Andrea McLean on the shame of financial ruin & how she’s getting her life back on track
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In a fascinating, hopeful & helpful conversation the TV presenter & author opens up to Trish & Lorraine about the illness & business venture that ended with her losing her house & selling off her furniture to pay for weekly grocery shops. From being the presenter of Loose Women to being unable to get a job in Starbucks, Andrea describes the highs, the lows & the learnings from a tumultuous period in her life, including the crushing blow of being told ‘Your star has faded’. She also shares the resources that helped her get back on track & how to cope with financial stress while keeping a marriage together in the process.
Plus: Lorraine’s helpful health alert & Trish’s Swedish adventure
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, lovely listeners. We are back. Back in the room, we had a little short break, |
| 0:13.8 | but it is now season 18 of your favourite podcast. We've got some great midlife guests coming up |
| 0:19.2 | and heaps of advice coming for you |
| 0:21.7 | over the next few weeks. Buckle up. How have you been my one and only little colleague? |
| 0:29.2 | Very good. Thank you. Had a nice couple of weeks. But I feel like season 18, does that make us |
| 0:34.0 | podcast adults? Maybe it does. Don't know. Don't know. Don't care. Don't know. Don't |
| 0:38.6 | care. I've have actually been celebrating another big date or I'm about to celebrate a big |
| 0:43.0 | date. 30th wedding anniversary. I know. It's unimaginable. 30 years of Neil. Exactly. We're off |
| 0:50.4 | to Stockholm tomorrow actually with the twins because they're finishing uni as well. |
| 0:55.7 | So I think I've mentioned this before. |
| 0:57.1 | So, but it's been great because I did one of those, popped a little thing on the postcards, |
| 1:01.5 | Facebook group, any suggestions for Stockholm. |
| 1:04.4 | And I've had so many lovely recommendations, which is really good. |
| 1:07.6 | Obviously, I can't pronounce the names of anything. |
| 1:10.3 | Oh, do try though, Trish. I like it when you try. I am actually looking forward to a little bit of word mangling. Go on. Mangle this. Okay. So I'm going to a restaurant that Lovely Hannah recommended, which I have but called, it's spelled T-J-O-G-E-T. |
| 1:29.0 | Shogget. |
| 1:30.0 | Shugget. |
| 1:31.0 | Shugut. |
| 1:31.9 | I don't know there's a load of people. |
| 1:34.1 | Apparently T-J is shh, could you believe. |
| 1:36.8 | And then I've got a little, apparently, I just googled, you know, funny, you know, French, where am I? |
| 1:42.6 | Swedish sayings. |
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