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From school dinners to sofa snacks – food has a huge part to play in shaping our story - and your favourite celebs have some delicious tales to tell. Join Grace Dent and celebrity guests as she throws the cupboard doors open and chats life through food. Expect to hear from guests (actors from TV, movie, theatre and film; sportspeople, comedians, chefs…) such as: Katie Price, Jamie Laing, Natalie Cassidy, Kathy Burke, Jon Ronson, Shirley Ballas, Nadiya Hussain, James Norton, Graham Norton, Ja ...
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In this week's episode, Rye + Sarah dive into the personal and professional dynamics of work—exploring how we can advocate for ourselves, set boundaries, and take care of our well-being through self care mastery, while also calling on employers to adapt to the modern workforce. From flexible work environments to addressing the needs of a multi-gene…
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Bafta-award winning actor Monica Dolan shares her ultimate comfort food with Grace. Known for playing cardigan-wearing villains, Monica has been described as one of the greatest actors of her generation. She talks about the hell of Covid shopping, how to play a serial killer, and how a weekly Irish stew held her family together during childhood. If…
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Funny guy Phil Wang joins Grace this week for another helping of Comfort Eating. Phil has a textbook comedy career: president of Footlights at Cambridge University, graduating with agents sniffing at his heels; sell-out Edinburgh shows; and now purveyor of two Netflix comedy specials. Phil and Grace talk about how to supermarket shop with crocodile…
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Our guest this week is Kelly Smith, a global yoga and meditation teacher, author, founder of Yoga For You, and the host of the iTunes chart-topping podcasts "Mindful in Minutes" and "Meditation Mama." Kelly is best known for her guided meditation, yoga nidra, and restorative yoga practices that she has been sharing since 2016 on her podcasts and bo…
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Grace is joined by broadcasting legend Vanessa Feltz. From BBC breakfast to BBC London to LBC, she has graced our airwaves – and our TV screens – since the late 80s. Grace and Vanessa take a trip down memory lane to discuss her granny’s secret Jewish recipes she’ll never pass on, her mother’s ‘bombe surprise’ pudding, and how being in the public ey…
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This week on Comfort Eating, Grace is joined by one of the most successful and enduring film stars of the past 40 years: Richard E Grant. The Swaziland-born English actor made his film debut as Withnail in the comedy Withnail and I, and has since starred in the likes of Star Wars, Gosford Park and Saltburn. Richard and Grace chew over the food he a…
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In this juicy episode, Jess is sitting down with her friend Tanya Jane who helps high achieving women turn ‘impossible’ dreams into the new normal! The ladies chat all things: -Tanya’s story going from being a broke professional dancer to manifesting her dream job, making more money than ever before and driving a brand new Mercedes! -How Tanya had …
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TV presenter Rob Rinder joins Grace in her east London home to share his comfort food. Rob has been on our TV screens for a decade as Judge Rinder on the hit ITV show and, more recently, making documentaries. His 2020 BBC documentary My Family, The Holocaust and Me, about his Jewish heritage, garnered him an MBE for services to Holocaust education …
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Joining Grace for a big serving of Comfort Eating is Bafta nominated actress Leila Farzad. Leila is best known for her performance alongside Billie Piper in I Hate Suzie, her Netflix hit show KAOS, and is set to star in the next Bridget Jones film. Grace and Leila ruminate on the moot question of batter versus breadcrumbs, travel back to the Iran o…
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This week, Rye & Jess are sharing some big life and health updates, including finding and removing mold, moving, pup parenting, managing chronic headaches/migraines & launching a membership! RESOURCES MENTIONED: MYCOTOXIN TEST By vibrant wellness (ordered through Functional Practitioner, Tiffany Kaloustian): https://embracingthedance.wellproz.com/p…
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Maisie Adam joins Grace in her east London home to share her ultimate comfort food. Maisie is a comedian, writer and actress and one of the most exciting rising stars on the UK comedy circuit. Her critically acclaimed comedy sells out theatres across the land, and has bagged her a regular spot on the TV quiz show circuit. Maisie shares memories of …
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We want to hear from YOU! In this episode, we're sharing a SUPER SHORT survey to fill out (link below), giving feedback on your favorite content length + type, and you'll be entered to win 4 AWESOME PRIZES. ANSWER OUR SHORT SURVEY >> https://forms.gle/vq9AXWJppY3iWSuF9 PRIZES YOU'LL BE ENTERED TO WIN: 1:1 health/mindset coaching session with Jess S…
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Rag’n’Bone Man joins Grace for a new serving of Comfort Eating. Rag’n’Bone Man, AKA Rory Graham, shot to fame in 2016 with his song Human. A couple of albums later, he’s collaborated with an incredible roster of stars, from Gorillaz to P!nk, and his back catalogue has been streamed billions of times. He and Grace discuss how oven chips are always e…
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In this value packed episode, Jess is breaking down her top tips for how to travel and order out with confidence! After 12 years of yo-yo dieting, Jess finally broke free from her all-or-nothing mentality and found a way to maintain a 45LB weight loss without giving up the things she LOVED...like eating out, traveling and enjoying delicious food an…
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating, double Bafta winner Big Zuu goes round to Grace’s house for a plate of his ultimate comfort food. They talk about his ‘scandalous’ mother, growing up between extreme wealth and poverty, and …
