IN CONVERSATION: Dolly Alderton

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4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Happy Thursday, Shameless pals! Today, we bring you the electric Dolly Alderton. Dolly is a British columnist, author and podcaster, best known as the co-host of the widely popular current affairs podcast, The High Low. She is also the author of the bestselling memoir, Everything I Know About Love, but is now trying her hand at fiction, on the cusp of releasing her very first novel, Ghosts. In this chat, Dolly explains what it's like to have half a million people know about her life - both the good parts and the ugly - in her twenties, and why she's so determined to protect her private life in her thirties. If you’d like more from Dolly, grab her debut novel, Ghosts, here. Enjoyed this chat? Well, we think you’ll also love our interview with Dolly's podcast co-host, Pandora Sykes. Thank you so much to today’s sponsor, Somersby Sparkling Selections. Head here to check it out. If this is your first time checking us out (hey, you), we are an independent media company that is dedicated to telling young women’s stories. The best way to support Shameless is to click ‘Subscribe’ on Apple Podcasts or ‘Follow’ on your Spotify app, and to tell your mates about us. We will reward such good behaviour with a puppy! Not everything in this paragraph is true! But wait! There’s more! Grab a copy of the book we co-wrote, The Space Between Search our back catalogue of In Conversation interviews Follow Shameless on Instagram Join our book club Facebook Group Subscribe to the weekly Shameless recommendations newsletter We cherish your feedback on the show, and would bloody love to hear your wonderful voices. If you’d like to weigh in on an episode - whether it be a segment in a Monday episode, an In Conversation guest, or this month’s book club pick, we’d love for you to call our Shameless Hotline. You miiiiight just be featured on an episode. Thanks so much for lending us your ears for this episode! Have a great day! Stay hydrated! This episode was produced by Annabelle Lee for Shameless Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I turned 35 last week and something that has been so freeing for me is I stopped
0:06.3	dating at the end of my 20s for a year and a bit and then I started dating again
0:10.7	when I was thirsty with the sole goal of finding a life partner and someone
0:14.2	to have children.
0:15.2	Yeah right.
0:16.2	And there were like relationships I had at the very beginning of my 30s where we didn't see
0:20.1	it through because I said to the person I'm looking for something serious and they said well I'm not and the
0:26.4	worst thing would be for us to go out for a couple of years and then you be 35 and single without a baby
0:30.4	and it was kind of my biggest fear and like it's happened everything I didn't want to happen has happened and I'm so happy. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hello and welcome to this very special in conversation episode of
1:08.4	Shameless. Today we are joined by one of the UK's most prominent authors, Dolly Alderton.
1:15.0	Some of you might be thinking, but wait, you guys have already interviewed Dolly,
1:18.5	and you'd be right.
1:19.5	Back in 2020, in the depths of lockdown,
1:21.8	we spoke to Dolly over Zoom about her life and career
1:24.8	but given how much we adore her and given how highly requested she was by you guys
1:29.7	we thought why not make her the first person to ever return to shameless in conversation?
1:35.2	But this is an in conversation with a twist. Of course, Mich asked Dolly about what life has been like
1:40.3	in the three years since we last spoke but given she's the ultimate agony
1:44.2	aunt or sister we also wanted to pick her brain on your big life dilemmas we did a
1:49.8	call out and ask you what you needed advice on and boy did you deliver. So this isn't just an interview
1:55.6	episode with Dolly. It's an episode where we open the shameless mailbag and put that marvelous
2:00.6	mind of hers to work. This is a big-hearted episode full of tears and
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