A portacabin, some sequins and an enthusiastic crowd? It must be the first festival of 2024! Thank you for having us, @paaspopfestival 🔥 such a brilliant site and incredible stages. We brought the kids and we all had fun 👌⚡️- that crowd!! 😍 xx
A portacabin, some sequins and an enthusiastic crowd? It must be the first festival of 2024! Thank you for having us, @paaspopfestival 🔥 such a brilliant site and incredible stages. We brought the kids and we all had fun 👌⚡️- that crowd!! 😍 xx
A portacabin, some sequins and an enthusiastic crowd? It must be the first festival of 2024! Thank you for having us, @paaspopfestival 🔥 such a brilliant site and incredible stages. We brought the kids and we all had fun 👌⚡️- that crowd!! 😍 xx
A portacabin, some sequins and an enthusiastic crowd? It must be the first festival of 2024! Thank you for having us, @paaspopfestival 🔥 such a brilliant site and incredible stages. We brought the kids and we all had fun 👌⚡️- that crowd!! 😍 xx
💞🌸 This is 45!!! And up there with the best of birthdays 🎂 Started the day with cards from the kids and breakfast in bed, ended it with the craziest of crazy golf at the mighty @junkyardgolfclub in Camden where I was doing ok on the score card until hole 9, Murder on the Dancefloor, was my undoing. Cherry blossom, cake, cocktails, loved ones… and I got to share it all with @richardjonesface who is also now 45. April babies having springtime fun with some of our favourite people. Here’s to the good times! Xxx big thanks to @junkyardgolfclub for looking after us so well. It was the best place for a party! We loved it. Also I got to wear maybe my favourite dress ever by @mrselfportrait – pink, feathered and diamanté – hurrah! 💞🌸
💞🌸 This is 45!!! And up there with the best of birthdays 🎂 Started the day with cards from the kids and breakfast in bed, ended it with the craziest of crazy golf at the mighty @junkyardgolfclub in Camden where I was doing ok on the score card until hole 9, Murder on the Dancefloor, was my undoing. Cherry blossom, cake, cocktails, loved ones… and I got to share it all with @richardjonesface who is also now 45. April babies having springtime fun with some of our favourite people. Here’s to the good times! Xxx big thanks to @junkyardgolfclub for looking after us so well. It was the best place for a party! We loved it. Also I got to wear maybe my favourite dress ever by @mrselfportrait – pink, feathered and diamanté – hurrah! 💞🌸
💞🌸 This is 45!!! And up there with the best of birthdays 🎂 Started the day with cards from the kids and breakfast in bed, ended it with the craziest of crazy golf at the mighty @junkyardgolfclub in Camden where I was doing ok on the score card until hole 9, Murder on the Dancefloor, was my undoing. Cherry blossom, cake, cocktails, loved ones… and I got to share it all with @richardjonesface who is also now 45. April babies having springtime fun with some of our favourite people. Here’s to the good times! Xxx big thanks to @junkyardgolfclub for looking after us so well. It was the best place for a party! We loved it. Also I got to wear maybe my favourite dress ever by @mrselfportrait – pink, feathered and diamanté – hurrah! 💞🌸
💞🌸 This is 45!!! And up there with the best of birthdays 🎂 Started the day with cards from the kids and breakfast in bed, ended it with the craziest of crazy golf at the mighty @junkyardgolfclub in Camden where I was doing ok on the score card until hole 9, Murder on the Dancefloor, was my undoing. Cherry blossom, cake, cocktails, loved ones… and I got to share it all with @richardjonesface who is also now 45. April babies having springtime fun with some of our favourite people. Here’s to the good times! Xxx big thanks to @junkyardgolfclub for looking after us so well. It was the best place for a party! We loved it. Also I got to wear maybe my favourite dress ever by @mrselfportrait – pink, feathered and diamanté – hurrah! 💞🌸
💞🌸 This is 45!!! And up there with the best of birthdays 🎂 Started the day with cards from the kids and breakfast in bed, ended it with the craziest of crazy golf at the mighty @junkyardgolfclub in Camden where I was doing ok on the score card until hole 9, Murder on the Dancefloor, was my undoing. Cherry blossom, cake, cocktails, loved ones… and I got to share it all with @richardjonesface who is also now 45. April babies having springtime fun with some of our favourite people. Here’s to the good times! Xxx big thanks to @junkyardgolfclub for looking after us so well. It was the best place for a party! We loved it. Also I got to wear maybe my favourite dress ever by @mrselfportrait – pink, feathered and diamanté – hurrah! 💞🌸
