This week on the podcast I go on a style journey with the funny and self-deprecating former You Magazine Editor and now CEO of Children with Cancer Charity, Jo Elvin. I first met Jo in the late 90’s when she was editor of New Woman (we both admitted to being slightly intimidated by the other)…she went on to become editor in chief of Conde Nast’s Glamour magazine, a position she held for 17 years before being lured away to edit You Magazine which she led brilliantly for 4 years before turning her...
Apr 05, 2023•56 min•Season 2Ep. 3
This week I head on a sartorial journey with Broadcaster Miquita Oliver. Growing up in West London and the niece of Neneh Cherry, Miquita was surrounded by the music world …she was recruited at the tender age of 16 to present Channel 4’s cult Sunday morning pop culture show, Popworld, with Simon Amstell. In 2022 Miquita and her mother, TV chef and presenter Andi Oliver, featured in a BBC television series The Caribbean with Andi and Miquita. Starting out in Antigua, where they met members of the...
Mar 29, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 2
I am kicking off Series 2 by going on a sartorial journey with Actress, Singer, Producer, Radio Presenter…the star who is known as the First Lady of British Musical Theatre…the wonderful and brilliant Elaine Paige OBE. This petite pocket rocket is a force of nature… she has wowed audiences through the decades starring in everything from Cats to Sunset Boulevard to Evita to Piaff and so much more… she has performed around the world from The Great Wall of China to The White House… Amongst other th...
Mar 22, 2023•40 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Join Amanda Wakeley as she is joined by a different celebrity guest each week as she uncovers their very own Style DNA.I have kept the hilarious Style DNA conversation I had with Singer Songwriter and Musician James Blunt until last in this first series… After leaving the military, James rose to fame in 2004 with the release of his debut album Back to Bedlam, achieving worldwide fame with the singles "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover", and selling over 11 million copies of the album. He i...
Jan 14, 2023•43 min
Join Amanda Wakeley as she is joined by a different celebrity guest each week as she uncovers their very own Style DNA. This week's guest is Paula Sutton – Digital Creator, columnist and author Paula Sutton. After starting off as a press officer for Elite Premier model agency in London, she worked in fashion PR and as a model agent before landing at Elle, where she was the bookings director (planning the sets and locations for the shoots). Paula moved from London to rural Norfolk 10 years ago wh...
Jan 07, 2023•38 min
Join Amanda Wakeley as she is joined by a different celebrity guest each week as she uncovers their very own Style DNA. This week's guest is Anita Rani – TV and Radio Presenter, Author. Anita’s career spans over 20 years and she is a true girl’s girl, happy to share her ups and her downs…the hard knocks of being a brown girl (her words) growing up in a very white Britain…Her recently published and self-narrated memoirs The Right Sort of Girl is painfully raw, honest but wonderfully upliftingly, ...
Dec 17, 2022•54 min
Join Amanda Wakeley as she is joined by a different celebrity guest each week as she uncovers their very own Style DNA. This week's guest is Lisa Armstrong OBE….Lisa is The Telegraph's Head of Fashion. She began her career in fashion at Vogue. She has written four novels, has an honorary doctorate from the University of Arts in London and was awarded an OBE in 2022 for services to fashion. After a childhood spent in rural Dorset Lisa shares stories of her fashion journey from starting out as a j...
Dec 10, 2022•39 min
Join Amanda Wakeley as she is joined by a different celebrity guest each week as she uncovers their very own Style DNA. This week's guest is Liz Earle MBE …In this episode I go on a sartorial journey with Liz Earle MBE…Liz has been a trusted authority in the world of wellbeing for over 30 years. She has written over 35 books on many aspects of nutritional, hormonal and gut health, as well as being a regular wellness TV presenter and podcast host. She is passionate about improving the health of m...
Dec 03, 2022•42 min
Join Amanda Wakeley as she is joined by a different celebrity guest each week as she uncovers their very own Style DNA. This week's guest is Ella Vaday - I always knew that I wanted to include a Drag Artist in this first series. I was fortunate enough to be introduced to the brilliant and very modest Ella Vaday (say Hell Of A Day fast and you will understand the humour behind the name), AKA Nick Collier, the actor and dancer. Nick created his drag persona Ella Vaday during Lockdown and then went...
