Windy corner/hair raising Now. Please forgive me…. I’ve held back a few days from posting this as I know the UK has been hit by all the weather fronts. Seriously, I hope everyone is ok 🙏 if I’m too annoying feel free to ignore all posts over the next week or so… I don’t want to offend. If you want to see more of my travels let me know. Otherwise I’ll shut up 🤫☺️ Location: en route to Namibia Queen Mary 2 @cunardline Frock @sirens_london
Happy New Year lovely people 💜 Thank you for this year, being so wonderful, supportive, kind & hilarious 😆 I’m lucky to have you. Here’s to a happy & healthy 2024 Right, off to BBC R2… sitting in for Zo all this week. And I definitely don’t look like this right now 😉 @sanctumotg
So this is what 57 looks like 😊 Celebrating another year with my darling Shacky & friends ❤️ Grateful for my health, for another year of laughs & memories. Not wanting to sound like an Oscar speech but also grateful to those I love around me, for the TV shows I’m lucky enough to be part of, to the Radio gang I adore. To you guys on here, being so supportive & adorable. You keep this space a happy & positive place – thank you ❤️ So 57 👍🙏 Thank you Fabulous birffday dinner at the weekend with Shacky, Tim & Liz @samsriversidew6 – also celebrating Tim’s special day too (belated) @shacky01 @liz.a.shanahan @lockdownrations @samsriversidew6
Berry Red streak is still going strong… even though I’ve got drenched practically every day like all of you. Havoc with the blo drys 😉😩 You picked this colour ‘festive red’. I wasn’t sure but now love it ❤️ & it hasn’t faded at all. Next time? Might put it out there for you to decide #paidfor They say it takes an army. Well that’s the truth for my locks ❤️ Extensions @soniajittlahairstylist @richardwardhair @greatlengthsuk Blo dry @blo_bar_london Blonde highlights @gabrielladonovan
She definitely was ‘our girl’ on Breakfast this morning @bbcradio2 👏👏 What a delight to have @michkeegan join us. If you’re not already watching/addicted to Harlan Coben’s Fool Me Once – give it a go. More twists & turns than Alton Towers 😉Superb cast: Michelle Keegan, Dame Joanna Lumley, Richard Armitage, Adeel Akhtar, Dino Fetscher … it’s brilliant, it’s bingetastic. If it’s ‘brassic’ outside this is a great reason to stay in. Kiss your nights/weekend goodbye. So worth it 😊 Listen again to our chat @bbcsounds @bbcradio2
This one! @tonyblackburn OBE Just arrived at Wogan Towers (sitting in for Claud, join me from 10) & heard the fantastic news. Congratulations Tony OBE ❤️ #NewYearsHonours @bbcradio2
Final one sitting in for Zo on Breakfast @bbcradio2. The last 2 weeks have just flown by 😊 Not quite sure why I’m in the studio dressed in camouflage though 🤣 We’ve a great show to round off this week. I’ll be chatting to @fearnecotton about the ‘Little Things’ we can do in life, @lukethenukelittler on his incredible success – there’s no stopping this 16 year old, plus the 7.33 theme, Pause for Thought, PYOP & tons of top tunes to get you weekend ready. Massive thanks for joining us on Brekky. Ace messages & texts everyday. Also big up the Prod Squad, working over the festive period like many of you. Keeping me in tea & coffee & so much more. Jordan, James & the magnificent team thank you 🙏 The lovely Zo will be back early doors on Monday. Hopefully you can join me from 6.30 am today. Kettle’s on… @bbcradio2 @itsjordanhemingway @james.santer
