Sue Cleaver on maintaining perspective, life's unexpected moments and embracing the unknown
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Joining us this week is an esteemed actress whose career across stage and screen has seen her become a staple for millions of viewers around the country - it’s the amazing Sue Cleaver!
Ahead of returning to the stage in the new Sister Act musical next year, Sue joins us for a chat about how she looked to maintain a sense of anonymity while on the UK’s biggest soaps, how she met her biological mother entirely by chance and what it’s really like in the I’m A Celebrity... jungle.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of White Wine Question Time. |
| 0:10.0 | Well I could either sit here and be terrified like I was with the jungle, or I can just choose to ignore that voice and go, |
| 0:20.0 | thanks very much, yeah, great, I'll do that. |
| 0:23.0 | She's the double of my wife, when my wife was like 23, |
| 0:26.4 | which is what I was at the time. |
| 0:28.2 | I was indeed his wife's daughter. |
| 0:31.4 | I literally went to see my friend in this performance and sat there thinking, |
| 0:37.0 | oh my lord, this is atrocious. This is really atrocious. I could do this. So can you imagine the phone call back to my parents? |
| 0:45.8 | Hi, coming home, I'm going to be an actor. Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time the |
| 0:56.6 | podcast that asks its guests three thought-provoking questions over three |
| 1:00.3 | glasses of wine and my guest this week has been a familiar face in our |
| 1:04.3 | living rooms for almost a quarter of a century now as part of the Coronation Street |
| 1:08.6 | family. And yet despite feeling like a friend of the family we knew relatively little about her until she stepped off the |
| 1:14.9 | cobbles and into the jungle last year and started opening up around the campfire, putting jaws on the floor, |
| 1:20.9 | as she explained the twists and turns of her own life story. the She started to struggle with a sense of attachment disorder, which is really common amongst adopted children. |
| 1:36.0 | She was, she says, something of a lost soul. |
| 1:39.0 | Amidst the turmoil, she dropped out of school to work as a nanny in Canada and it was there that she |
| 1:43.7 | went to see a show where she saw acting so bad in a local production she |
| 1:47.2 | thought to herself I could do better than that and promptly returned home and |
| 1:51.2 | secured a place at drama school. It was at this pivotal |
| 1:54.8 | juncture that her life changed forever but for reasons that well we're going to come |
| 1:58.9 | to a little bit later not the ones you'd expect. Soon after drama school, the cobbles came calling, |
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