Episode 178: Fran Cutler
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Fran Cutler is famous for organising wild parties attended by A-listers. Things really took off in the 90s when she started organising parties for Oasis albums with Meg Matthews.
She’s a self-confessed technophobe and she’s using this fallow Glastonbury year, to write a memoir which she promises will be both salacious and funny.
She brought up her daughter Mercy on her own, after the father left 3 months into her pregnancy. She resolved at that moment to work twice as hard as anyone else to support her daughter who she is super close to, along with her mum, sister and nieces.
Fran told me about her dubious claim to fame: projectile vomitting! And she shared her tips for getting rid of problematic party guests. Let’s I hope I never prove to be one of them!
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 L'Exta 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. |
| 0:40.1 | You know what, if you say one thing about me you can say that I get around. Greetings from New York. How you doing? |
| 0:45.5 | I last boat you when I was in San Francisco. Since then I've been to the Alps and I've been home and now today I've just flown to New York. |
| 0:58.9 | I left this morning. It's Saturday morning. I said I left. Got here actually Saturday morning |
| 1:06.4 | American time and found myself in a very, very pretty New York and not even cold the snow here |
| 1:14.5 | but it's all cleared in the streets it's just snow in Central Park and oh do you know it's really |
| 1:19.8 | cute I'm just walking past where I did the tonight show with a Jimmy Fallon show that is adorable |
| 1:26.4 | I didn't actually actually realize I was about to walk past that. |
| 1:29.5 | Memories. I'm here for a little thing tonight and then I fly home tomorrow, back to work. |
| 1:36.5 | And then I do actually have, oh, it's a very New York sound, isn't it? Very Manhattan. |
| 1:43.3 | I actually have a whole week where I sleep in my own |
| 1:47.0 | every night for a week. So nice. Can't wait. Anyway, no mind about me. How are you? Has everything |
| 1:53.6 | been with you? Hope it's all been good. Hope it's been good about the fact that spring is on its way. |
| 1:58.8 | It's time, isn't it? I need a little bit of that. And this week's guest, oh, so much fun. |
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