After my spell of dancing on Stepping Out, I found myself nursing a number of injuries. A swollen knee, that was quite inflamed being the main culprit. Ibuprofin is always what the doctor or physiotherapist will suggest, but nature has it’s own highly beneficial version that not only helps get rid of inflammation but has a load of other benefits …
About 7 years ago a friend sent me to see a friend of hers who had just opened a skin clinic in Los Angeles. The incentive to go was that apparently she was setting out to get great results by using as natural methods as possible. And so I met Dr. Julia Hunter for the first time. There was an …
I love exfoliating! There I’ve said it. It all started when I had spotty skin in my youth and after trying all kinds of things unsuccessfully to improve it, it was some thick rough washing grains that seemed to do the trick. I also believe that exfoliating the entire body is hugely beneficial! Anyone who does self tanning knows that …
Stress is probably one of the most ageing things there is. Just look at presidents and prime ministers when they take office with shiny hair and optimistic faces and cut to 5 or so years down the line and there is a grey haired haggard looking individual. It can also take a serious toll on health. Here we have a …
Is staying younger really possible? Is it all just a desperate and ultimately futile attempt to hold back the years? Ageing chronologically is inevitable, but being “old” I believe is something we can most definitely do something about. Being older can be very positive. With age comes experience, wisdom, confidence and less agonising (hopefully) over the little stuff, caring less …
Posing for this stunning picture as they step out for a new TV dance contest, Dempsey And Makepeace’s Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber reveal why their unlikely showbiz marriage has lasted against the odds A Daily Mail Article by Jenny Johnston
We cha cha cha’d, we shook our booty, we danced ourselves into a frenzy but……failed to impress the judges! Wayne Sleep was lovely and fair as ever but the others seemed to have it in for my man! They gave him no credit whatever in learning a very fast and furious dance in 4 days! They threw insults at him …
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 …
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 …
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 lovely story I posted the other week by my dear friend Annie, growing tomatoes in the heart of Beverly Hills, has ended in tears. Annie was in London for a day or 2 and relayed the story of…duh duh duh…the squirrel from hell! So here is Part 2…a sorry tale of woe and crushed dreams…and nicked tomatoes! (If you …
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 …