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In this vulnerable episode, Rye reflects on her health challenges over the past 10 years, including hormone imbalances, birth control challenges, SIBO, sleep/anxiety medication addiction, candida overgrowth / recurring yeast, mold exposure, high stress, burnout, and the ups and downs of embryo freezing! RESOURCES SHARED IN THIS EPISODE: SUPPLEMENTS…
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating, Eastenders actor and all-round hun Natalie Cassidy pops over for a chat with Grace. She and Grace remember the 90s London club scene, discuss the perils of having a fitness DVD, and how bein…
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating with Grace Dent, comedian Nish Kumar tells Grace about some of the most important moments in his life – and the comfort food that saw him through them. They lament the ‘golden years’ of Pizza…
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In this fun and juicy episode Jess sits down with host of the Manifest Daily Podcast, Dheandra Nicolette! Whether you're a seasoned manifester or a bit of a skeptic, this is for YOU! In this episode the ladies chat: -How Dheandra first encountered manifestation and things she has brought into fruition using this practice! -What manifestation really…
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating, the pop star Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem, drops into Grace’s kitchen. Their riotous afternoon includes ‘northern women eating carbs’, the joy of buying expensive jumpers, and some u…
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This week, Grace takes us on a trip down memory lane to hear some of the best bite-sized tidbits of food tales from seven glorious seasons of Comfort Eating, featuring the likes of Rafe Spall, Scarlett Moffatt and Russell T Davies. We hear the stories of Jay Blades’ school pudding obsession and Russell Tovey’s teenage love of brussels sprouts, and …
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Are you familiar with Ayurveda? Ayurvedic Practitioner/Herbalist, Laura Croyt introduces us to one of the world's oldest medical systems, known for centuries to support individuals with a variety of health symptoms and concerns! During this conversation we talk about: The origins of Ayurvedic medicine and a few key reasons it's less known, compared…
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This week, Grace is joined by east London’s plant-based princess Bimini who shot to fame in 2021, after the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, where they captivated the BBC audience with quippy one liners, high fashion runway looks, and death drops. Although Bimini didn’t snatch the crown, they remain the most-followed UK contestant. Since fil…
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Grace welcomes the legendary DJ, producer and founder of Soul II Soul, Jazzie B, to the podcast. Over a bowl of ‘yellow’ – one of his childhood comfort foods –Jazzie takes Grace on a journey from playing his sound system, aged 12, at a silver jubilee street party for the Queen, to finding inspiration on tour in Japan and Korea, and on to Buckingham…
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In this week's sister solo episode, Rye and Jess check in to share their favorite summer habits including their favorite meals and snacks, current exercise practices and specific ways they are working on developing mental toughness. They also discuss: ways to become more motivated with exercise, strategies for better workouts and ideal hormone supp…
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Joining Grace this week is actor and director David Harewood, who found global fame in the hit CIA-thriller Homeland 13 years ago and hasn’t stopped working since. David was born and raised in Small Heath, Birmingham, where he lived with his older siblings and Barbadian parents. He tells Grace about how his mum kept the flavours of the West Indies …
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Allan Mustafa joins Grace to share the dish he turns to for comfort food. Allan shot to fame playing MC Grindah in People Just Do Nothing, his Bafta award-winning, semi-autobiographical mockumentary, which was inspired by his early life in south-west London. Allan talks about growing up with his Czech mum and Kurdish dad and eating the ultimate fus…
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We are back with part 2 of our solo episode: "What's Your $ Story? Jess and Rye Share Early Life Experiences that Changed their Habits and Relationship with Money, and HOW to Rewire the Brain for a Healthier Money Mindset!" So if you haven’t listened to that episode yet, consider starting there first and come back for this follow up! In this mini-s…
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Actor Golda Rosheuvel joins Grace this week to share what she eats when the wigs are off. Golda is best known for her role as the formidable Queen Charlotte in the record-breaking Netflix series Bridgerton. Before Bridgerton fame, Golda’s breakthrough role was playing a female Othello at the Liverpool Everyman, rooting herself as an actor who chall…
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Rye + Jess are back for another sister chat, and this time it’s all about MONEY! In this fun solo episode, they discuss early life experiences with $ that informed their relationship & habits around it…PLUS: how they’re rewiring their brains to create a healthier money mindset and create a NEW “money story”… But most importantly: they’re sharing wh…
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Joining Grace this week is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed comics and host of the award-winning podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me, Joanne McNally. With a number of sell-out shows and tour dates in the US later this year, they discuss how Joanne uses comedy to process difficult periods in her life, how her mum is her favourite cocktail buddy, and what…