💞🌸 This is 45!!! And up there with the best of birthdays 🎂 Started the day with cards from the kids and breakfast in bed, ended it with the craziest of crazy golf at the mighty @junkyardgolfclub in Camden where I was doing ok on the score card until hole 9, Murder on the Dancefloor, was my undoing. Cherry blossom, cake, cocktails, loved ones… and I got to share it all with @richardjonesface who is also now 45. April babies having springtime fun with some of our favourite people. Here’s to the good times! Xxx big thanks to @junkyardgolfclub for looking after us so well. It was the best place for a party! We loved it. Also I got to wear maybe my favourite dress ever by @mrselfportrait – pink, feathered and diamanté – hurrah! 💞🌸
💞🌸 This is 45!!! And up there with the best of birthdays 🎂 Started the day with cards from the kids and breakfast in bed, ended it with the craziest of crazy golf at the mighty @junkyardgolfclub in Camden where I was doing ok on the score card until hole 9, Murder on the Dancefloor, was my undoing. Cherry blossom, cake, cocktails, loved ones… and I got to share it all with @richardjonesface who is also now 45. April babies having springtime fun with some of our favourite people. Here’s to the good times! Xxx big thanks to @junkyardgolfclub for looking after us so well. It was the best place for a party! We loved it. Also I got to wear maybe my favourite dress ever by @mrselfportrait – pink, feathered and diamanté – hurrah! 💞🌸
💞🌸 This is 45!!! And up there with the best of birthdays 🎂 Started the day with cards from the kids and breakfast in bed, ended it with the craziest of crazy golf at the mighty @junkyardgolfclub in Camden where I was doing ok on the score card until hole 9, Murder on the Dancefloor, was my undoing. Cherry blossom, cake, cocktails, loved ones… and I got to share it all with @richardjonesface who is also now 45. April babies having springtime fun with some of our favourite people. Here’s to the good times! Xxx big thanks to @junkyardgolfclub for looking after us so well. It was the best place for a party! We loved it. Also I got to wear maybe my favourite dress ever by @mrselfportrait – pink, feathered and diamanté – hurrah! 💞🌸
💞🌸 This is 45!!! And up there with the best of birthdays 🎂 Started the day with cards from the kids and breakfast in bed, ended it with the craziest of crazy golf at the mighty @junkyardgolfclub in Camden where I was doing ok on the score card until hole 9, Murder on the Dancefloor, was my undoing. Cherry blossom, cake, cocktails, loved ones… and I got to share it all with @richardjonesface who is also now 45. April babies having springtime fun with some of our favourite people. Here’s to the good times! Xxx big thanks to @junkyardgolfclub for looking after us so well. It was the best place for a party! We loved it. Also I got to wear maybe my favourite dress ever by @mrselfportrait – pink, feathered and diamanté – hurrah! 💞🌸
💞🌸 This is 45!!! And up there with the best of birthdays 🎂 Started the day with cards from the kids and breakfast in bed, ended it with the craziest of crazy golf at the mighty @junkyardgolfclub in Camden where I was doing ok on the score card until hole 9, Murder on the Dancefloor, was my undoing. Cherry blossom, cake, cocktails, loved ones… and I got to share it all with @richardjonesface who is also now 45. April babies having springtime fun with some of our favourite people. Here’s to the good times! Xxx big thanks to @junkyardgolfclub for looking after us so well. It was the best place for a party! We loved it. Also I got to wear maybe my favourite dress ever by @mrselfportrait – pink, feathered and diamanté – hurrah! 💞🌸
A big design challenge calls for a stellar guest judge… welcome @sophieellisbextor!
Our designers’ Wembley dressing room makeovers will need to please Sophie and @michelleogundehin, as well as some of the world’s biggest A-listers 🌟 The pressure really is on for the #InteriorDesignMasters Semi-Final!
