Claire Sweeney on working with Hollywood heartthrobs & hosting Eurovision
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Actress, singer and West End star Claire Sweeney joins Trish and Lorraine to talk about her stellar career, from working men’s clubs and cruise ships to Brookside and starring roles alongside Don Johnson and Patrick Swayze in hit shows Chicago and Guys & Dolls. She also reveals how she’s dealing with the overwhelm of peri-menopause while single parenting, has learned to take knock backs in her stride and the joy of a good bacon buttie on the bus. Plus: forget ‘go hard or go home’ - why midlife is a time for ‘softening’; and a Nostalgic Trip back to rubbish films from the 80s
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| 0:00.0 | baby sale now on at the baby room at Smith's in store and online with amazing |
| 0:05.6 | savings on selected car seats, frams, cots, high chairs and much more baby sale now |
| 0:11.0 | on at the baby room at Smith's sale ends Monday the 15th of January |
| 0:31.0 | had a little bit of an incident in the garden center last week Lorraine did it |
| 0:36.5 | involve your elasticated trousers or well it's the place to wear elasticated |
| 0:42.1 | trousers isn't it now I popped in on a Wednesday thought I'd just pick up a |
| 0:45.6 | few pretty little plants for my patio pots and I was at the till ready to pay |
| 0:51.0 | and this one said oh would you like 10% off today and I said yes I I really |
| 0:56.7 | would like 10% off today and she said oh well that's good because we do 10% |
| 1:01.8 | off for over 50s on a Wednesday oh no it's happened literally no kind of |
| 1:10.6 | question how old are you oh no she just knew she just knew what do we feel |
| 1:15.8 | about that she knew she knew from looking at you she wouldn't have said that |
| 1:20.2 | to JLo would she no of course not no exactly or be on say oh she's not over |
| 1:26.0 | 50 |
| 1:28.8 | was a little turning point I think and a point of acceptance just good you know |
| 1:34.5 | just deal with it really anyway the plants are very pretty it happens to me you |
| 1:38.6 | know obviously I'll have to go to A&E and lie down for 10,000 years and be |
| 1:42.0 | fanned by people yes yes you'll be raging |
| 1:54.5 | welcome to postcards from midlife I'm Lorraine Candy and I'm Trish helping if |
| 1:59.5 | you're living in a hormonal hot house feeling a bit overwhelmed and in need of |
| 2:03.7 | some positive uplifting and comforting guidance on how to lead a more |
| 2:07.5 | magnificent midlife than this is the show for you we chat to celebrities and |
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