S10, Ep6: CMAT, singer songwriter

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week, Grace is joined by a woman who has described herself as the unwashed ITV version of Taylor Swift – CMAT. With her third album, Euro-Country, out now, a summer calendar packed full of festivals and a tour on the horizon, what is this stunning, Irish superstar eating to fuel the ride? Warning: this episode contains descriptions of drug use and disordered eating

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:07.6	I'm Grace Dent and this is comfort eating from The Guardian.
0:13.6	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:19.5	Because even as a restaurant critic,
0:21.8	I believe the food that matters most
0:24.1	is often that snack you cobble together
0:26.8	when you're curled upon the sofa.
0:29.3	Each week, I ask my guest to lift the lid
0:32.6	on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
0:36.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person
0:38.8	from what they eat behind closed on.
0:44.5	Hello friends. Now you find me at the mirror on the very sunniest of days out there today.
0:54.1	Now something I have seen a lot of recently, which is
0:56.8	making me feel very ancient, is the 20-year-old women around Hackney Central, who are stridently not
1:04.1	shaving their armpits these days. It is making me feel very bourgeois and petty for getting that double blade at mine every few days,
1:13.5	which I have been doing since 1983. Over the last week or so, I've been stopping shaving mine.
1:20.9	Oh yes, I am down with the kids too. Then yesterday, with my comfort eating guest sitting
1:27.3	right in front of me and my unshaven armpits greeting them, a beacon of my empowerment, I realised I really, really did not like it.
1:38.0	Why not? I think I've internalised the male gaze. I really did hope to look like a duelie panger on, but instead, I just look like a truck driver. Now, at my particular vintage, I have decided it's probably best to stick to what you know. No pits. I'm not going to grow my moustache either. And those wispy long
2:02.6	hairs I've got behind my knees, they are coming out. My motto is be your own woman. Do what
2:09.7	feels right. I think this is a motto probably shared by my guest today. The Irish singer and
2:17.0	songwriter C-Matt, Ki Irish singer and songwriter, C-MAT.
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