SAN VITO IS HERE!! 👏🎂👏🎂 Happy New Album to @richardjonesface @kevinjeremiah @ciarandjeremiah @dangsells @prsdrums aka @feelinginsta 👏🎂👏🎂 it’s a wonderful album full of their classic gorgeous songs, all laced with Italian beauty. Recorded in Puglia. Complimenti, ragazzi! è fantastico! 🇮🇹 🥰
SAN VITO IS HERE!! 👏🎂👏🎂 Happy New Album to @richardjonesface @kevinjeremiah @ciarandjeremiah @dangsells @prsdrums aka @feelinginsta 👏🎂👏🎂 it’s a wonderful album full of their classic gorgeous songs, all laced with Italian beauty. Recorded in Puglia. Complimenti, ragazzi! è fantastico! 🇮🇹 🥰
Heather James is best known to us all as the mum of Deborah James, the beautiful bowelbabe, who I interviewed for Spinning Plates 3 years ago. That was the year before her premature death at the age of 40, from bowel cancer.
Heather explained how she is grieving but working. Not only working in her day job as a gymnastics teacher, but also doing everything that Deborah would have continued with – including campaigning to highlight April as Bowel Cancer Awareness month.
Deborah spent the last weeks of her life at her mum and dad’s house in the summer of 2022 surrounded by her family. Heather and her husband Alistair found themselves looking after Deborah and, to everyone’s surprise, hosting Prince William when he came to their garden to make Deborah a Dame.
Heather talked about caring for Deborah when she came home to die, but said Deborah’s zest for life – and campaigning – meant that far from going quiet, it was a busy time of fun, outings, a book, a rose and of course, a Damehood.
It struck me that Heather is everything you would hope to be, as a mum in such a dreadful circumstance.
She is planning to life life to the full, as Deborah wanted her to. And we spoke, just before her son’s wedding where the entire family were planning to party and celebrate just as Deborah would have done if she were still here. And speaking as someone who witnessed her 40th birthday party in full swing, boy, did Deborah know how to party!
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New podcast series klaxon!! Spinning Plates is back, and we kick off the the new series with a friend of mine 🙂
@natashabedingfield is a New Zealand-UK singer and songwriter who started out in the business at a similar time to me. Another shared link is that we are both currently on a new adventure with songs we brought out originally in our early 20s! How’s that for a coincidence? We’ve each been on an unexpected and exciting journey with our old songs… both because of recent films. The film ‘Anyone but You’ featured Natasha’s ‘Unwritten’ which originally charted nearly 20 years ago.
Natasha talked about her place in her own family’s politics, where her brother Daniel was the first to get into the music industry. Natasha had to fight to pursue her music career; in her family’s eyes, that ‘place’ had already been taken by her sibling! (Sidenote: Daniel’s debut single ‘Gotta Get Thru This’ kept Murder off the top spot in the charts 22 years ago – not that I’m holding a grudge or anything, Daniel!)
Natasha has a little boy who is now 6. When he was 2, he was taken seriously ill with a spontaneous brain abscess He had to have two surgeries and was in hospital for 5 weeks. Thankfully there was a cure and he is fully recovered, but the time he was in hospital was obviously an extremely difficult period for Natasha and her husband. Natasha remembers having to perform a gig while her son was still in hospital. She shared how terribly difficult that was, and how in a room full of small talk she would suddenly blurt out ‘My son’s in hospital!’.
On a lighter note Natasha and I talked about how having a baby changed our singing range – for the better! And we agreed that we are both really enjoying the new ride with our old songs from the early 2000s. It was such a pleasure to hang out with Natasha – she’s such a positive person – and here’s to another series of Spinning Plates!
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Michelle Ogundehin is best known as the head judge of Interior Designs Masterclass on BBC 1. It’s a programme I am utterly addicted to, and I was therefore delighted to have been asked to join as a guest judge for semi finals week, this week (TX 23/4/24). I have been a fan of Michelle’s expert eye when it comes to interiors for a long time, having devoured every issue of Elle Decoration published during her time as editor in chief from 2004-2017. I love her approach to homes and how they make you feel, always taking into account the link between our environment and how it affects our mental health.
Off-screen, Michelle is a devoted single mum to her 10 year old son. She became a mum later in life, after years of trying, and her journey included IVF and four miscarriages. She says her son is the best thing that has ever happened to her.
We talked about her worries about becoming a mum due to her own mother not being maternal or loving to her.
She told me how she has recently been ‘album-ing’ her life and also that she believes that what surrounds us at home affects us.
I finally tested her boundaries when I mischievously suggested she should let her little boy draw on his bedroom walls, just as my mum let me!
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