Episode 79: Kimberley Walsh
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
I so loved meeting up with Kimberley Walsh this month. I was signed to the same label as girls aloud when I started my solo career, so we've known each other for over 20 years. It was great to compare notes on those days, our mutual love of singing around the house, of being mums of multiple boys, and so much more.
We met at Kimberley's house, just two days after the Primrose Ball, held to celebrate the life of her band mate and great friend Sarah Harding who died of breast cancer just over a year ago. While Kimberley felt emotionally drained, she was proud that the event had raised enough money to cover Sarah's doctor's research project, which had been Sarah's wish.
Kimberley was honest in saying that she is still in a very painful stage of grief. She shared how Sarah's diagnosis came at the same time that Kimberley found out she was pregnant with her third son, and how she couldn't bear to share that news with Sarah for quite a while, knowing that Sarah wouldn't have a chance to become a mum herself.
We also talked about Kimberley's childhood in Bradford, how her mum was so hard-working when money was extremely tight and how Kimberley credits her mum with passing on a strong work ethic to her. Her love of performing started back then too and remains a driving force in her life - she has starred in many West End musicals, was on Strictly Come Dancing the year before I was, and is currently enjoying regularly presenting Morning Live from Manchester.
I loved hearing about her three boys and her stepdaughter Chloe who she adores and who's just moved in with them while on an internship in London, much to the delight of the boys, dad Justin and Kimberley,
Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis Bextor, it is 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 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, so I spin a few plates myself. Being a mother |
| 0:22.8 | can be the most amazing thing. It can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. |
| 0:28.2 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:35.2 | Hello darlings and if you're listening to this on the day of publication, then happy Halloween. |
| 0:43.4 | We have just, well, I'm in the last bit of half-term. I'm speaking to you from the past. It is Thursday. |
| 0:52.2 | And Richard has been away on tour for nearly two weeks, |
| 0:55.3 | and I didn't really make any plans for half-term. |
| 0:58.5 | And so I decided just to invite, well, let the kids have as many different friends over as possible. |
| 1:05.1 | I've sort of been running an unofficial hotel. |
| 1:07.9 | Tonight we've got another two kids coming for a sleepover, |
| 1:10.4 | which will bring the |
| 1:11.1 | grand total of people I've had since Saturday to 17, 17 different people who have stayed the |
| 1:18.7 | night in my house since Saturday night. It's actually been pretty fun, but also a little bit bonkers |
| 1:23.7 | at times. And today I've been really gentle with myself, because I was doing all the cooking and all that stuff. And I was like, right, today is just going to be easy route, you know, soup for lunch, that kind of thing. It's been good. And tomorrow I'm going to see the feeling at Shepa's Bush Empire, which I'm looking forward to, because I think the tour sounds like it's been going really well, so I can't wait wait to see that and then I'm getting ready for my big trip I leave to go to Australia next week for |
| 1:50.1 | fortnight so that's quite a big deal oh we've also got a birthday next week my fourth boy Jess |
| 1:55.3 | he will be seven on Thursday which reminds me I really must update the beginning of this podcast because I think |
| 2:02.4 | I still say I have children aged between 1 and 16, which is so not true anymore. |
| 2:08.6 | I'm age between 3 and 18. Get it right. Anyway, it's actually been a beautiful day, again, 19 degrees |
| 2:16.0 | or something strange. I mean mean it's actually been really |
| 2:20.0 | lovely but it does feel kind of different for october and um so we've been lots of playing in the |
| 2:26.8 | garden lots playing in the park and oh i saw a few podcast people this week i saw like oh again a |
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