Tea With Twiggy

Molly Ringwald is an American actress, author and translator. She was cast in her first major role as "Molly" in the sitcom The Facts of Life after a casting director saw her playing an orphan in a stage production of the musical Annie. She made her film debut as Miranda in the independent film Tempest (1982), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year. Molly is perhaps be...

Jim Carter, OBE is an English film and television actor. He is best known for his role in Downton Abbey (2010–2015) playing Mr Carson, a role that has earned him four nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2012–2015). He reprised his role in the feature film Downton Abbey (2019). Jim's film credits include A Private Function (1984), A Month in...

Sir Derek Jacobi is an English actor and stage director. Jacobi has enjoyed a successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, and Oedipus the King. He has twice been awarded a Laurence Olivier Award, first for his performance of the eponymous hero in Cyrano de Bergerac in 1983 and the second for his Malvolio in Twelfth Night in 2009. He also received a Tony Awa...

Dame Emma Thompson DBE is a British actress, screenwriter, activist, author and comedian. She is one of Britain's most acclaimed actresses and is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, three BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Thompson was educated at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, where she became a member of the Footlights trou...

Dexter Fletcher is an English actor and director. He has appeared in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and the crime comedy Smoking Guns, as well as in television shows such as the comedy-drama Hotel Babylon, the HBO series Band of Brothers and, earlier in his career, the children's show Press Gang. He was also in the film Bugsy Malone. Fletcher made his directorial debut with Wild...

Imelda Staunton, CBE is an English actress and singer. After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Staunton began her career in repertory theatre in the 1970s before appearing in various theatre productions in the United Kingdom. Imelda has performed in a variety of plays and musicals in London, winning four Olivier Awards; three for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in the plays In...

Peter Asher, is an English guitarist, singer, manager and record producer. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the pop music vocal duo Peter and Gordon before going on to a successful career as a manager and record producer. As of 2018, he tours alongside Jeremy Clyde of Chad and Jeremy in a new duo entitled Peter and Jeremy, where they perform hits from both of their respective cata...

Lipman was born in Hull, East Yorkshire, England, the daughter of Maurice Julius Lipman and Zelma Pearlman. She attended Newland School for Girls in Hull, and became interested in performing as a youth; Lipman performed in school shows. Her first performances at home included impersonations of Alma Cogan; and was encouraged into an acting career by her mother, who used to take her to the pantomime...

Matthew Williamson is a British fashion, lifestyle and interior designer known for his use of bold, colourful and carefully constructed designs. He was born in Manchester and studied in Loreto College until he was 17 years old. He then moved to London to attend school at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design. His eponymous fashion house was founded in February 1997. The same year, he de...

Charlotte Tilbury MBE is a British make-up artist, founder, chairperson, president and chief creative officer of her eponymous makeup and skincare brand, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty Ltd, and is a British Vogue Contributing Beauty Editor and Global Ambassador for Women for Women International. The music for the podcast is Twiggy's version of "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks and can be found on Apple Mus...

Richard Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. His self-titled debut album went triple-platinum in 1987, and his first single, "Don’t Mean Nothing", reached number three in the charts. Between 1987 and 1994, he had 14 Top 20 hits, including three number one singles; his first seven singles all reached the Top Five. His singles during...

Judy Craymer is a producer of musical theatre who has also worked extensively in the film, television and music industries. Judy has achieved international popular success in musical theatre, in particular her work on Mamma Mia!, which has been seen by more than 60 million people worldwide. Ten years after the film adaptation grossed more than $600 million around the world, Craymer produced an all...

Ronnie Wood is an English musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, artist, author and radio personality best known as a member of the Rolling Stones since 1975, as well as a member of Faces and the Jeff Beck Group. Wood began his career in 1964, when he joined the Birds group the Creation for a short time. He joined the Jeff Beck Group in 1967 as a bass player. The group split in 1969, and Woo...

Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, best known as Lulu, is a Scottish singer, actress, television personality and businesswoman. She is noted for her powerful singing voice. She is internationally known, but especially by UK audiences in the 1960s. Later in her career she had hits internationally with "To Sir with Love" from the 1967 film of the same name and with the title song to the 1974 James Bond film The M...

Lenny’s work stretches from classical theatre to arena tours, music to film, Comic Relief to studying a PhD on the role of people of colour in the media. He continues to balance comedy, drama, activism and entertainment on radio, TV and live. Since bursting onto our screens as winner of New Faces, Sir Lenny Henry has been firmly established as one Britain’s most well known comedians. From Tiswas t...

Britain’s best-loved gardener Alan Titchmarsh is the definitive voice on all things botanical. Not only an expert gardener and horticulturalist, Alan is well known for his illustrious success as a journalist, author, presenter and television personality. The recipient of four honorary degrees, he holds the title of Vice-President of the Royal Horticultural Society and has been awarded a Victoria M...

Fran Drescher is an American actress, producer, writer and comedian, best known for her brilliant New York accent and starring role in the TV sitcom The Nanny. Since appearing in Saturday Night Fever, she has starred in several Hollywood films, penned two books and founded the Cancer Awareness Group, Cancer Schmancer. Born Francine Joy Drescher in Flushing, Queens, Fran Drescher has had an affinit...

Praised by the New York Times for his “genuine originality,” Rufus Wainwright has established himself as one of the great male vocalists and songwriters of his generation. The New York-born, Montreal-raised singer songwriter has released countless studio albums, three DVDs, and three live albums, including the fantastic Grammy nominated Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall, which captured his celebrat...

Phil Rosenthal found success as the creator and Executive Producer of “Everybody Loves Raymond.” He is currently host and creator of Netflix’s “Somebody Feed Phil,” an unscripted documentary series on Netflix, which combines his love of food and travel with his unique brand of humour. As host and creator of “Somebody Feed Phil”, Phil Rosenthal travels the world with unbridled curiosity in search o...

Amy Wadge is a Grammy-winning English singer and songwriter. She has co-written with numerous artists including Janelle Monáe, James Blunt, Labrinth, Niall Horan, Dua Lipa and Jessie Ware, to name just a few. She is best known for her long standing writing partnership with Ed Sheeran, most notably on the US and UK number one ‘Thinking Out Loud’, from the triple Grammy-nominated album ‘X’. Born on...

Christopher Kenneth Biggins is an English actor and television presenter. He is best known for his role as Lukewarm in the BBC sitcom Porridge, one of the most famous British comedy series starring Ronnie Barker. Born on 16th December 1948 in Oldham in Lancashire, Christopher was raised in Salisbury in Wiltshire. He started his training at Salisbury Repertory Theatre and later at Bristol Old Vic a...

Robert Lindsay is a stage and TV actor, best known for his role as Ben Harper in My Family, a role he played for over a decade. After leaving school, Lindsey studied drama at Clarendon College in Nottingham, intending to become a drama teacher, however friends encouraged him to apply to RADA, which he did and was accepted. He rose to prominence as Jakey Smith in ITV comedy series Get Some In! (197...

Elaine Paige joins Twiggy today for a cup of Tea! Elaine Paige OBE (born 5 March 1948) is a singer and actress, best known for her work in musical theatre. Elaine attended the Aida Foster Theatre School, making her first professional appearance on stage in 1964, at the age of 16. Her appearance in the 1968 production of Hair marked her West End debut. Elaine was selected to play Eva Perón in the f...

Gyles Brandreth joins Twiggy today for a cup of Tea! Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster, actor, former MP and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, now Chancellor of the University of Chester and one of Britain's most loved public figures. A star of Celebrity Gogglebox, a veteran of QI and Have I Got News For You, a reporter on The One Show and a regular on Just a Minute, his many books include...

Lynda LaPlante joins Twiggy today for a cup of Tea! Born and brought up in Liverpool, Lynda trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). After finishing her studies, and using the stage name Lynda Marchal, she appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in a variety of productions, as well as securing roles in popular television series, such as Z-Cars, The Sweeney, The Profes...