Leanne Quigley on filming The Traitors and the life-changing moment that followed (2/2)
Happy Mum Happy Baby
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Leanne Quigley is back for part two of her extraordinary conversation - if you haven't already heard part 1 you can listen here.
In this episode, Leanne opens up to Gi about her experience on The Traitors, including the emotional challenge of leaving her two young boys while filming.
She also reflects on the life-changing moment after filming when her fiancée, Sophie, was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Happy Mum, Happy Baby, the podcast. This is part two of Leanne Quigley's |
| 0:10.6 | story. I wanted to give it the space it deserves. So you can listen to this part now. You can |
| 0:15.1 | listen to part one on Tuesday if you've missed that. But I wanted to really let Leanne's story sit |
| 0:20.2 | with you because she has so much to share |
| 0:22.6 | and I didn't want to just edit bits out to make it a nice little pocket size episode. So I wanted |
| 0:27.9 | to give you it in full. But we've done that in two parts. You can still, you know, listen to it |
| 0:31.6 | as you wish. But now you get the full story. Here we go. |
| 0:42.7 | I mean, it must blow your mind that, you know, three years now. |
| 0:43.2 | I know. |
| 0:45.4 | I just can't believe it. |
| 0:47.1 | Every milestone I'm obsessed with. |
| 0:47.7 | Really? |
| 0:48.7 | Every milestone. |
| 0:51.2 | They're starting to talk now, so this is incredible. |
| 0:55.1 | And I think what we were saying before about having babies for a really long time and I had them for an extra three or four months it felt like there's just they were just |
| 1:00.6 | babies all the time for ages and suddenly I've got toddlers now and they're learning to talk and |
| 1:07.5 | they're so funny and they've become loving they wasn't loving for a while and now they're just super loving they say love to talk and they're so funny and they've become loving. They wasn't loving for a while. |
| 1:11.8 | And now they're just super loving. |
| 1:13.4 | They say love you, mummy. |
| 1:14.8 | And it's just the most incredible feeling that I could just ever, ever feel. |
| 1:19.2 | So this is really truly like my favourite time of parenting for sure. |
| 1:23.7 | And that protective side of view, how are you feeling about things like nursery, like school, |
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