Lauren Cowell Beyond the Headlines: Motherhood, Campaigning and Entering Her F*ck It Era
Happy Mum
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re so excited to welcome Lauren Cowell for her first ever podcast interview!
After years of keeping a low profile while navigating public scrutiny, Lauren opens up to Gi about life after divorce, co-parenting, and how she handled the intense media attention surrounding her pregnancy with partner Simon Cowell.
Lauren also shares more about her involvement in the ‘Raise the Age’ campaign — and since recording this episode, Keir Starmer has announced plans for under-16s to be banned from social media by spring 2027 👏👏👏
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| 0:00.0 | Gosh, I just wish I had a little midweek drop of happy mum. |
| 0:09.9 | Guys, we have Life of a Midwife, this gorgeous miniseries that lands on a Thursday. |
| 0:15.9 | Subscribe, actually. Subscribe to the podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | And then it will be there waiting for you. |
| 0:19.8 | You probably have a little notification pop up and tell you that it's there. |
| 0:22.8 | Life of a midwife is just so beautiful. |
| 0:25.8 | I cannot listen to a single episode without just being so moved by it. |
| 0:31.4 | It's beautifully crafted. |
| 0:33.0 | I basically give you a little intro and I just make sure that you know what's going on. |
| 0:36.1 | But the accounts from the midwives are absolutely perfect. |
| 0:40.4 | I do think it's absolutely gorgeous and that you'll love listening to it. |
| 0:43.5 | So go find that wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of Happy Mum. |
| 0:52.4 | Today's guest is the incredible Lauren Cow. She's literally just left. |
| 0:58.9 | And I've got to say, there's not much out there that is from her. And you will understand why |
| 1:05.1 | during this chat. I guess we saw little snippets of Lauren in the documentary that it was actually Simon's |
| 1:11.7 | documentary called The Next Act that was out on December 10th last year. I know that because that's |
| 1:16.8 | the boy band's name, December 10th. She's a mum of two boys, Adam, who's 20, Eric, who's 12. She turns 50 |
| 1:24.3 | next year and she just feels like she's stepping into a new era of her life. |
| 1:30.1 | That is essentially a fuck-it era. |
| 1:33.3 | And for various reasons that we go into, that you might even be aware of. |
| 1:38.7 | Lauren has carried so much shame and guilt and judgment with her over the last 13 years. And I have to say that |
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