Episode 148: Tuppence Middleton
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Actress Tuppence Middleton is perhaps best known for playing Lucy Branson in Downton Abbey.
She has a little girl with her Swedish husband and divides her time between England and Sweden.
I spoke to Tuppence the week before her memoir Scorpions was published. It’s a highly personal book about living with OCD and it really helped me understand the day to day complexities of dealing with OCD and with emetophobia - the fear of being sick.
We also talked about how OCD has given her a greater empathy for other people, and how it means she is always prepared for the worst case scenario.
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. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 |
| 0:19.6 | years, 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. |
| 0:34.9 | Hey, it's half-past one on Friday night, as in 1.30am. |
| 0:40.5 | Crazy time to be speaking to you. |
| 0:42.4 | Crazy time for me to be awake. |
| 0:44.2 | I think my body's really confused. |
| 0:46.8 | I had a, very happily actually, I had a gig that was booked for in Miami, of all places. |
| 0:53.9 | And I did that on Monday night. And because it was |
| 0:56.3 | near half town, we took the kids, which is something I'm trying to do because I've been traveling |
| 1:00.3 | so much over the last year and a half. I always traveled for work, but the last year has been |
| 1:05.9 | pretty insane with travel. And so rather than missing home and missing the kids, Richard has been |
| 1:12.1 | really brilliant at encouraging us to just sweep the kids up with us. So we took them to Miami for |
| 1:18.7 | the half term and had a lovely holiday and ended up being away for a while, which I know sounds |
| 1:23.4 | really boogie. And actually it is quite. I would never normally do that. And hey, |
| 1:27.8 | that might be my first and last time to Miami, but I'm really glad we did it. It's in |
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