Episode 158: Ranvir Singh
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Ranvir Singh is a TV news presenter on Good Morning Britain, who I met on the set of ‘Lorraine’ about a year ago - and I’ve been wanting to talk to her in more depth ever since.
Ranvir is a single parent to her 13 year old son Tushaan.
She grew up in a very religious Sikh household, having lost her Dad when she was only 9.
She was the first girl in her family to go to University, and despite pressure to get married as soon as she left Uni, her laser beam focus on her career path remained.
Ranvir and I shed some tears as she described the few minutes she would need to take on the driveway after work, before putting her key in the door. And towards the end of our chat, she shared some very emotional advice for any listener who feels themselves overwhelmed, and in that same position now.
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 | 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, |
| 0:20.2 | so I spin a few plates myself. |
| 0:21.6 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:24.6 | I can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. |
| 0:27.6 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:33.6 | Hello. I think I'm slightly in trouble, with Richard. Maybe not, but it is |
| 0:41.3 | Sunday evening at 7 o'clock, and this is the second week running when I've been really late |
| 0:47.5 | with talking to you in time for him to the podcast edit edit and he's really kind and lets me do it really late but |
| 1:01.6 | this is a bit too late and it's father's day so i definitely feel a little bit of a numpy and um |
| 1:10.6 | richard if you're listening i'm sorry uh it's because we finished the tour on |
| 1:15.7 | Thursday i got really early on friday morning to do school stuff was so tired like criminally tired |
| 1:23.6 | and then um did another early start yesterday was saturday kitchen i know these are all |
| 1:30.6 | excuses aren't they uh i should definitely have spoken to you earlier anyway never mind all that |
| 1:34.9 | oh god it's boiling in here our house is really stuffy so i'm walking around the kids have |
| 1:39.2 | left things on that they shouldn't. I hope you're good. |
| 1:45.4 | The UK tour has finished. |
| 1:47.5 | It finished on Thursday night at the Royal Albert Hall. |
| 1:50.5 | Biggest gig of my life, biggest solo gig of my life. |
| 1:54.6 | Pretty cool, actually. |
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