Episode 110: Dilly Carter

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Kat Rulach

Kids & Family, Arts, Music, Parenting

4.8 • 527 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Dilly Carter is an expert in decluttering who presents the TV show 'Sort Your LIfe Out' alongside Stacey Solomon.

Born in Sri Lanka, she was adopted and then brought up in the UK, and is very positive about the cards she was dealt. However, her childhood home was chaotic, with her parents at work all hours, and when Dilly was 11 her mum was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. During her childhood Dilly found peace when she frequently spent time at a neighbour's more ordered home. It was also at this point that she discovered her love of tidying and organising people's houses.

Dilly has a 9 year old daughter who also sounds incredibly tidy and organised and she and Dilly operate on a one thing in, one thing out policy in her bedroom, so it never becomes cluttered.

Following her recent cancer diagnosis, and a subsequent hysterectomy, Dilly is keen to encourage people with busy working lives like her, to prioritise their health. She is also an ambassador for Adoption UK.

As you will hear, Dilly is a very positive person. I was worried she'd be traumatised by visiting my house which is brimming with objects and knick-knacks, but she was very kind about it. She clearly suspects I have too many clothes - but I haven't let her look in my wardrobe yet!

Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Claire Jones and post-production by Richard Jones

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to
0:09.6	to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work.
0:14.0	I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years,
0:20.2	so I spin a few plates myself.
0:21.6	Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, but can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions.
0:27.6	I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything.
0:31.6	Welcome to spinning plates.
0:33.6	Greetings from Saturday morning. The soundtrack to this is provided by Ray. He's on the piano.
0:42.3	So right, Ray, I'm just talking about this week's podcast.
0:47.3	He's trying to learn the Halloween theme, Michael Myers theme.
0:51.3	He's coming on pretty well actually. It's quite fun. So yeah, we have reached
0:57.8	the last episode of the series, which is exciting. It's been such a brilliant 10 again. I've had
1:04.9	the lovely time. Some amazing conversations. And I have finished this series with someone who I think you know when you see
1:14.7	those women on TV and you're like I wish I had one of those people in my life well I thought I
1:19.5	would invite the original into my life Dillie Carter so I have been watching sort your life
1:26.1	out with Stacey Solomon the BBC show for ages now. It actually really works on me. I like the way that they approach it. So what it is, it's a decluttering show. And we're not talking about people who've got like bits and bobs around the house. We're talking about people where the function of their daily lives is... I'm going to get dressed.
1:44.6	All right, Ray.
1:47.2	Soon, yeah. Go and get dressed. It's all right.
1:49.6	Of course, done. Absolutely.
1:55.2	That's right. I'll have to get dressed. It's Saturday morning, just so you know.
2:07.8	Yes. In the show, it's people whose daily, the daily function of their lives is completely prohibited by the amount of chaos and clutter that's their house.
2:10.0	And sometimes it presents quite well.
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