Nov 26, 2022•51 min
Join Amanda Wakeley as she is joined by a different celebrity guest each week as she uncovers their very own Style DNA. This week's guest is Michele Clapton, celebrated British costume designer. Michele was the costume designer for Game of Thrones for which she won 3 Emmy Awards. She created the iconic costumes in the first season of The Crown, as well as Kingsman and The Devil’s Whore (for which she won a BAFTA) and many more. Her passion for the creative process and crafting techniques is fasc...
Nov 19, 2022•48 min
Join Amanda Wakeley as she is joined by a different celebrity guest each week as she uncovers their very own Style DNA. This week's guest is Dylan Jones OBE –the man who edited GQ for no fewer than 22 years, creator of the now iconic GQ Men of the Year awards. During his time as editor of GQ the magazine won an unprecedented number of awards and he garnered an almost unparalleled understanding of men’s style … Dylan has a unique perspicacity of the often impenetrable world of fashion and shares ...
Nov 12, 2022•58 min
Join Amanda Wakeley as she is joined by a different celebrity guest each week as she uncovers their very own Style DNA. This week's guest is Tasha Ghouri – Model, Ebay UK Preloved ambassador, Love Island finalist with 1.5m followers on Instagram and advocate for Deaf Kidz, Tasha was born deaf and makes a point of not hiding her cochlear hearing implant referring to it as her Superpower, although she has overcome significant challenges to reach this point …As well as being a smoking hot beauty an...
Nov 05, 2022•46 min
Join Amanda Wakeley as she is joined by a different celebrity guest each week as she uncovers their very own Style DNA. This week's guest is Adjoa Andoh - HonFRSL The British Actor. On stage, she has played lead roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre and the Almeida Theatre. On television, she has appeared in Doctor Who, Casualty, and BBC's EastEnders. Andoh made her Hollywood debut in autumn 2009, starring as Nelson Mandela's Chief of Staff Brend...
Oct 28, 2022•50 min
Join Amanda Wakeley as she is joined by a different celebrity guest each week as she uncovers their very own Style DNA. This week's guest is Sophie Ellis Bextor – Multi Award Winning Singer, Songwriter, Mother, Author, Podcaster … Sophie warmly shares stories of her passion for vintage clothing, how she styles herself (often only hours before a performance), dressing for her different roles in life, she is the mother of 5 boys, as well as her legendary pop career … During Lockdown she performed ...
Oct 21, 2022•42 min
Join Amanda Wakeley as she is joined by a different celebrity guest each week as she uncovers their very own Style DNA. This week's guest is Dr Ateh Jewel, beauty journalist, broadcaster, entrepreneur and diversity advocate…Ateh is also a regular beauty contributor on ITVs This Morning and her incredible energy and positivity is simply magnetic. She talks about the challenges of growing up in central London experiencing “both sides of the coin”, her teenage clubbing style …the power of a Chanel ...
Oct 14, 2022•37 min
Join Amanda Wakeley as she is joined by a different celebrity guest each week as she uncovers their very own Style DNA. This week's guest is Grace Dent, broadcaster, author & columnist. Grace has written weekly columns for The Independent and The London Evening Standard until she took on the revered role of restaurant critic for The Guardian, for which she won the Guild of Food Writers' Food Writing Award 2019.In October 2020, HarperCollins published Grace's memoir Hungry, a book for people ...
Oct 07, 2022•49 min
Join Amanda Wakeley as she is joined by a different celebrity guest each week as she uncovers their very own Style DNA. This week's guest is Trinny Woodall, founder and CEO of Makeup and Beauty Brand Trinny London which she founded in her early 50s…The inimitable Trinny inspires and entertains her 1.2m Instagram followers with personal makeup tutorials and styling advice. Having made over over 5,000 women in her TV career co-presenting What Not To Wear with Susannah Constantine and then Trinny a...
Sep 30, 2022•44 min
Join Amanda Wakeley as she is joined by a different celebrity guest each week as she uncovers their very own Style DNA. Guests including Trinny Woodall, James Blunt, Sophie Ellis-Bextor talk about their best and worst fashion moments as well as answering the question, 'What Do They Wear In Bed?'. New episodes every Saturday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 26, 2022•2 min
