Ellie Simmonds on forgiveness, retirement, and speaking up
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Welcome to White Wine Question Time, where on Thursdays we raise a glass with a brand new guest.
This week we welcome 5 times gold medal winning British Paralympian Ellie Simmonds to the show to talk about forgiveness, retirement, speaking up, and reconnecting with her birth mum.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of White Wine Question Time. |
| 0:06.0 | In a way, you lose your identity. |
| 0:08.6 | You know, I was being known as Ellie Simmons, the swimmer, for so many years. |
| 0:13.5 | And I knew I was good at swimming. |
| 0:15.8 | But who am I now? |
| 0:17.3 | What do I enjoy doing? |
| 0:18.8 | What am I good at? |
| 0:19.9 | You know, majority of those years that |
| 0:22.0 | you figure yourself out, you're growing up. Like, I was swimming. I had these visions of what my |
| 0:28.1 | birth one was going to be like and like, I don't know, you just want to have that picture |
| 0:33.7 | to be able to grasp on and actually see who you look like and see those characteristics. |
| 0:39.2 | Wales has got a whole place in my heart. I had an amazing time there and I loved my school there |
| 0:45.0 | and learning Welsh and did do that well at GCSE. Failed it but you know what? Like the Welsh people |
| 0:51.4 | are so friendly and I love my time. Five Paralympic goals. |
| 0:55.6 | We'll let you off. |
| 0:59.3 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time. |
| 1:01.9 | The podcast had asked its guests three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. |
| 1:06.5 | And my guest today is a British Paralympian and record-breaking swimmer who might also just be one |
| 1:12.3 | of the most endearing and in turn inspiring women you could hope to spend an hour with. |
| 1:17.6 | She's 31 now and was born with the most common form of dwarfism and was given up for adoption |
| 1:22.9 | when she was just two weeks old, going on to be raised in a really loving home by Val |
| 1:26.9 | and Steve, alongside |
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