Oh dear oh dear! Our second dance went down like a cup of cold tea! While everyone else shimmied and smouldered, we did Line Dancing with such a huge crowd of backing dancers that you couldn’t even see us! Our one big moment of jumping backwards off our platform and crowd surfing was completely lost by the strange sideways camera …
Stepping Out – Week 1
Oh my goodness, that was such an adrenalin rush on Saturday night doing the tango with my husband LIVE on television! My husband, who seemed to go into a funk the day before with his attention span plummeting to below zero, a swollen foot that caused him to limp when walking never mind dancing and an attitude that can only be …
Stepping Out – Lead up to Week 1
So the time has finally arrived! After 5 weeks of dancing, falling over, sprained limbs, muscle spasms, bruises, physio, icing, frustration, excitement, anticipation and sheer terror, there is nowhere left to hide! It’s dance time! We’ve had a lot of fun with all the other couples. There’s a great sense of camaraderie and whilst a certain amount of competitiveness is …
The Secret is Revealed – We are Stepping Out
It’s such a relief to finally be able to talk about my “secret project” which I have known about for months. What has possessed us to partake of a show that requires us to dance together knowing that at least one of us can’t dance at all (guess which one??)? We keep looking at each other and saying “why are …
Dempsey and Makepeace ‘nutters’ follow stars to Dundee Rep
Last week I got to share a stage for the first time with my husband. And lovely it was too! However, it was the arrival of fans from all over the world that garnered the most attention. There were articles in the paper on a daily basis about it. Dundee did not know what had hit it! A group of …
All Star Mr & Mrs
Last Saturday saw my husband, Michael Brandon, and myself at ITV studios filming All Star Mr & Mrs! We weren’t entirely sure if this was a good idea to be honest. We had a feeling it would end in one extreme or the other. Complete humiliation that after many years of marriage we would have to admit to the nation …
QVC & Filming
Had great fun at QVC on the 2nd March. Party atmosphere thanks to John Barrowman livening up proceedings and Howard and I thrilled that our Yoga Secrets DVD was a sell out. Looking forward to doing more! Got to film with the charming Brendan Gleeson on All you need is Kill. I was a mere cog in …
Woman and Home
Here I am in March edition of Woman & Home. Had a fun time with all the lovely people there. The shoot itself literally took 10 minutes (the quicker the better I say) and I was beside myself with excitement that I got to wear jewellery from my favourite shop Van Peterson!
I meet Margo Marrone from The Organic Pharmacy
I was really excited to meet Margo Marrone and her husband Franco who started one of my favourite places, The Organic Pharmacy. I loved that you could drop in and have a homeopathic medicine made up on the spot and that you could chat with the homeopath or chemist on duty about any ailments and come away with all kinds …
My day on QVC
The 1st January saw me on QVC with my Yoga DVD! It’s always a bit nerve wracking doing something for the first time but I was wonderfully supported by my favourite yoga teacher Howard Napper, my partner on the DVD. We actually had a hoot with all the other people who were on the same hour as us. Leading the …
Deal or No Deal
Michael and I were delighted to open boxes for the fabulous Joan Collins on Celebrity Deal or No Deal. Her chosen charity was Shooting Stars Chase Children’s Hospice which is a truly wonderful organisation. They have to raise millions of pounds every year to keep going and need all the help they can get. There was lots of help on …
