Episode 61: Jools Oliver
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jools Oliver may be well-known for being married to chef Jamie Oliver but what I wanted to talk to her most about, was being a fellow ‘mum-of-five’. We talked about how we both coped with the eponymous ‘spinning plates’ of raising our children alongside our work, about how we both ended up turning the cameras on our otherwise private families during lockdown, and how we’re always trying to talk ourselves out of having another baby!
Alongside her family life, Jools designs the 1970s-inspired Little Bird children’s clothes range which you will see as lot of in our house!
During our talk, Jools also shared her painful experience of multiple miscarriages and explained the aftercare support that she believes women going through this should receive.
Towards the end of our talk I heard about her close relationship with her wonderful mum. Also the poignant story of her dear dad who suffered a stroke when Jools was seven years old, and of their treasured café visits after school.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | 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. |
| 0:21.6 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, but 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. |
| 0:34.6 | Hey, it's me and it's you. How are you? What's been going on since I last spoke to you, |
| 0:45.1 | which would have been about, oh, is it five weeks ago, six weeks ago? Yes, I have been travelling all around the country, actually, since then. I went on tour |
| 0:57.4 | during pretty much all of March, and it was amazing. And if you were there, thank you. I adored it. |
| 1:06.6 | I always love doing my tours, and I swear, since the very first tour I ever did they're kind of always |
| 1:12.8 | quite a special event I don't go on tour every year I do gigs every year but I don't go on tour every year |
| 1:17.9 | and this tour was the first one in three years and it just felt really special and I think that was |
| 1:24.7 | partly as well down to the fact that I've never done a tour that's as personal |
| 1:27.8 | as the one I just did, because ordinarily you release an album and then you tour that album, |
| 1:33.9 | and it's kind of part of the album cycle. But this tour existed coming out of what happened |
| 1:40.3 | during lockdown and the kitchen discos. So I wasn't promoting anything. It was just the other half of a promise that Richard and I made to ourselves when the |
| 1:49.0 | discos were happening that we thought wouldn't be amazing to do this in real life with real people |
| 1:53.0 | all under one roof, having a disco together. |
| 1:56.0 | So being on stage and bringing a set around that literally recreated my home was really quite bizarre, |
| 2:04.2 | but really glorious. |
| 2:06.1 | And everybody came with pure excitement and positivity and joy. |
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