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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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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 :-) Natasha Bedingfield 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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Attenzione miei cari! Last few tickets for tomorrow night’s show in Milan at Magazzini Generali available here: shorturl.at/kyEJO See you soon! Xx 

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I cannot believe that 4 cities are already sold out 🎉 Thank you so much. Can’t flipping wait! 85 days to go ✈️ Tickets for my North America Tour are selling fast 🎫 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

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The European Kitchen Disco Tour goes on the road this week and we are making an extra stop at the Magazzini Generali on March 19! This is my first live band show in Italy since 2002,  so I’m really excited to be coming to Milan 🇮🇹 ❤️ and we’ll be bringing our fab support Holiday Sidewinder with us, too 🥳

If you’re coming to one of the 14 dates, see you soon x can’t wait!

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12 sold out shows! 🎉 The Kitchen Disco European Tour is fast approaching, with only a few tickets left for Kaufleuten Club in Zurich. Book now https://shorturl.at/uzDMT 🪩💃

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Merch to die for. BRAND NEW Murder On The Dancefloor merchandise is exclusively available on Sophie’s official store: https://shorturl.at/auISV 🪩 💃

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Sophie Ellis-Bextor shot to fame as a vocalist on Spiller’s huge number one single Groovejet and followed it up with Take Me Home and her worldwide more...

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About Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Running time   Start 7.30pm (Support). Interval 8pm. Main Act 8.30pm. Ends 10pm.

Following on from the huge success of her 2022 Kitchen Disco Tour in which she brought her lockdown online sensation from her kitchen to sold-out stages across the country, Sophie Ellis-Bextor has announced a very special Christmas Kitchen Disco tour for 2023.

The 2023 tour, which kicks off in Bexhill, before heading all around the country including a date at the London Eventim Apollo, will feature hits from throughout Sophie’s career, as well as some very festive classics, all in Sophie’s own seasonal disco style.

Earlier this year, Sophie brought her Instagram phenomenon to the stage for the first time to huge success, including a sold-out finale at the London Palladium.

The Arts Desk commented that Sophie’s Kitchen Disco live show ‘… truly felt like you were dancing your cares away with some friends’ whilst the Mail on Sunday called it ‘warm and relatable’. The Daily Telegraph proclaimed that it was “An unabashedly feelgood echo of lockdown”.

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Nile Rodgers & Chic will embark on a UK tour next summer with special guest Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

The disco legends will perform five shows across the country, starting at The Piece Hall in Halifax on June 16 and stopping in Southampton, Bedford and Llangollen. 

Wrapping at Dreamland Margate on July 13, the group will be joined by pop star Sophie for the dates. Deco will also perform.

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“Thrilled to announce we’re bringing the ‘Good Times’ back across England and Wales in 2024!” Rodgers shared on a social media announcement. 

“Mark your calendars because we’re gonna light up the night, celebrate life, and dance like there’s no tomorrow.”

Tickets go on sale Friday (October 27) at 9am BST. The full list of dates is below.

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Sophie Ellis-Bextor heads back out on the road!

Following the release of recent singles ‘Young Blood’ and ‘Runaway Daydreamer’, Sophie Ellis-Bextor will release her third single  ‘Love is a Camera’ from her album ‘Wanderlust’ on the 23rd June.  ‘Wanderlust’  which is Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s fifth studio album, is now certified silver in the UK and gave Sophie her first top ten record since 2007’s ‘Trip the l ight Fantastic’ charting at No.4.

Co-written, produced and arranged by acclaimed singer songwriter and good friend Ed Harcourt, ‘Wanderlust’ was recorded in just two weeks in a London studio with other tight knit musician friends and was released on Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s own label EBGB’s . It features eleven powerfully understated songs showcasing a newfound maturity both lyrically and musically.

Singles from the album so far have included the emotive ‘Young Blood’ and upbeat ‘Runaway Daydreamer’, both of which have received A-List support from Radio 2 . The third single from the album will be ‘Love is a Camera’, which features a fast paced, dramatic baroque ending and has proved to be a live favourite. A new video for the single will be filmed in Florence with longtime visual collaborator Sophie Muller .

Sophie Ellis-Bextor recently performed two Sold Out!!! shows at London’s Union Chapel and a Sold Out!!! album launch gig at London’s Bush Hall which The Telegraph called “a crowd pleasing triumph”. She has just finished her UK tour and has now announced a further UK tour for September and October.

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Live Review: Sophie Ellis-Bextor – 5th December 2023 – Eventim Apollo, London, UK

It’s now officially the month of Christmas and as the festivities are in full swing around the country with lights being turned on, markets toasting chestnuts and people flocking to Winter Wonderland, popstars are also setting stages alight with shows centred around the most jolly time of year.

