Anna Williamson (Part Two)

Walking The Dog with Emily Dean

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Comedy, Unknown, Kids & Family, Pets & Animals, Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Emily and Raymond are in Hertford with the fabulous Anna Williamson!

In this part of our chat, we find out how Anna pivoted from girl band star to therapist to celebrity dating agent on our favourite show - Celebs Go Dating. We also discuss her own relationship with therapy and her approach to creating a safe space for her clients.

This episode contains discussion of depression, mental heath and trauma

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Keep up with everything Anna here - including links to listen to her fabulous podcasts LuAnna and The Affair. You can also find links there to purchase Anna’s brilliant books including Breaking Mad: The Insider’s Guide To Conquering Anxiety.

Celebs Go Dating series 14 is currently airing on E4. You can catch up here!

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Walking The Dog is produced by Faye Lawrence

Music: Rich Jarman

Artwork: Alice Ludlam

Photography: Karla Gowlett

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Transcript

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0:00.7	Welcome to Part 2 of Walking the Dog with the fabulous Anna Williamson.
0:04.7	Do go back and listen to Part, one if you haven't already,
0:07.2	and do catch Anna and her fellow dating experts on the current series of Celebs Go Dating on Channel 4.
0:13.5	I'd also love it if you gave us a like and a follow so you can catch us every week.
0:17.8	Here's Anna and Ray Ray.
0:20.1	You obviously had a talent for performing. You had
0:26.6	what I was called about the look at me Jean, which is, do you know what you mean? That
0:30.6	person in the room who's a bit like, Mom, Dad, I'm doing the show now. Have you met my parents
0:35.7	exactly what they said about me. I was
0:38.0	that annoying kid that was always film me film me when they had like the first you know
0:43.5	like the first edition of a massive BBC camcorda home videos. Film me film me I was always
0:49.1	wanted to play or a show. I was that annoying kid yeah. So you were the one in the family who was like,
0:54.6	tonight the Anna Williamson show.
0:57.2	Was it in the living room?
0:59.0	I think I used to, my brothers, kind of,
1:01.9	but actually it was more,
1:03.9	my brothers and I used to recreate,
1:05.7	this is the tomboy again in me,
1:07.2	used to recreate Beverly Hills cop.
1:13.0	Seriously.
1:14.1	Who were you a sex worker?
1:15.4	They picked up.
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