Tess Daly: “I’m rubbish at switching off!” Take your holiday wellness seriously
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
How good are you at switching off on holiday? Are you even any good at taking a proper holiday in the first place? Broadcaster Tess Daly reckons wellness is being physically and mentally able to turn up for everything in life that demands your time... And that includes prioritising time off from a busy schedule!
Welcome to The Happy Place Guide To Holidays! In this chat – brought to you by British Airways Holidays – Fearne and Tess share their advice on how to take your holiday wellbeing more seriously, including making lists ahead of time, locking your phone away, having your feet rubbed, and eating delicious local bread and desserts.
Plus, Tess reveals Strictly’s contingency plan for if things go wrong on the dancefloor, and the incredibly sweet vow renewal husband Vernon Kay organised for her…
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Happy Place Guide to Holidays, brought to you by British Airways Holidays. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Fern Cotton and today I'm chatting to Test Daily. |
| 0:10.0 | For me, going on holiday, it's about enjoying the moment. |
| 0:13.1 | It's a treat away from real life where, you know, I'm sort of facilitating everything in everybody's life. |
| 0:19.2 | I am the facilitator. |
| 0:20.7 | But when I'm on holiday, I just try and |
| 0:22.4 | swerve the email as much as I can, stay off my phone as much as I can. And I do try and be in the moment |
| 0:27.1 | because, you know, it's sort of, for me, there's nothing more mindful than looking at the ocean. |
| 0:31.6 | Having a glass of rosé at lunchtime. It's a lovely moment. It's a treaty moment. You don't only do that sort of thing on |
| 0:37.5 | holiday. And I don't want to be overly distracted from that. Now, you might have noticed that this |
| 0:41.8 | isn't just your regular episode of the podcast. This is the Happy Place Guide to Holidays. An |
| 0:48.7 | exclusive Happy Place mini series brought to you by British Airways Holidays, who are all about |
| 0:53.8 | helping you take your |
| 0:55.0 | holidays more seriously. Oh, I absolutely love travelling. And I know from speaking to guests on the |
| 1:01.3 | show, friends and family, you lovely lot, that for so many people, being on holiday is where they |
| 1:06.9 | find their happy place. Honestly, just take me to the sea. That is where I'm happiest. |
| 1:12.0 | But the thing is, life can often do its thing and get in the way, can't it? You just never quite |
| 1:16.4 | get around to making the time to get away. Each episode, I'm going to be joined by someone who has a |
| 1:21.9 | real love of travel. And we're going to explore what really makes a holiday. It's food and drink, yes please. It's |
| 1:29.2 | getting lost in a good book and nurturing our passions. But today, brilliant Tessonite, who by the way |
| 1:35.1 | has just been honoured with an MBE legend, we're going to do our best to get to grips with |
| 1:40.7 | wellness and the truly transformational effect prioritising it can have, |
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