Denise Welch on Simon Cowell, Glasto Flags and why Mother Has ARRIVED!
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Merry Christmas!
As promised here's the second of three festive treats.
Whilst Kylie Minogue may have landed the Christmas Number One - the most surprising entry in the running for top of the pops this year was Denise Welch. It marks the end of an extraordinary year which started in a very dark place, saw her die at least three times (according to social media), get lost flying over the Alps in a hot air balloon (it's a long story!) and get reinvented as the undisputed Queen of the Huns. When flags are being flown at Glastonbury featuring your name and face - you know you've become an icon.
In this extremely honest interview Denise talks about the highs and lows of 2025, her love of reality TV, her flirtation with a pop career and why she things everything has suddenly come good for her.
We've saved Noddy Holder for pudding on Christmas Day, and we'll be back with a brand new episode on New Year's Day.
Thanks as always for listening - have a fabulous festive season.
Cheers
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of White Wine Question Time. |
| 0:06.1 | I had been talking to Ryan Kay, who I'd known for a few years. |
| 0:09.8 | He got so excited about adding to the Renaissance of me in a different way. |
| 0:15.0 | And he put me in the Holland Cooper suit with the tie. |
| 0:18.3 | And I wore it and I felt a million dollars. |
| 0:20.6 | Attitude, as I got out of the car, |
| 0:22.9 | Attitude's caption was, Mother Has Arrime. I sang, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, as part of |
| 0:30.3 | a fictional talent show. And Simon Cowell heard that I was doing this and obviously, latching |
| 0:36.0 | onto the success of Robbson and Jerome, |
| 0:38.7 | contacted me. Years later, it turned out Simon told me that Robson thought, I can't cope with |
| 0:45.8 | two people from the same show doing the same thing. So you're not allowed to sign her. |
| 0:50.2 | Robson killed it. Robson Green. There you go. |
| 0:55.9 | Hello and welcome to white wine question time, the podcast that usually asks its guests, |
| 1:00.2 | three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. |
| 1:03.7 | But no booze today, because my guest is, well, T-Total, one of my best friends. |
| 1:09.3 | And I promise you that by the end of this podcast, you'll |
| 1:12.2 | end up feeling like she's one of yours too. And that is part of her magic. And what makes it |
| 1:17.4 | all the more potent is that it's all entirely authentic, her whipsmart humour, her warmth, her |
| 1:24.3 | interest in everyone, her ability to tell stories that make up her truly extraordinary life. |
| 1:31.2 | Like, remember the time that she went viral, telling dirty jokes in front of Tom Cruise at Michael Kane's 90th birthday? |
| 1:38.9 | Or this year when she became a brat flag at Glastonbury, where she happened to be because her eldest child |
| 1:45.6 | was headlining the pyramid stage. That's what I mean about an extraordinary life and an |
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