With a suitcase full of Christmas covers and chart hits spanning the last 20 years, pint sized pop icon Sophie Ellis-Bextor is performing up and down the country with her family in tow and more tinsel than an Amazon warehouse at this time of year, and last night it was London’s turn for the singer to bring her brand new show to fans who packed Hammersmith’s Eventim Apollo for a night full of songs, anecdotes and family surprises.

Presented in similar vein to her famous Kitchen Disco series which helped many of us through the lockdown days of Covid, Ellis-Bextor’s latest touring spectacle is a vibrant, engaging pop spectacle overflowing with Christmas classics, audience engagement and some of the pop world’s most successful pennings of the last couple of decades.

Opening the show at a little past 8.30pm, a giant white curtain fell to the stage floor to reveal the singer sitting on the back of a life-size white horse in a red glittery dress and Christmas hat as she dove straight into the show with a cover of Sleigh Ride . Throughout the course of the next 90 minutes fans were treated to a number of famous Christmas covers – from older classics like Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree , Shakin’ Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone and The Waitresses’ Christmas Wrapping through to more modern festive pop staples like Wham’s Last Christmas and Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You . After a series of humorous cracker-jokes including facts around pigeon feeding in the capital, pods on the London Eye and a pineapple shaped St Paul’s Cathedral providing a Panto-feel to the show, the singer introduced the crowd to a giant wheel that was positioned at the back of the stage and in Wheel of Fortune style, the addition of Catch You – which the singer comically described as “a fun pop song about stalking” – and a bouncy cover of Lionel Richie’s All Night Long were welcomed within the set.

With husband Richard on guitar and brother Jack on drums, the homecoming show was a family affair for Ellis-Bextor who’s 5 children were sitting comfortably backstage as their famous parents performed to a packed Eventim Apollo. Though the onstage antics must have seemed to enticing for the youngsters as they joined their parents on stage for a spectacular performance of Ellis-Bextors signature hit, Murder on the Dancefloor .

While Christmas was the theme of the night, it was the singers own hits that got the crowd worked up the most, notably a synth-heavy rendition of early breakthrough hit Groovejet and career highlight, Get Over You which both had the crowd providing a sturdy singalong with the pop icon as she got up close with fans in the front rows; many of were more than eager to show off their dance moves as the Take Me Home hitmaker encouraged the audience to join the choreographed moves during her performance of more recent hit, Hypnotised .

The crowd were certainly in the festive mood throughout the show as many were seen in head to toe Christmas costumes and were always ready to get up on their feet and dance along to the singer as she paced the stage singing the hits. Last nights performance was more of an ‘Audience With…’ style show as opposed to a regular pop concert and it was this that set this show apart from many others. Ellis-Bextor’s playful banter with the crowd was both engaging and entertaining as the set was a perfect combination of Christmas classics and the singers own successful pennings so there really was something to offer everyone that attended.

Setlist: Sleigh Ride (Leroy Anderson & His Pops Orchestra cover) Music Gets the Best of Me Wild Forever Catch You (Wheel spin song) Hypnotized A Thousand Orchids Lost in the Sunshine Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree (Brenda Lee cover) Last Christmas (Wham! cover) All Night Long (Lionel Richie cover) (Wheel spin song) Get Over You Merry Christmas Everyone (Shakin’ Stevens cover) Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) (Spiller cover) Christmas Wrapping (The Waitresses cover) Crying at the Discoteque (Alcazar cover) Like a Prayer (Madonna cover) Heartbreak (Make Me a Dancer) (Freemasons cover) Murder on the Dancefloor

Encore: Fairytale of New York (The Pogues cover) All I Want for Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey cover) Have yourself a merry little Christmas

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Take That to tour Australia with Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Ellis-Bextor will be a special guest at the UK pop trio’s first live shows in the region since 2017

Take That will embark on a tour of Australia accompanied by Sophie Ellis-Bextor in October and November this year – see the full list of dates and ticket information below.

• READ MORE: Sophie Ellis-Bextor on the return of ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ – and watching Saltburn with her mum

Ellis-Bextor’s 2001 single ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ is enjoying a cultural and chart resurgence thanks to its use in the Jacob Elordi- and Barry Keoghan-starring movie Saltburn . She will be a special guest when the UK pop trio of Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald return down under for their first shows in the region since 2017.

