Episode 63: Lisa Eldridge
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Lisa Eldridge is a make up artist with her own brand, who has also appeared on TV in ‘10 Years Younger - the Challenge’ and in a documentary series which I adored, called ‘Makeup: A Glamorous History’ about the manufacture, use and politics of makeup. She grew up in New Zealand and then Liverpool and was at the top of her career, flying around the world and doing fashion shows and Vogue covers when she became pregnant and had her son. We talked about how Lisa managed to enjoy being a mum to the full, and then reignite her career once her son was a teenager She also told me how her son and stepson are of similar ages and very much like brothers.
I share Lisa’s passion for makeup so it was fascinating for me to hear about how her love affair began with her mum’s old Mary Quant collection, how she started collecting her own vintage cosmetics with a box of Biba makeup she bought for a fiver, and has gone on to acquire some incredibly personal items including Audrey Hepburn’s lipstick holder.
And of course, no conversation with Lisa would be complete without hearing about the co-star of her you tube videos, Ted the talking cat, who acts as her fashion adviser and stylist!
Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis Bextor,
produced by Claire Jones, and post-production is 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 | to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, |
| 0:20.4 | 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, how's it going? |
| 0:38.3 | I seem to be liking living life on the edge at the moment and I keep picking fairly risky times to record my hello to you. |
| 0:47.3 | Because at the moment, Richard's out, it's Saturday afternoon, the kids are all over the place the chances that we're |
| 0:56.1 | getting through this without anyone spotting that I've gone to a quiet corner as |
| 1:00.1 | Briddie Slim but hopefully oh okay um Mickey's dressed as Peter Pan oh Mickey's gone |
| 1:09.5 | right on under that sorry I'm just getting a ball from under a table. |
| 1:13.5 | For supper, we're going to have corn chowder tonight. |
| 1:17.1 | Okay. |
| 1:19.2 | In a minute. |
| 1:21.2 | Yeah, so, how's your week been? |
| 1:23.8 | I've been away, actually, for this week. |
| 1:25.5 | I went to record a lot of my album. |
| 1:30.3 | It's not quite finished, but we've done absolutely tons. So we spent nine days in the studio in total recording 13 songs, |
| 1:35.3 | which is a lot of work. |
| 1:37.3 | So it's been pretty intense but really brilliant. |
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