Why Hannah East Talks About Her Loss on Stage
Happy Mum
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Gi sits down with comedian Hannah East to talk about the chaos of parenting three children.
Hannah shares her unique career journey, from competing on Gladiators (where she met her husband) to presenting at the 2012 Olympics.
She also opens up about her fertility struggles and two miscarriages, and how her experiences with grief inspired her to create a stand-up show to help others feel less alone.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of Happy Mom, Happy Baby, the podcast. |
| 0:09.9 | Today's guest is the hilarious Hannah East. |
| 0:14.0 | I howled my way through this recording, so I've got absolutely no doubt that you are going to enjoy it. |
| 0:21.0 | Her route to comedy is quite a random one. |
| 0:23.8 | She was actually a very, very, very good swimmer, became a coach, |
| 0:28.1 | was on The Gladiators and ended up having to read in for Caroline Flagg. |
| 0:34.2 | She is also the co-host of the podcast, No Parental Guidance, |
| 0:37.9 | with our lovely Louise Boys, who we've had on before. |
| 0:40.5 | She's a mum of three. |
| 0:41.7 | She is absolutely hilarious. |
| 0:44.0 | She shares loads of different sketches online about motherhood. |
| 0:47.2 | I think you're going to love her. |
| 0:48.2 | So here she is, Hannah Reist. |
| 0:53.5 | I go to Sub-Six when I'm drunk,is when I'm drunk |
| 0:55.2 | Or if I'm in a sort of a confrontation, let's say |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah |
| 1:00.9 | On the schoolgates |
| 1:02.4 | And your pyjamas kicking the shit out of another mum |
| 1:05.0 | What you're fucking talking about |
| 1:06.9 | Is that what you mean? |
| 1:09.1 | That is me actually, that was me this morning |
| 1:10.7 | Yeah Yeah How was your morning? You were asking you about mine, but was yours chaotic? Oh yeah, chaos. Yeah, just chaos. How are you all of yourself? 2, 7 and 9. Okay. Yeah, 2 year old girl and then two boys. Okay. Yeah, and my daughter was walking around with a Barbie and a plastic shotgun. They're like four by six. And she's got hair like, you know, they won't always let you tie it up. Yeah. So she looks like Wurzel Gummage. You know the film The Good Dinosaur? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they have that little kid that runs around in the leopard print nappy, like with hair. That's her. We're like, ROL. Like, she looks like that. |
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