Episode 119: Kelly Hoppen
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Kelly Hoppen is an interior designer who is renowned for working with big celebrity names and is known for her signature neutral palette.
Kelly started her business aged 16 and a half, just afer her father died unexpectedly, and she told me that the feeling she wants to create for her clients is the one she had from her grandmother's home where she remembers learning to crochet and having tea.
Kelly has spoken openly about being dyslexic. When we met at her office, just before Christmas, she described how music is a massive component in her design process, and that she will often ask a client which song would sum up the look of the room they want her to create for them.
Kelly had her daughter Natasha when she was 23, and became stepmother to Sienna and Savannah Miller when they were teenagers, and the three girls ended up going to boarding school together. She says being a stepmum to Sienna and Savannah is one of the greatest achievements of her life.
Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Claire Jones and post-production by Richard Jones.
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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 it can also be hard to find time for |
| 0:26.3 | yourself and your own ambitions I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people |
| 0:30.5 | balance everything welcome to spinning plates hello How are you? It is Friday afternoon. I am in my usual spot, actually. I'm in the room that's Mickey's bedroom and my dressing room. And it's looking unusually tidy. This morning I had Joe Elvin, who was filming for Lorraine, |
| 1:02.0 | a wardrobe, a little piece about my wardrobe, basically. And so it looks really tidy because |
| 1:09.7 | basically I knew a little camera crew were coming over to look at my sparkly outfits. |
| 1:14.5 | But I didn't really tidy. I just scooped up armfuls of stuff in corners, in piles, on the floor, on chairs, on the sofa, and put them all on the floor on my bedroom. |
| 1:29.1 | So I'm just about, after I finish speaking to you, I'm going to go and get all the clothes and bring them back and maybe try and actually hang them up. I want to have a tidy space. It's just time, isn't it? I'm sure I've said it to you before, but I just sometimes think just a sort of week of time in the house with no one here. |
| 1:45.8 | Like, they can come in in the evenings, like after school and stuff, but just if I have a week off, basically, an empty house during the day, I think I could get on top of a lot of things, but that's just not the life I'm currently living. And probably as well, if I was living it, I'd probably be sad because it would mean my work had gone quiet. |
| 2:02.8 | So I'd have a day of like, woo, and then I'd be like, hmm, I just nobody wants me. |
| 2:07.3 | So anyway, I'm planning what to wear for tonight and tomorrow. I've got two things this weekend. |
| 2:13.4 | I'm singing tonight for an awards thing, because of work awards in Telford. I know. And then, get this, |
| 2:24.2 | my weekend is Telford to Paris. I know. Yeah, typical you say. What a usual trip. So tonight |
| 2:32.0 | I'm in Telford and tomorrow morning I'm on the train to Paris |
| 2:35.1 | because tomorrow I'm singing |
| 2:36.2 | on a show called Star Academy |
| 2:38.1 | or Star Academy |
| 2:39.8 | as I said to my son last night |
| 2:41.3 | and he was like, |
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