Episode 174: Kelly Rutherford
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Kelly Rutherford is an American actress probably best known for her starring role in 7 series of Gossip Girl (2007-2012).
Kelly's instagram is the most intentional and curated grid I have ever seen, with beautiful quotes interspersed with stylish selfies, many of which are taken in an elevator. It’s very beautiful and peaceful.
Kelly has a son Hermes aged 19 and a daughter Helena aged 16, who were subject to a custody battle which their father won. This meant that they have grown up mostly in Monaco where he lives, and where Kelly has therefore spent most of her time, so as to be able to see the children.
Kelly has a calm and philosphical air, and we talked about how the greatest gift you can give your children is to be happy. She also said that nothing matters more to her than the love of her children.
We also talked about our shared joy of shopping in vintage clothes shops... a quick route to happiness for us both.
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 Zbexter 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 all work. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm a singer and I've released eight albums in between having my five sons, aged between seven years |
| 0:20.0 | old and nearly 22, |
| 0:21.6 | so I spin a few plates myself. |
| 0:23.6 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:26.6 | but it can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. |
| 0:30.6 | I want to be a little bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:34.6 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:41.3 | I know it's really frequent that I start off the podcast introduction with a little note about the weather. But A, and British, it's literally |
| 0:50.3 | unprogrammed to do that. And B, i often speak to you on my way home from school because it's |
| 0:59.7 | the bit of the day where i can kind of have a couple of seconds to myself and i often think about |
| 1:04.5 | things as i walk home and i think ah i would like to speak to you and obviously while i speak to you |
| 1:10.5 | i am experiencing the weather. |
| 1:14.0 | Today I'm experiencing weather I'm not into is this is part report, part complaint. |
| 1:20.1 | It's cold. |
| 1:22.4 | It's wet. |
| 1:25.0 | It's windy. |
| 1:33.2 | None of these things are good things. And I had to choose quickly this morning between a waterproof coat or a warm coat. My warm coat isn't waterproof. And I went for |
| 1:40.1 | the waterproof. So now I'm obviously freezing. So yeah, just not really feeling that. |
| 1:47.4 | Yes, I do appreciate that all things considered. This is not a bad thing to be complaining |
| 1:53.7 | about, as in I should just get out my own with it, but I just want to get out my system |
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