Episode 125: Vicky Gill
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Vicky Gill is the Wardrobe Lead for Strictly Come Dancing, amongst many other things! We first met when I appeared on the show in 2013. She is passionate about merging fashion and performance. I can vouch for the fact that she is supremely talented at making costumes that people can dance in - and her sparkly leotards are still part of my onstage essentials today. But as a mum of three she was also great at sharing glimpses of normal family life with me, which you very much appreciate when you are on the Strictly juggernaut!
When we spoke, Vicky had just finished Dancing on Ice and was about to start work on the Girls Aloud tour. She is a very busy woman.
Vicky and her husband are from Newcastle originally but live in London, and as their family support network is far away, she descibes their stiuation as 'us against the world'. She is hoping her children - now in their teens and beyond - don't choose the creative careers which she and her husband have (between you and me, I don't think that's working so far!) but she says she just wants them to feel happy in their skin.
Vicky prides herself on being a problem-solver - both in her working life and in her parenting. And sometimes the worlds have collided - as when she was working with Girls Aloud just after her daughter was born, when she found that nappy cream comes in handy for getting boob tape off!
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 Lysbexter 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. Being a |
| 0:22.6 | mother can be the most amazing thing but can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own |
| 0:27.2 | ambitions. I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:46.3 | Hello, how are you? I am talking to you from my bathroom. It is Saturday morning and sorry I stand the opening some shampoo. And it has been a busy old time in the Alice |
| 0:52.5 | Bates of Joan's house since we last spoke. |
| 0:55.0 | A couple of things. |
| 0:57.0 | Well, actually, I've had a really good week. |
| 0:59.0 | It's been very busy, but it's been really good. |
| 1:01.0 | I've been songwriting, and I think I've written some really good stuff this week, guys. |
| 1:06.0 | I know. It sounds a little heady. |
| 1:09.0 | But basically, when you write songs, sometimes you get this |
| 1:13.2 | fizzy feeling of like, oh, that was a good one. And I've had it with three songs this week, |
| 1:18.7 | so I'm like, that's great. And it's a bit like having a cocktail or something. It gives you |
| 1:22.9 | a bit of a head rush. And it's like something where you think, right, I want to do more of that. |
| 1:28.9 | And I've been working with some lovely people I did some writing with an amazing Norwegian singer who I love called |
| 1:34.3 | Sigrid and yeah I've just been having a really nice week I've been enjoying myself and let's see what |
| 1:41.8 | comes out of it see let's see but it's good, because when you're writing, |
| 1:45.0 | you just need a bit of good momentum. |
| 1:47.0 | You need to keep feeling positive and upbeat. |
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