So the votes have been counted & the winner is… deep breath Coatmas seemed to dominate most of my December. Christmas certainly came second to my parade of coats this year. And thanks to you lot for loving my little ensemble. Not quite little, let’s be honest, 25 in total. Although not all mine 😆🧥🥼 So back to the final… and the winner is (move over Ant & Dec) 💥This vintage coat from @dkny 💥Fanfare music please … Bought years & years ago & still going strong. First time feature on 25 Days of Coatmas I think & according to the numbers on reels, won by a country mile 🧡 Second place goes to my @lkbennettlondon green beauty with faux fur removal glamorous collar (I think the train announcement was a brucey bonus 📣) followed in third place by the walking talking teddy bear from @bimbaylola. Slightly too large but hey. I like roomy. Co star Honey (gorgeous 🐶) may have been the clincher adding extra likes. Not included here but loved by you & me was my brand new dusty pink @lkbennettlondon coat (dreamy) which got so many comments, it could bring out it’s own ‘I adore this coat’ book 💗 Just a bit of fun, also a small important reminder that a coat is not just for Christmas, look after it. Store it well. When the friendship dies please introduce to a new owner – friend, family member or a charity shop. You also can sell it on preloved clothing sites helping someone else appreciate your beautiful coat for another year ✨✨✨ Thank you 🙏 Let me know if you would like a 25 Days of Coatmas 2024 please! Or have you had enough of me/my coats/charity coats for the time being 🤣 😩❤️ ? Please say yes… Happy Saturday you gorgeous lot. It’s chuffing cold so get those coats on x PS thank you to the lovely crews on location, friends, hairdresser, husband, sister & total strangers who filmed me catwalking each piece 👏 & not hating me when I suggested ‘can we film one more’ after the 12th take 😉
All that glitters… 😉 Giving it my best shimmer on the Queen Mary 2 @cunardline Party frock @myleeneklass
The lovely Fearne Cotton joined Nicki Chapman on Breakfast this morning to chat all about her new book on how to deal with stress and feel better. 🧡 Listen to their full chat on BBC Sounds 🎧
The lovely Fearne Cotton joined Nicki Chapman on Breakfast this morning to chat all about her new book on how to deal with stress and feel better. 🧡 Listen to their full chat on BBC Sounds 🎧
The lovely Fearne Cotton joined Nicki Chapman on Breakfast this morning to chat all about her new book on how to deal with stress and feel better. 🧡 Listen to their full chat on BBC Sounds 🎧
I see it, I like it, I want it but do I need it? Well the answer was definitely yes! Took hubby last week to @bicestervillage for a belated Christmas pressie shop. We thought we’d wait for the sales & it was definitely worth it. Haven’t been to Bicester for quite a while & what a treat. Apart from the rain but hey, every cloud as they say… not too busy at all! Probs had snow there today 🥶 Had my eye on some great deals so well worth a day out & no spur of the moment purchases. Had a wish list. And stuck to it 👍😊 Before anyone gets too excited … that Missoni bag contained …. wait for it…. A towel🤣 Thanks to the lovely team at The Apartment for the well earned refreshments 🤣
Chappers catwalk suit in cornflower blue 🩵 Fun fact for a Friday – this hue was one of the favourites of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. Every day’s a school day 😉 Stunning two piece from @aspigalondon. Fabulous single breasted jacket & trousers. I normally steer clear of lighter colours for trews (not always flattering on me) I make an exception for this pair. Slight stretch, great kick ass cord flares with huge helm should you want/need that longer look. Filmed in location – more to follow. Annoying I can’t share as I love this project but them’s the rules x ‘coming soon’ as they say Glam @victoriapenrosemakeup Cord suit @aspigalondon T shirt @insidejigsaw Kicks @welligogs.ltd Jewellery @monicavinader
Bottoms up 🩵 #saturdaynightdrinky
Two weeks at R2 🎙️🎶🎧 Fun times with the @bbcradio2 Fam over Christmas & New Year for Breakfast, Claud & Steve Thanks to all our fabulous guests @lukethenukelittler #sheridansmith @chefrickstein @iampaulmckenna @laura.adlington @fearnecotton @kevin.mccloud1 @michkeegan plus all the teams over the holidays. Even managed to win Jay’s 1st Thursday quiz of the year on Brekky against @juleslangvoice & @simakotecha (just don’t ask me the name of Will Young’s debut album pls 😩) Massive thanks to you for listening The gorgeous Zo is back bright & early tomorrow on Breakfast. Me, I’ll be listening in the gym… or in bed more like 😘 @bbcradio2 @james.santer @georgiasonair @juleslangvoice @simakotecha @samvaughan89 @mikewills_sport 💛💛💛💛
