“I wish I was chic-er!” Fearne on personal style and learning new skills
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
What’s been going on for you this week? What are you happy about, and what’s making you not so happy? Fearne’s here with more chat about what’s putting her and the Happy Place team in a good mood, and what’s feeling a bit rubbish ...and Fearne has really really been feeling rubbish this week...
This is a comforting space for all of us to explore what’s been on our minds. Want to join the chat? Send us a voicenote, DM, or comment on Instagram @happyplaceofficial!
In this chat, Fearne explores:
-Wandering around art galleries because it’s not just an elitist thing
-Learning new skills, namely: sign language
-What goes down in the Wednesday Waffle WhatsApp chat
-Whether it’s important for your wardrobe to have a signature style
-Norovirus (hope you’re not eating right now)
-Being a stricter parent when you’re (incredibly) ill
-Loads of scenarios where people are unnecessarily rude in public
-The great tea vs coffee debate
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| 0:00.0 | It's really important that we go out and live life and go and look at things and feel in awe of things. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm not from like some posh art family. |
| 0:09.3 | Sometimes I wish I was chic. |
| 0:10.9 | If I've ever even tried that, I feel like I'm doing fancy dress, like I've dressed as an adult. |
| 0:15.8 | There was no tolerance for any dicking about at that party. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm about to say potentially something so gross. |
| 0:22.6 | Do it! Okay. It was so, so bad. I miss my flight home. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi guys, welcome to Happy Place with me, Fern Cotton. I hope you are well. And if you're not, |
| 0:35.9 | maybe this will cheer you up or maybe this will give you |
| 0:37.5 | something to rant about because in these episodes, we talk about what's making us really happy |
| 0:44.0 | and what's not making us happy. It's all welcome. Happy place as a brand, as a podcast, as a festival, |
| 0:53.0 | all the projects we're working on has for me certainly never been |
| 0:56.3 | a place where we're full of sort of toxic happiness and we just have to plaster a smile on |
| 1:01.0 | and be happy all the time. We want to be a space where you can talk about it all, stuff that is |
| 1:05.5 | pissing you right off, stuff that's making you feel a bit sad and a bit down, as well as then turning focus to look at things that are making us feel really rather jolly. |
| 1:15.8 | Because life is all of it, isn't it? |
| 1:17.8 | It's the good bits, it's the bad bits, it's the grey, mundane bits in between. |
| 1:21.7 | It can never be one thing. |
| 1:23.1 | None of us, I don't think, unless you're maybe Eckhart Toll or a monk living in a cave somewhere, |
| 1:29.6 | just feel happy all the time. |
| 1:32.8 | Life's too complicated. |
| 1:34.1 | So this is a place where we look at it all. |
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