Fearne Cotton

Bryony Gordon's Mad World

The Telegraph

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Fearne Cotton's voice is instantly recognisable, whether from TV or the radio waves, or now on her Happy Place podcast. Like Bryony, she's dedicated her recent career to continuing the conversation around mental health - and through that work, the pair have become firm friends.

Fearne joins Bryony on Mad World to talk about the importance of setting yourself boundaries, why we have to consider the link between mental and physical health, and why sometimes we shouldn't be so quick to judge online trolls. Plus, listen out for Fearne's assessment of Bryony's Dua Lipa impression...

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0:00.0	The Telegraph.
0:07.7	The Telegraph.
0:09.0	The Telegraph.
0:10.6	Podcasts.
0:12.3	If I said to you, I can't do this, Briany, or I can't meet up when we said we were going to,
0:22.1	I know it's a given. There would be no resentment because of your knowledge about mental health.
0:27.6	You would be like, this is cool.
0:28.8	But I know there are some people in my life where the reaction I couldn't necessarily predict what it would be.
0:35.0	And that still scares me.
0:41.3	Yeah. predict what it would be and that still scares me. My guest today is one of my closest friends.
0:44.5	So this feels a little bit like I've just recorded a catch-up.
0:48.0	And I kind of hope that's what it sounds like to listen to too.
0:51.1	She's been on our TV screens for what feels like forever. She's hosted Top of the Pops,
0:56.5	children's TV and all sorts in between. But now she like me spends her time trying to amplify
1:02.2	the public conversation around mental health with her fantastic, happy place podcast.
1:08.3	Please welcome the fabulous Fern Cotton. And just a warning, there's a little bit of
1:13.6	colourful language in this episode. I am thrilled to have a returnee to Mad World. It's Fern Cotton.
1:26.7	Oh, lucky, lucky me. How are you, my love? I'm, I'm supposed to be
1:31.0	asking you that question. I know, sorry, God, I've ruined your whole gimmick, bloody hell.
1:35.5	It's not a gimmick, Fern. Sorry, I've ruined your structure. It's a really heartfelt device
1:40.8	to open up deep meaningful conversation. We always have deep meaningful conversation.
1:46.7	We do. I'm okay. Do you know what? I'm not going to lie because I don't want guests to make
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