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Katherine Ryan joins Grace this week to share her favourite comfort foods. The Canadian comedian, writer, presenter and actor is best known for her deliciously wicked comedy, delivered with a side dish of couture. Katherine shares memories from her past, including her father’s attempts to bring Indian food to Canada via Ireland, her difficult early…
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Jess is sitting down for her FIRST in person interview since circa 2019! She chats with Marley Rose Harris who is a money & manifestation coach and queen of all things mindset and subconscious reprogramming. In this episode the ladies chat: Marley’s story from “rock bottom” to thriving and her amazing transformation (in business, wealth, body and m…
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Welcome back! Our guest today is Arielle Moody, founder of Mama Sol, an innovative, multi purpose mineral sun care brand! Arielle has spent the entirety of her adult life immersed in the beauty industry. From her early days working on the beauty sales floor as a trainer for brands like Smashbox and Bite Beauty and then working as head of Product De…
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This week Jess introduces her “Mind to Body” Reset challenge, involving regular journaling exercises tohelp participants break through limiting beliefs keeping them from what they most desire in life! Rye shares her experience doing the journaling exercises, and Jess provides on-air coaching to help Rye get to the root of some of the insecurities s…
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Sitting down this week with Amanda Butler who is a fitness professional and breast cancer survivor! This is a heartfelt, REAL and empowering conversation in which the ladies discuss: -Amanda’s upbringing and what brought her into the fitness space, going on to become a Pop Sugar Fitness and Amazon Halo instructor (to name a few)! -Getting a breast …
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Joining Grace this week is the multi-talented actor, comedian and rapper, Kiell Smith-Bynoe. Long before becoming a household name as the exasperated boyfriend in the hit series Ghosts, Kiell (AKA MC Klayze Flaymz) tells Grace how, as a teenager, he combined his performance skills in the ultimate London arena: the chicken shop. With the taste of su…
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In this week's episode, Rye interviews Kyle McAvoy, who has been a nurse practitioner for over 32 years and is passionate about helping women of all ages and backgrounds achieve hormone balance and health-related goals. Originally from New York, Kyle moved west after completing her BA in French. She then decided her other passion was health and wel…
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Welsh standup, podcast host and panel show queen, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, brings her finest bowl of scran to Grace’s house. Over this steaming ultra-value concoction, she reveals how her upbringing on a Welsh sheep farm led to a hankering for performance, humour and cheap noodles. Cutting her teeth on the Manchester comedy circuit and finding solace…
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Comfort Eating’s culinary standards might have been permanently raised after two-Michelin-star chef Tom Kerridge’s visit. But he’s not exactly one to show off. Growing up in Gloucester, Tom always wanted to recreate the homely meals he’d find at his local pub or at his mum’s on Sundays. With a brief detour on to the acting stage, Tom started his ca…
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In this episode, Jess is sitting down with her soulmate client Felicia Riesel to chat all things: Felicia’s upbringing and early childhood memories Hormonal and body image changes she experienced throughout the years Her life changing experience working with a functional medicine doctor for the first time Hormonal shifts before and after childbirth…
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Platinum-selling singer songwriter Cat Burns cosies up with Grace for a warm plate of nosh and some deep chats. The biggest-selling British female artist of 2022, who won three Brit award nominations after her single Go went viral on TikTok, reveals how she went from shy schoolgirl to stadium gigs in just a few years. While Covid put an end to busk…
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Sliding into Grace’s sitting room this week is rising star and multitalented comedian, playwright and musical theatre creator, Daniel Foxx. Bringing his concoction of gunk meant only for solo consumption in the small hours, there’s nowhere left to hide. Buckle up and join Grace and Daniel as they go on a tour of the ins and outs of life in the fast…
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In this episode, Jess is catching up with Autumn Weimann who is an instagram influencer turned endometriosis awareness advocate and founder of the clean hair brand, Bangin' Hair! In this episode the ladies discuss: Autumn’s 16 year journey with painful and at time, debilitating periods Her experience on hormonal birth control and why she made the d…
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It’s tough presenting BBC radio’s top morning news programme, hosting the nation’s brainiest quiz show and being a devoted dad to four young children. But someone’s got to do it. And that person is none other than the broadcaster Amol Rajan. Having risen through the ranks of the Independent newspaper to be its youngest editor at the age of 29 and n…
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Dropping by this week for a spot of comfort eating is the legendary glamour model turned reality TV star, Katie Price. One of the most photographed and filmed women of our times, splashed across page 3 and lads mags as Jordan 30 years ago, then in six of her own TV series, multiple documentaries and reality shows, everyone thinks they know her. But…
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This week, the world learned of the sad passing of a true British icon, TV cook and hairy biker, Dave Myers. To celebrate his life, we wanted to bring you this episode from January 2022 where Dave tells Grace about – ironically – losing all his hair aged eight, his years as a makeup artist, working in the steelyards of Barrow-in-Furness, and the co…
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