Tasha Ghouri on finding your voice, healing from heartbreak, and embracing your superpower
White Wine Question Time
Stak
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Joining us today is a model, dancer, Strictly finalist and trailblazer who became the first deaf contestant on Love Island, using the platform to shift perceptions, challenge stereotypes and champion inclusion – it’s the brilliant Tasha Ghouri!
In this episode, Tasha opens up about her extraordinary journey so far, from navigating bullying and self-doubt to becoming a rising star in fashion and dance. Here, she shares the life-changing moment her cochlear implant failed during her A-Levels, the mental toll it took, and how it shaped her fierce independence and determination to thrive, no matter the obstacle.
We also talk about heartbreak and healing, as Tasha reflects on the end of her long-term relationship during the Strictly Come Dancing tour, the media storm that followed, and the lessons she learned from her parents’ difficult divorce. With honesty and humour, she also reveals how solo travel and writing her new book helped her process life’s biggest changes and reconnect with her inner strength.
Her debut book, Your Superpower, is out now and available wherever you get your books.
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of white wine question time |
| 0:07.8 | now remember I switched my phone off for literally for about five days I didn't text anyone |
| 0:14.4 | I didn't message anyone my mom tried to see to see me because I didn't message anyone |
| 0:19.5 | back I went into a cave. |
| 0:21.6 | You know, I thought there's a whole life I had that thought was going to happen |
| 0:25.6 | and like I'm not really had time to really process and breathe yet. |
| 0:30.6 | When you go through something so young, your resilience grows quicker, I think. |
| 0:35.6 | You know, you're having come overcome those obstacles a lot quicker |
| 0:40.3 | So I remember saying to mum I said I'm gonna go to college today and she went are you sure? |
| 0:45.3 | I said yeah even I couldn't hear anything I still got on the train I got to college I still did my dance classes |
| 0:52.3 | I tried to speak to my friends as much as I could by lip reading. |
| 0:57.0 | I just wanted, I needed to be around people. |
| 0:59.0 | The reason why I did that, I said to mum, I need to adapt. |
| 1:02.0 | You know, that's the only way I can learn from this. |
| 1:05.0 | After rehearsals, we were in Birmingham, I go to the hotel bar |
| 1:09.0 | and I was, it sounded really bad, bad. She was |
| 1:12.0 | drinking wine to get, make me feel numb. I didn't want to feel emotion. I was just in a |
| 1:17.3 | really bad place that week, really, really bad place. I was kind of close to leaving the tour. |
| 1:23.0 | That's kind of where I was at. And yeah, the divorce wasn't a lovely one. |
| 1:28.3 | It was a very bad divorce. |
| 1:30.3 | And that meant that they wouldn't speak to each other. |
| 1:32.3 | You know, it was medium-middle person, mum said this, dad said that, you know, I'd be texting |
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