Sophie Ellis-Bextor: five c-sections, Murder on the Dance Floor, and the power of Perimenopop
Happy Mum Happy Baby
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The queen of disco is in the house!
Pop icon and mother of five Sophie Ellis-Bextor joins Giovanna to chat motherhood, music, and everything in between.
She tells Gi about falling pregnant with her son just 6 weeks into a new relationship, and shares her experiences with pre-eclampsia and caring for babies who battled sepsis and meningitis.
Sophie's brilliant new album Perimenopop is out now!
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| 0:00.0 | Just press record. |
| 0:01.5 | Now it's gone by and it's really good to catch up. |
| 0:05.9 | I guess we should actually start recording now. |
| 0:08.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:08.8 | Let's make it formal. |
| 0:09.6 | Okay, right. |
| 0:10.3 | I'll do an introduction. |
| 0:11.5 | Go on then. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of Happy Mum, Happy Baby, the podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | Today's guest is a singer-songwriter who has been in the game for decades, |
| 0:24.2 | which makes you sound really old. |
| 0:25.7 | Because you've just started really young. |
| 0:28.3 | She is a podcast host. |
| 0:30.5 | I love her podcast spinning plates. |
| 0:32.0 | She's an author. |
| 0:33.8 | She is the mother of five boys and the queen of the dance floor. Wow. Sophia has pexter. That's cool. I like that. Thank you. You are the queen of the disco. I'm happy to... Well, if that crown's going, I'll take it. I'll wrestle it off. It's on a summer. Whoever really holds the crown. I love it. I mean, I love the fact that your podcast is spinning plates. |
| 0:55.2 | And to the outsider, you are someone who has spun those plates really, really well. |
| 0:59.8 | And it doesn't seem like you just do a really good juggle. |
| 1:03.9 | But actually, the podcast is about the fact that we are spinning so many plates and no one has the answers. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah, and about actually where I've really struggled with that. |
| 1:11.9 | And I don't know if it's the same for you with your podcast, |
| 1:14.7 | but I started it not really knowing exactly what I was going to get out of it. |
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