Episode 127: Natalie Cassidy
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Natalie Cassidy is familiar to us all from EastEnders where she's been playing Sonia since the age of 10!
When we met she told me about her love of growing up on a TV set, where age meant nothing and her best friend was June Brown, who was 50 years older than her!
Natalie is a mum of two daughters, Eliza and Joanie. My heart melted when she described how she and her husband Marc met when Eliza was just three, and he said he'd fallen in love first with Natalie and then when he met Eliza, he fell in love again.
Natalie's about to turn 41 this week. She already has one podcast 'Off the Telly' which she co-hosts with actress Joanna Page and she's just launched a solo podcast 'Life With Nat' which immediately went to number one in the podcast charts!
We talked about how grateful we are that we didn't have social media as teenagers and we revisited our teen love of culottes! Also I tried to invite myself on her podcast to talk about teenagers and phones. I have no shame!
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 Lyspexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to |
| 0:09.6 | 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. |
| 0:35.4 | Morning, it's Sunday. I actually completely forgot that I was supposed to get to do this for Richard. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm running very late. He's away and, yeah, I just feel like I've been a bit chasing Mattel this week. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm speaking to you from Sunday morning. Richard asked me to send over my introduction and my afternoon. Sorry, Mickey. |
| 0:57.1 | In a second, Boo-boo, I've got to record this for the podcast. I think he asked me yesterday. I was like, |
| 1:03.4 | sure, sure, sure, incoming. I completely forgot. Mickey is playing a game on the PS5. |
| 1:11.7 | He's only five. |
| 1:12.8 | It's quite a child-friendly game this time, but I have to say, sometimes standards get a bit woolly. |
| 1:18.2 | It's quite hard when you've got four big brothers in the house, or three in the house as it is now, with a little one, |
| 1:23.4 | because they kind of get exposed to everything. |
| 1:24.9 | But right now it does seem to be a child-friendly game |
| 1:29.5 | and I'm sitting here with them. |
| 1:30.9 | Every once in a while he'll ask me to help and I can't help. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm feeling good. |
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