I arrive at Victoria sweating like a Good Morning Britain producer after Richard Madeley’s done a 6am swear and then gone full Partridge while conducting an interview with a woman’s breasts. After half an hour on the underground I’m hot enough to sauté scallops under my armpits, and at this point it occurs to me…
“My week as Michelle Mone”
“I feel underdressed!” says leading life coach Carole Ann Rice as she takes in my rose-gold sequined Goddiva evening gown which hugs my figure while its fishtail hem flirts seductively with the floor. It is 11am and I am meeting Carole Ann for a coaching session, as part of my plan to become as successful…
Anger management: how flipping tyres will help you chill
The new year is meant to signal the start of a “new you” but when Bacardi’s still crashing through your veins, and you’re sweating pure stollen, you feel less like trying Tai Chi and more like punching people in the back of the head as your waistband crushes your inner organs. So it’s perhaps perfect…
It zaps fat and increases productivity – but what is a ‘standing desk’ actually like?
“You can’t be too rich or too thin!” declared Wallis Simpson, the femme fatale who tempted King Edward off the throne and into the registry office. Draped in Dior and diamonds, and trailed by a harem of husbands, Simpson is an absolute legend. If there was a LADbible for ladies in the 1930s – a…
Confession: I made a public stand against regifting – but I didn’t quite tell the whole story
“If your Christmas spirit is on a par with Trump’s, you need to take a long hard look at yourself!” I declare on BBC Essex. I’ve been invited on to talk about regifting, after a revelation by Donald Trump Jr. that his father once regifted him the Christmas present he’d given him the year before.…
Fresh air, family spirit and scenes worthy of the Edinburgh Fringe: why I won’t be joining a gym this January
“Guys, I shall be holding a Christmas circuit training bootcamp every morning in the garden. It will take place in the small window of time between my lie-in and my midday drinking.” This is the announcement I send to my siblings via the family “Christmassssss” WhatsApp group, before our descent to Kent for a week…