WEEKEND WINE QUESTION TIME with Ellie Simmonds
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
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🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Welcome to Weekend Wine Question Time, where on Saturdays we bring you a bonus question with our latest guest. This week it's 5 times gold medal winning Paralympian Ellie Simmonds.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to weekend white wine question time where we're about to, every pun intended, dive back in to our episode with Ellie Simmons, who for the purposes of this weekend, I'm going to sit back and let, well, not just one of you guys take the lead, but actually one of her guys. Yeah. I'm going to kick off with a question from one |
| 0:22.3 | of her co-stars from the Strictly Ballroom and the Gogglebox sofa. But first things first, |
| 0:27.3 | let's pick up where we left off. So, Ellie, I have a question for you to set up the weekend, right? And before we dive into the |
| 0:43.3 | question, just tell me, what does the weekend normally look like in Ellie Simmons world? |
| 0:47.4 | Oh, it's so different. I try and get out, do your barriers if I can or be with friends or be with family or get out and about and do something social. |
| 0:59.7 | But also, like, I love to do a bit of a workout as well. |
| 1:02.9 | Do you? |
| 1:03.5 | What's your favourite kind of training at the moment? |
| 1:05.3 | So I love, I go to Barry's boot camp in London and And it's like treadmill, it's weights. |
| 1:11.4 | But then I also am into yoga at the moment and Pilates. |
| 1:15.0 | So, yeah, I love like, yeah, just the weights and just pushing my body. |
| 1:19.9 | But then looking after it too. |
| 1:22.2 | Absolutely. |
| 1:23.0 | I like on a weekend to get all of that good stuff done in the morning. |
| 1:26.7 | So I like, I like wild swimming, well, cold water swimming. |
| 1:31.7 | Oh, brilliant. |
| 1:32.9 | That's probably a bit of a busman's holiday for you. |
| 1:35.1 | A bit of Pilates. |
| 1:36.5 | But then come the afternoon, once you get to sort of lunchtime, I like now to make Saturday night, Saturday day time. |
| 1:42.0 | I like to be home by nine, but I like to have a |
| 1:44.8 | Saturday night between sort of hours of two and eight, where a boozy lunch maybe, a couple of drinks, |
| 1:52.0 | something nice, some mates, but then home in time for a box set. Is that just a sign of my midlife? |
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