Adele Roberts
Reasons To Be Joyful with Gaby Roslin
Spiritland Productions
4.7 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Adele Roberts joins Gaby for a celebration of life and laughter and all things joy.
From Big Brother to Radio 1, to the Guinness Book Of World Records - Adele is an inspiration and a joy spreader - whose attitude and love of life is infectious.
Gaby chats to Adele about early fame, coming out on TV, her love of music and radio - and whether she might ever go back to presenting?
They also discuss her love of running - which started when she was 37 and has been a huge part of Adele's life ever since. She recently ran the London Marathon which her stoma on show - as part of her ongoing campaign to normalise hidden disabilities and to encourage people to get their poo checked!
Remember you can watch all our episodes on YouTube - and see some of the footage from Adele's marathon on Gaby's instagram!
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:09.0 | It's that Gabby Rosslin podcast, Gabby Rosslin podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Reasons to be joyful is the biggest reason that I wanted you to be on here, Adele Roberts, because you're a reason |
| 0:22.8 | to be joyful throughout everything that you do, everything that you cope with, you just spread, |
| 0:29.4 | look at that smile, you just spread joy. |
| 0:31.9 | Thank you for saying that. |
| 0:33.2 | I think it's a conscious choice. |
| 0:35.4 | It's something that I try and practice daily, |
| 0:37.8 | and it's because I never used to be like that. |
| 0:39.7 | And I've found through life that being happy is so much easier. |
| 0:44.4 | Why suffer twice? |
| 0:45.7 | I've learned that from the stoics. |
| 0:48.6 | And yeah, it's something I definitely work at. |
| 0:50.4 | But anybody who's listening to this and struggles, |
| 0:53.9 | if you can start to move your way |
| 0:55.8 | towards the light, your life gets better. Now, a lot of people, when I say that to people, |
| 1:02.3 | and I'm lucky because I've always been a very positive person, that a lot of people say, |
| 1:06.3 | oh, it's so easy for you to say that. But actually, it's not easy. |
| 1:12.0 | And you've certainly been very honest and open and public about what you've gone through. |
| 1:18.4 | And yet you still manage to shine. |
| 1:21.0 | Thank you. |
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