Episode 99: Kate Ferdinand
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Kate Ferdinand is a TV personality and author who is married to footballer Rio Ferdinand. Kate was best known on TV for appearing on Towie and now has a successful podcast called Blended. 1 in 4 families in Britain are now blended and Kate is stepmum to Rio's 3 older children Lorenz, Tate and Tia. She loves them as her own children. She and Rio also have a toddler called Cree and she is expecting a new baby next month. So soon she'll have five children, just like me!
Kate talked to me about her two books. How to Build a Family, in which she shares tips about being a step parent. And a children's book called The Family Tree about a blended family but from a child's point of view.
She talked to me very candidly about how she feels that she and Rio saved each other when they met. And having grown up in a blended family myself, I was genuinely moved by the love she so clearly has for their older children.
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 Lysbexter 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. |
| 0:22.3 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:24.9 | but can also be hard to find time for yourself |
| 0:26.8 | and your own ambitions. |
| 0:28.3 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello, how are you doing? |
| 0:39.4 | I'm just speaking to you from my garden. |
| 0:41.8 | It's a lovely evening. |
| 0:45.3 | But, well, it's a bit frustrating. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm not for home for very long. |
| 0:49.0 | I landed back from Oslo today. |
| 0:51.6 | I did a festival there in Norway called Over Oslo. Possibly one of the |
| 0:56.5 | most beautiful festivals I've ever done. Very, very pretty. Up on, it's also a ski slope in |
| 1:03.1 | Oslo just outside the city centre, looking down over the city, pine trees on either side, |
| 1:09.2 | the backstage sloped down to a beautiful lake where we all went swimming. It's pretty gorgeous actually. Can you play on me outside? Yes, I'm going to play Mickey. Outside? Yes, outside, yeah, good idea. And then we're home now. I just unpacked one bags, packed up a load of other bags. And then tonight at 10pm, I'm going on the tour bus. I'm saying that quietly because of Mickey. Here's you're going to come with me. And I'm going to Arl of White |
| 1:31.2 | Festival playing there tomorrow, Cardiff Pride on Saturday and Exeter Foodie Festival on Sunday and home |
| 1:38.4 | at the beginning of next week, some of the few days. You want to come, Mick? You're coming. You're coming, okay. |
| 1:45.9 | I'm coming to Italy. Oh yeah, we're definitely going to go to Italy. That's Jesse bouncing. |
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