Episode 81: Davina McCall
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Davina McCall has been an energetic and enthusiatic presence on our TV screens for decades. As a teenager I loved watching her dating show Streetmate, and God's Gift which I adored. Then I was glued to the screen as she fronted Big Brother for 11 series between 2000 and 2010, and more recently she's presented ITV's emotional series Long Lost Family and of course the pure fun show The Masked Singer, which I did a couple of years ago and it is back again this month. Davina and I spoke in November when I was just back from Australia so I might have been a *little* woolly but hopefully not too bad. We talked about her difficult start in life when her mum left home, but she expalined how she had two wonderful female role models in her life - her grandmother, Pippy, and her stepmum, Gabby. She told me about the joy of having three older children, two of whom have left home, but explained you still have to be available at the drop of a hat, when they need you - something I found strangely comforting. We also spoke about her personal passion project - educating people about the menopause, which has seen her present two documentaries, and, along with Dr Naomi Potter, write a book called Menopausing, which has certainly helped take away any ignorance and fear I have about the subject. Finally we plotted to do something outrageous together one of these days... just to shock you, and our children! So, watch this space.
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 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. |
| 0:14.0 | 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. |
| 0:22.5 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:25.0 | but can also be hard to find time for yourself |
| 0:27.0 | and your own ambitions. |
| 0:28.4 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:32.1 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:36.1 | Well, hello. Happy New Year. Here we are on the other side of Christmas and all that stuff. |
| 0:42.6 | Oh, when did we last speak? Was it November? Beginning December, that's right. How have you been? How was everything? |
| 0:49.8 | It's funny because usually after indulging over Christmas, I get to this bit of the year and I'm like, yeah, I feel like being healthy, but this time I'm just like, I could have happily kept going with the cheese and the wine and all that. |
| 1:01.7 | I was really quite into it all. |
| 1:04.3 | But no, January's here, kids are going back to school tomorrow, trying to get the house in order. It's a slow process. |
| 1:13.6 | It's been very busy. It's been really nice, actually. It's been pretty mellow. We had everybody |
| 1:18.9 | over to ours for Christmas. We host it. So the day went from sort of 15 during the day to an extra |
| 1:25.0 | few in the evening and then just had a lot of family over here |
| 1:28.9 | I popped off to Edinburgh to take part in their hogany New Year's Eve celebrations last week |
| 1:35.5 | did a gig there which was really fun it was outdoors but I didn't get too cold so that's good and then |
| 1:40.5 | new year's Eve stayed in which I I love. And now back to work. |
| 1:46.0 | But it's all kind of nice things. |
| 1:47.2 | I'm getting the new album sorted out. |
| 1:48.8 | I've got to do the artwork and the video for the new single this month. |
| 1:52.2 | And, yeah, just kind of get on with stuff, which includes more podcast episodes. |
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