The Trawl Meets Nadia Sawalha

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

News, Politics, Government

4.7 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Marina and Jemma meet actress, Loose Woman and all round legend Nadia Sawalha.

The Trawl ladies couldn’t wait to chat to Nadia and to find out what it’s been like using her huge Instagram platform to speak out about Gaza and to advocate for the Palestinians.

They talk about juggling life as a Loose Woman whilst having a political voice, the consequences of speaking out and what her guilty pleasures are.

There’s relationship chat and Jemma finds out for sure, something she’s suspected for a while.

A warm, funny chat with a wonderful woman. Enjoy

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0:00.0	I love it so much and I've loved it over all these years.
0:03.1	I've come in and I've come out of it.
0:04.5	And my favourite thing in the whole world is talking to other women.
0:17.5	Hello and welcome to the trawl meets.
0:19.9	I'm Marina Perkis.
0:21.1	And I'm Gemma Forte and on The Trawl Meets, Marina and I get to chat with someone we admire and find interesting.
0:28.3	We discuss political topics that they're passionate about and explore their unique experience of and views on social media.
0:36.5	Yeah, and today's guest is best known for being an
0:39.2	actress and a presenter. She was in EastEnders for two years and is one of the original
0:44.4	loose women on ITV, cropping up to talk about everything and anything since the show began in
0:50.1	1999. Her illustrious and varied career has been full of interesting moments.
0:55.8	She's been on Dancing on Ice.
0:57.4	She won Celebrity Master Chef and she has a thriving YouTube channel and a podcast which she
1:03.5	hosts with her partner Mark.
1:05.4	But what Marina and I love about her the most is how she has really stuck her neck out and been one of the very loudest
1:13.6	voices on Instagram in terms of speaking out about the atrocities in Gaza and the suffering of the
1:19.4	Palestinians.
1:20.8	Welcome to the trawl meets Nadia Sawala.
1:24.4	Hello.
1:25.4	Thank you so much. And as you know, Mark and I are huge fans of yours. It was Mark that discovered you girls first. Oh. I said, you've got to listen to the trawl. So I'm really chuffed that I'm here chatting to you. Oh, thank you. We're chapped to Harry. I'm always, I'm still just shocked that people listen. I'm like that. I'm glad. I'm just saying with everything I do. I'm like, oh, somebody, oh, that people watch it. I so get what you mean with that. Always grateful. Now, obviously, we're going to want to talk loads about what's happening in the Middle East and how you've been speaking about that,
2:01.1	which is we're just incredibly grateful for what you're doing with your platform there.
2:05.3	But before we get into it, let's touch on some of the reasons you have got that huge platform
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