Chaka Khan
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Alice Williams
4.7 • 12.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We’re still pinching ourselves that we had the absolutely legendary Chaka Khan join us this week! Chaka arrived fresh in from visiting a local school, and she brought her gorgeous sister Tammy & daughter Dana along with her too. Over mum’s delicious afternoon tea we talked all about the phenomenal career Chaka has had, including her upcoming album and brand new musical ‘I’m Every Woman’ launching in the UK. We heard about her skincare routine (our fave topic!), living in Georgia with her family, her dislike of touring, how she became Sia’s godmother, the food served at Nelson Mandela’s birthday party, her love of the TV show 'The Chase’, plus she shares all the stories of hanging out with (wait for it) - Prince, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner & Michael Jackson - no biggy! We barely scratched the surface with this legend, this episode absolutely needs a part 2!
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| 0:00.0 | Jesse's new album Superbloom is available to pre-order now. |
| 0:07.9 | There's a 10% discount if you go to her store, jessieware.com, and put in table manners. |
| 0:15.2 | James Norton's not included. |
| 0:16.9 | Teas and C's apply. |
| 0:17.9 | He lets me leave. He's and sees apply. |
| 0:33.6 | Hello and welcome to Table manners. I'm Jesse Ware and I'm here with, why are you looking so shocked? |
| 0:34.6 | Nothing, I'm looking at you. |
| 0:38.1 | You look shocked. Like you've never seen me before. Or I'm a ghost. |
| 0:38.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.2 | Are you okay, Lenny? Are you ghost? Yeah. No. Bye. Where have you been this week, Lenny? I went to my old university. Oh, yeah. And I spoke to students about podcasting. And they were very, very interesting. Prof. Prof. Pross, Lent. Not really Pross. |
| 0:54.7 | Doc? |
| 0:55.6 | Dock? |
| 0:56.5 | Did you get an honorary doctorate? That would be nice. That would have been like a really... I'm going to mention that. She just written and said thank you and I said... Yeah, where's my honorary doctor? Dot. So we can have two doctors in the family. Yeah. It was very interesting. They asked very interesting questions. |
| 1:12.6 | They asked something, which I hadn't really struck me with our podcast, are we concerned about AI? |
| 1:19.1 | I said, well, I want like a fake image of myself, something like a deep fake. |
| 1:23.1 | A deep fake of me. They put me on the head of something. I don't know. But I'd never thought about AI in our podcast. Had you? No. Neither did I. Are you worried now? I am slightly because they can clone your voice, Jess. Oh God. They've got years to go by. Oh, God. Yeah. Well, I've never thought about that, but thank you for stressing us out. |
| 1:45.1 | Did you see my tree? |
| 1:46.9 | Your tree in the back. Has it been moved? Your magnolia is looking divine. It's the best. |
| 1:52.4 | Divine. It is the best magnolia ever. You know, my main memory of that, and I think I thought I was in like Dawson's Creek or a teen coming of age. |
| 2:01.9 | Yeah. |
| 2:02.2 | I used to sing the bangles up there. |
| 2:04.5 | You sat in the little fog of the tree. |
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