Episode 124: Michelle Ogundehin
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Michelle Ogundehin is best known as the head judge of Interior Designs Masterclass on BBC 1. It’s a programme I am utterly addicted to, and I was therefore delighted to have been asked to join as a guest judge for semi finals week, this week (TX 23/4/24). I have been a fan of Michelle’s expert eye when it comes to interiors for a long time, having devoured every issue of Elle Decoration published during her time as editor in chief from 2004 to 2017. I love her approach to homes and how they make you feel, always taking into account the link between our environment and how it affects our mental health.
Off-screen, Michelle is a devoted single mum to her 10 year old son. She became a mum later in life, after years of trying, and her journey included IVF and four miscarriages. She says her son is the best thing that has ever happened to her.
We talked about her worries about becoming a mum due to her own mother not being maternal or loving to her.
She told me how she has recently been ‘album-ing’ her life and also that she believes that what surrounds us at home affects us.
I finally tested her boundaries when I mischievously suggested she should let her little boy draw on his bedroom walls, just as my mum let me!
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. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, |
| 0:20.4 | so I spin a few plates myself. |
| 0:22.3 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:24.9 | but can also be hard to find time for yourself |
| 0:26.8 | and your own ambitions. |
| 0:28.3 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:34.7 | Hello to you, I speak to you from Sunday morning. This is the third time I've tried to record this. |
| 0:42.0 | The first time was yesterday and I was very happy chatting away to you about this week's guest |
| 0:49.6 | and all the things I've been up to recently and then two of the kids started having a fight. |
| 0:54.0 | So I had to stop what I was doing the kids started having a fight so I had to |
| 0:54.8 | stop what I was doing and just now I was very happily chatting to you about everything and then |
| 1:00.0 | one of my kids got very cross that I wasn't playing with him which is fair enough I hear you say but |
| 1:05.6 | you know I did all the classic stuff I acknowledged him I said give me two minutes it wasn't enough |
| 1:10.4 | so now he's happy, |
| 1:13.9 | and I'm going to try this again. And it's a Sunday morning, as I said, the sun is shining. |
| 1:19.9 | I'm in the middle of a massive clear-out of a cupboard. We have a cupboard under the stairs that |
| 1:24.4 | keeps all our coats and shoes, and I've pulled everything out, which at first felt wonderful. And now I was in that horrible bit where you've actually just got to keep going with the job that you're now not feeling quite as enthusiastic about. But I have found stuff in there I don't need. So there's a nice little pile of things building for the charity shop and all good. And what else have I done this weekend? |
| 1:45.7 | It's been pretty mixed. |
| 1:47.6 | I, and like lots of fun. |
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