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IN CONVERSATION: Dolly Alderton

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Shameless Media

Society & Culture

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Why hello, everyone! Today, we are joined by one of the UK’s most prominent authors, Dolly Alderton. Some of you might be thinking, but wait! You guys have already interviewed Dolly! And you’d be right. Back in 2020, in the depths of lockdown, we spoke to Dolly over Zoom about her life and career. But, given how much we adore her, and given how she was so highly requested by you guys, we thought: why not make her the first person to ever return to Shameless In Conversation? But this is an In Conversation episode with a twist: Of course, Mich asked Dolly about what life has been like in the three years since we last spoke, but given she’s the ultimate Agony Aunt (or sister), we also wanted to pick her brain on your big life dilemmas. We did a callout and asked you what you needed Dolly’s advice on, so today, we opened the Shameless Mailbag and put Dolly’s marvelous mind to work. To pre-order Dolly’s new book, Good Material, head here. This episode was audio produced by Annabelle Lee. Big thanks to Webjet for making this episode possible. Head online to Webjet to book your next getaway. Want to support our show? We are sending air kisses, air tea, and air hugs (too far?) to anyone who clicks ‘follow’ on Apple and Spotify. (Bonus hugs for anyone who leaves a five-star review, too!)  Still not enough? Well! Our hearts! See below for everything else. Click here to subscribe to ShameMore: http://apple.co/shamelesspod Subscribe to the weekly ‘ASK SHAMELESS’ newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gFbYLT  Join our book club: https://www.instagram.com/theshamelessbookclub/  Check out our website: https://shamelessmediaco.com/ Write to the Shameless Mailbag: Email hello@shamelessmediaco.com Thanks for listening! We are very big fans of yours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:21.6

It's basically like having a best friend and a dating coach in your pocket.

0:25.5

Guys, Bumble is back and better than ever.

0:27.7

Thank you so much to Bumble for making this episode of Shameless Possible.

0:31.6

I turned 35 last week and something that has been so freeing for me is I stopped dating at the end of my 20s for a year and a bit.

0:40.7

And then I started dating again when I was Thursday with the sole goal of finding a life partner and sometimes have children with.

0:46.1

Yeah, right.

0:46.9

And there were like relationships I had at the very beginning of my 30s where we didn't see it through because I said to the person,

0:56.2

I'm looking for something serious. And they said, well, I'm not

0:57.4

and the worst thing would be for us to go out for a couple of years

0:59.6

and then you'd be 35 and single without a baby.

1:02.2

And it was kind of my biggest fear

1:03.5

and like it's happened.

1:05.4

Everything I didn't want to happen has happened.

1:07.6

And I'm so happy.

1:46.0

Oh, who, who, who, who, who, has happened. And I'm so happy. Hello and welcome to this very special in conversation episode of Shameless. Today we are joined by one of the UK's most prominent authors, Dolly Alderton. Some of you might be thinking, but wait, you guys have already interviewed Dolly.

1:49.0

And you'd be right. Back in 2020, in the depths of lockdown, we spoke to Dolly over Zoom about her life and career.

1:56.0

But given how much we adore her and given how highly requested she was by you guys, we thought,

2:02.2

why not make her the first person to ever return to shameless in conversation?

2:06.6

But this is an in conversation with a twist.

2:08.9

Of course, Mish asked Dolly about what life has been like in the three years since we last spoke.

2:13.9

But given she's the ultimate agony aunt or sister, we also wanted to pick her brain

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