Fearne’s mates have joined the chat! Divorce, overwhelm, and festive drinking games
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
You’ve heard Fearne talking about them loads over the years... now it’s time to meet her best school mates! This episode is basically your girls’ Whatsapp chat come to life; Becky, Rebecca, Lucy, Ally, and Fran are here to talk through navigating Christmas when you’re co-parenting, sober, grieving, single, or just desperately trying to find a new place to put the bloody Elf on the Shelf.
Everyone’s wearing their sequinned outfits, and like any good girls get together, there are cheeky games that elicit stories about teenage club nights, muting the school mums chat, and sliding into Craig David’s DMs… Oh, and you lot have been sending in your festive dilemmas too!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place and today I've got something a little bit different for you. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm joined by Rebecca, Becky, Lucy, Ali and Fran, aka my best mates from school. |
| 0:17.2 | I always love Christmas, always have, but this year does feel a little bit of overwhelming. |
| 0:21.9 | It's been really hard year, so I'm also really focusing on sort of new beginning. |
| 0:28.2 | When you've been a family for so long, and you've always done it that way, and then now all of a |
| 0:32.4 | sudden you're like, oh, well, Christmas is still the same, but we're not anymore. It's really |
| 0:36.5 | easy to get swept up in the magic and, you know, the sodding elf on the shelf. And I think this is a safe space, guys. Do any of us want to be on the school WhatsApp groups? And who cares what someone else thinks? Actually, the majority of the time, when people judge you, it's because they're judging themselves. Single at Christmas, SOS. Get the mistletoe out. Okay. Never younger again. We are going older. |
| 0:57.3 | Yes. |
| 0:57.8 | Matured. Christmas, S-O-S. Get the mistletoe out. |
| 0:55.6 | Never younger again. |
| 0:56.9 | We are going older. |
| 0:58.1 | Yes, mature. |
| 0:59.3 | Mature. |
| 1:00.6 | Look after me. |
| 1:01.1 | Shit together. |
| 1:03.2 | No matter what we're doing in our lives, |
| 1:06.5 | we kind of have evolved into like middle-aged. |
| 1:07.3 | Together. |
| 1:12.7 | Like breaking news, glitter, nail polish is allowed from the 10th of December. Do you know? |
| 1:18.5 | Do you know what? This was one of those ideas that came from me just having a conversation with a couple of members of the Happy Place team. We were just having like a really nice general chat about |
| 1:23.4 | friendships and I was saying how all of my girlfriends are just, they're always full of advice. |
| 1:29.1 | We're on a WhatsApp group together and we're all going through stuff like everybody is. |
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