Two special guests this week on Breakfast @bbcradio2 Thanks @sheridansmithster & @chefrickstein for joining us x #TheCastaways @paramountplusuk #RickSteinontour
Glorious location for Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh Can you imagine having this as your view every single day? 💚 What an escape. Today 9.30 am @itv @itvloveyourweekend Thanks to the wonderful Alan who makes interviews & filming telly such a pleasure. First met at Chelsea, what a gent – funny, so knowledgable & has that wonderful & natural knack of making everyone feel special ❤️ With fellow guest & all round hilarious lady @hadderstime 😊 @alantitchmarshmbe Location Hampshire
Thank you to the wonderful @laura.adlington who joined us on Breakfast @bbcradio2 this morning taking about her new book ‘Diet starts Mxnday’ body confidence/making peace with your body & a whole lot more 👏 Listen again @bbcsounds
Always tempting 😉 🧚 Morning Joining Alan & the team tomorrow for @itvloveyourweekend. Talking Country Escapes, Midsomer Murders Mayhem Podcast, writing my memoir together with some delish rum tasting & the odd fairy fancy or two ☺️ be honest… who’s got a sweet tooth? Sunday 9.30 @itv
Love from Devon… best🍦 Ready steady… 🏡I ESCAPED TO THE COUNTRY is back 🏡 It’s all in that title. To start 2024 here’s a fab new series of revisits for your viewing pleasure. We know how you all love an update – 2 brand-new episodes of ‘I Escaped to the Country’ Series 8 will hit screens every week throughout January. Yes. This new, sunny, uplifting series was filmed over the summer & starts with Ginny & I today 2nd Jan @bbcone 3pm. Hopefully our international viewers will equally get to see it soon. Everyone always asks ‘did they make the move?’ Well here you go… @escape_country Enjoy! NB Many ice creams were consumed in the making of this show 😛 @ginnybuckley @alistair_appletons_mindsprings @thejuleshudson @denise.nurse @jonnieirwintv @sonalishah @stevebrowngb @brionymaybakes @escape_country End snap of the brilliant crew @celingrao @matthughessound @sam.spenny
This is everything … 🤣 Kevin McCloud kindly joined us on @bbcradio2 to talk about his new brilliant tour ‘Kevin McCloud’s Home Truths’. However, he also told me how/when to pickle a walnut… !?! I knew he was a legend (love Grand Designs). He’s now confirmed it 👏 Tour 5th Jan London/7th Jan Oxford/8th Jan Liverpool
Thank you thank you ✨ Celebrity Escape to the Country has really hit the spot with you all 😊👏 🙏 2.8million viewers peak 24% share peak BBC’s most watched programme of the day (excluding news!) Yeeesssssss An absolute Christmas cracker! So thrilled as these shows went out during the festive period so we were up against some brilliant programmes. Thank you ☺️ Feel free to watch again/catch the ones you missed on @bbciplayer … oh yes you can 🤣 Here’s a morsel of that feel good country loveliness … just what we all need Brand new REVISIT shows going out now too on @bbcone We adored making these shows, thrilled you all love them too ❤️ Big 🙏 to our terrific Celebs wanting to make that country escape @escape_country
Don’t courgette to tune in later today… We are back with another brand new revisit peeps! 👏😊👏 In 2015, we helped a couple on their quest to make their favourite camping destination their permanent home. Almost a decade later, I’m back to find out which of our offerings fulfilled their Peak District aspirations. Later in the show, I visit a former forces duo who, in 2019, had enlisted Ginny Buckley’s assistance in realising their dream of retiring to the Devonshire Coast – gorgeous revisits for you to enjoy! Today 3pm @bbcone @ginnybuckley @escape_country Derbyshire & Devon