A house tour with Sophie Ellis Bextor

A treat for you this week as Sophie and I actually got out of our duvet dens to meet and record the podcast in person and we were thrilled to be able to tour round the home of Sophie Ellis Bextor, who lives with her husband, Richard Jones, also a musician, and their five sons. Sophie, for those of you may not know was also labelled as "the woman from lockdown kitchen disco" by the BBC (charming!) and for those of you who didn't see her joyful instagram kitchen concerts, she has had a string of hits, seven albums, a very successful spin on Strictly Come Dancing and, well if that's not ringing any bells her Mum is Janet Ellis who was a Blue Peter presenter between 1979 and 1987.

home of sophie ellis bextor image by kate watson-smyth

So come on in and of course we have to start in the kitchen - familiar to so many as the place where Sophie dressed up in sequins and heels and hosted a virtual disco for anyone who wanted to watch on instagram while deftly manoeuvring round a crawling Mickey…