

Dilly Carter is an expert in decluttering who presents the TV show 'Sort Your LIfe Out' alongside Stacey Solomon.Born in Sri Lanka, she was adopted and then brought up in the UK, and is very positive about the cards she was dealt.However, her childhood home was chaotic, with her parents at work all hours, and when Dilly was 11 her mum was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. During her childhood Dilly found peace when she frequently spent time at a neighbour's more ordered home. It was also at this

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Episode 109: Charlotte Hawkins

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2023/10/02

Charlotte Hawkins presents Good Morning Britain where she proudly helps set the news agenda for the day and quizzes the people in power on the TV viewer's behalf.She also has a lifelong love of music and presents a show on Classic FM.Charlotte talked about how she and her husband tried without success to have a baby and were just about to set off down the IVF route when Charlotte unexpectedly became pregnant.She also spoke about how she lost her beloved Dad to motor neurone disease, just a month

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