“Just try one new thing!” Fearne’s going boxing and to her cervical screening
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Fed up of constantly striving for ultimate happiness? Fearne’s dropping into your feed every week for some far more realistic chat about what’s making her feel great, and what’s making her feel rubbish.
This is a safe space for all of us to get stuff off our chests. No judgement here! Want to join the chat? Send us a voicenote, DM, or comment on Instagram @happyplaceofficial!
So, what’s putting us in our happy place this week... and what things really are not?
In this chat, Fearne covers:
-Why changing your mind and opinions is a good thing
-How to make cervical screenings less scary
-Why trying new things is important even if you can’t really be arsed
-Boxing being a fun outlet for a bit of anger
-Being ok with saying “I don’t know”
-Moving through extreme panic and anxiety
-Coming to terms with it not being warm in the UK for A WHILE yet
...plus Fearne gets an unexpected call from her son Rex!
Not seen the cervical screening Instagram post? Here it is!
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| 0:00.0 | It's okay for all of us to constantly change our minds. |
| 0:05.0 | And actually we should be changing our minds constantly. |
| 0:07.0 | You must have an opinion about the Beckhams. |
| 0:09.0 | What? I don't know the Beckham. |
| 0:11.0 | I would be an absolute knob, quite frankly. |
| 0:15.0 | Cervical smear tests are not fun. |
| 0:18.0 | We're sort of laughing through it and we got it wrong. Let me just answer my son's |
| 0:21.8 | phone call, guys. Small interruption. The life of a working mum. We're all just a bunch of humans. |
| 0:27.9 | They're not here to torture me, to terrorise me. I was releasing some inner rage. Our warm days |
| 0:33.5 | are still fucking months away. Okay. Hello everyone. Welcome to Happy Place. This is our safe space where we just get to talk about |
| 0:44.3 | all sorts of things. No judgment. No cares. Guess what? No fuck's given, actually. That's the |
| 0:50.5 | era that we're all in. So we're going to talk today about some stuff that's making me and team happy place, |
| 0:57.8 | happy, things that are putting us in our happy place and things that are very much not. So I want to start with a personal one. |
| 1:04.8 | And the first one for me is, well, it's kind of two things in one. It's first of all, trying new things, which I think as you get older, |
| 1:14.7 | not only becomes harder because you're less practiced at doing new stuff, but also you can't be asked. |
| 1:21.3 | I got in a real rut of just doing the same shit, like the same sort of exercise, the same sort of socialising, the same way |
| 1:30.8 | that I approach my working life. And this year, not that I'm doing New Year's resolutions, |
| 1:36.3 | but I was like, I should try one new thing. And my one new thing, I mean, I've only done it once, |
| 1:41.1 | so it's very new. It's boxing. |
| 1:46.2 | I'd never done boxing before. |
| 1:52.5 | And I was looking for something an activity I could do with my son Rex, who's just about to turn 13. |
| 1:56.0 | Because I do plenty of activities with my 10-year-old daughter. |
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