Dubbed This Life On Tour, this round of dates will kick off October 30 at Perth’s RAC Arena. They will also perform at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena and Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena, and then round out the tour with three stops at wineries in South Australia, NSW and Queensland for concert series A Day On The Green. Australia’s own Ricki-Lee Coulter will join them at A Day On The Green.

Take That and Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s 2024 Australia tour dates are:

OCTOBER Wednesday 30 – Perth, WA, RAC Arena

NOVEMBER Saturday 2 – Barossa Valley, SA, Peter Lehmann Wines* Wednesday 6 – Melbourne, VIC, Rod Laver Arena Thursday 7 – Sydney, NSW, Qudos Bank Arena Saturday 9 – Hunter Valley, NSW, Bimbadgen* Sunday 10 – Mount Cotton, QLD, Sirromet Wines*

*A Day On The Green with Ricki-Lee Coulter

An artist pre-sale with the code “THISLIFE” begins Wednesday February 7 at 1pm local time, while pre-sale for Frontier Touring members begins the same day at 3pm local time. General sale kicks off next Tuesday February 13 at 1pm local time. Find more information via promoter Frontier Touring .

• READ MORE: Australia concerts in 2024: here’s a list of shows and tours coming up

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Take That’s tour comes in support of their 2023 album ‘This Life’. Their first album in six years, it charted at No. 1 in the UK and was the biggest selling album from a UK artist last year. Ellis-Bextor’s own ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ has gone viral and re-entered charts around the world following its use in the finale of Emerald Fennell-directed film Saltburn – where it soundtracked Keoghan dancing nude through the titular mansion.

The song is currently sitting at number 7 on the ARIA singles chart (it peaked at number 3 in 2002) and was covered earlier this month by the Sydney indie band Royel Otis on triple j’s Like A Version .

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Sophie Ellis-Bextor might have stormed back up the charts recently , but she’s not the only 2000s pop superstar making a fresh bid for number one.

The London singer’s hit Murder on the Dancefloor reached number two way back in 2001, and raced back up to the same heights in January 2024 after its inclusion on the Saltburn soundtrack.

But, unbelievably, she’s not the only 00s pop sensation being given another go at the charts in the first weeks of the new year, as Natasha Bedingfield has found out this week .

Her song Unwritten, which first reached the UK top 10 in 2004, has re-entered the top 20 on the Official Singles Chart after its prominent use in Anyone But You, the rom-com starring Sydney Sweeney.

Almost two decades on from its original release, the song has spread far and wide on TikTok, giving Natasha Bedingfield her first big hit in the UK since Love Like This – a collaboration with Sean Kingston that reached number 20.

It’s news that has pleased the I Bruise Easily singer immensely: ‘I’ve had songs in movies before but this time I really love the way it’s been used in such a special way that it makes you feel joyful.’

Clips posted onto the video-sharing app have shown people leaving movie theatres while singing the song, with millions of views also being racked up by users posting dance routines to the 20-year-old song.

Natasha continued: ‘People are actually singing it as they leave the theatre! Over the years Unwritten has somehow become an anthem to sing at the top of your lungs. This makes me the happiest girl in the world.’

If Unwritten were to get all the way to the top of the chart in the next few weeks, it wouldn’t be the first time Natasha has landed a UK number one.

These Words, released as her second single overall, managed two weeks at number one in 2004 when the likes of Busted, The Streets, and Avril Lavigne were at the height of their fame.

Ironically, it was Natasha’s brother Daniel Bedingfield who kept Murder on the Dancefloor off number one during its original run in 2001, with his song Gotta Get Thru This topping the charts at the time.

Speaking about the resurgence of Murder of the Dancefloor , Sophie told Metro.co.uk : ‘There has been a lot of crazy stuff. The way the world is, we get so much every day, every day there’s like a new development.

‘But I did slightly freak out when Oprah Winfrey used Murder [in a new video]. I’m not going to lie. I was like, “Oh my God. Oprah Winfrey! Is using Murder on the Dancefloor!

‘I think [my son] finds it slightly baffling,’ she admitted. ‘Not like, horrified or anything, but he’s definitely a little bit perplexed – like, “Why is mum doing things in what is normally just my world?’”

‘But I reassured him it’s going to pass – it’ll be a safe space again soon.’

As for Natasha, it’s not the first time one of her hits has been given a new lease of life after being included in a popular movie, with Pocketful of Sunshine eventually being certified Silver in the UK after its inclusion on the soundtrack to Easy A.

If Natasha is to claim her second number one in UK chart history, she will have to go some to overhaul Noah Kahan’s Stick Season, currently in its third week at number one, and Yes, And?, the brand new single from Ariana Grande .

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