Episode 157: Laura Hamilton
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Laura Hamilton is a TV presenter best known for presenting A Place in the Sun.
She’s been renovating properties since the age of 19 and has just taken on her first overseas project in Majorca, which she’s filming, to create a guide to buying and renovating abroad.
Laura has two children, 11 year old Rocco and 10 year old Tahlia, who she co parents 50/50 with her ex.
Laura went back to work 3 weeks after having each of her children. She explained that was because she was scared someone else would jump into her shoes if she was away for longer.
Laura’s career to date is so jam-packed including being gunged on CITV, appearing in pantos, running the marathon, Dancing on Ice, and The Jump.
She credits her Dad and his difficult start in life before finding music and happiness, saying life is just your story, and you’ve got to enjoy writing it. Cheers to that, Laura!
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 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 years years so I spin a few plates myself. Being a |
| 0:22.6 | mother can be the most amazing thing and 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. |
| 0:35.3 | Hey greetings from backstage in Bristol. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm at the Beacon tonight and this is probably the closest to the wire I've ever recorded my intro-outro because I forgot. |
| 0:52.3 | Well, no, that's not quite true. Basically, normally what happens is Richard goes, you need to do your intro outro for the podcast and I say, yeah, and I get it done. Well, Richard, I didn't say anything. And so I don't know if I thought maybe I could get away with the fact I hadn't done it. Or if I just sort of thought I'd imagine I had. Anyway, he came to me now. |
| 1:12.1 | I'm on stage in about an hour and a bit and he said you need to do it now. But you know, |
| 1:17.6 | I'm very happy because I like talking to you. I hope you can hear me. I'm putting my rollers in. |
| 1:22.0 | So I'm wandering around my room. I'm in a very cute little dressing room here. It's a beautiful |
| 1:27.1 | venue. I like this Bristol Beacon. |
| 1:29.3 | We've played it before. |
| 1:31.3 | And the tour? |
| 1:34.3 | Well, by the time it's in the week, it'll be over. |
| 1:37.3 | It's been so much fun. |
| 1:39.3 | I could happily keep going. I love touring. |
| 1:43.3 | Yeah. Tonight I'm going to do yellow I love touring. Yeah. |
| 1:45.0 | Tonight I'm going to do yellow glitter if you're interested. |
| 1:48.0 | I've been doing a different colour glitter on my eyes every night. |
| 1:51.0 | But yeah, it's been gorgeous, gorgeous crowds. |
| 1:55.0 | Just a really happy tour. I love my band of being so brilliant, my crew being so brilliant. |
| 2:02.7 | Touch wood and all that. |
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