What's My Age Again?

In the first of our bonus episodes ‘What’s YOUR Age Again?’, Dr Nichola Conlon takes your questions about biological age.  It’s an extra episode while we’re working on Season 2 to find out what you want to know about longevity.   In this podcast we hear from Holly – she wants to know how being overweight impacts on biological age.  New mum Alice isn’t getting much sleep at the momen...

Adam Buxton is 56 years old and says he’ll be happy if the result comes in at anything under 65.  Reduced stress and life in the country with his loving family and dog should be reflected in the result and he’s hoping recent improvements in his diet and lifestyle will bode well.   He talks to Katherine about his split from his comedy wife Joe Cornish, how going to boarding scho...

(WARNING: This episode includes strong language and sexual references which some people might find offensive)     Michelle de Swarte began smoking cannabis from a young age and while working as a model in New York and London did ALOT of recreational drugs.    She’s now 44 and working as a successful writer and comedian and tells Katherine she has replaced the cla...

Dame Denise Lewis is 52 but feels much younger and says if her biological age is any higher than 38  - she’ll sprint out of the studio in a strop.    She’s an Olympic Gold winner, a mum of 4 and now heads up UK Athletics which promotes young talent looking to represent the country.  She’s a high achieving woman, at home and and at work but says, over the years, she’s learn...

Alastair Campbell co-hosts the UK’s most successful podcast, The Rest is Politics and a huge percentage of the audience is under thirty.  He tells Katherine why he thinks he still appeals to the young.      He’s 68 but he’s hoping his biological age will be 21.  If it’s not, he’s calling for a recount or an overhaul of the system!    His kids keep him feelin...

John and Edward Grimes burst on to the scene in 2009 as a phenomenon on X-Factor, and have been a mainstay on the showbiz scene ever since. TV, movies, Eurovision: no one can escape this Irish duo's j-epic brand of entertainment. But what impact has more than 15 years of fame had on the boys as they became men? Their care-free, feel-good attitude is synonymous with the Jedward brand, but...

Katie Price says she’s in a better place than she’s ever been and at the age of 47 is finally fully in control of how she lives her life.    She’s been in the public eye since she was 18 years old and with sexual assault, 3 kidnap attempts and a hijack at gun point in South Africa she’s had way more than her fair share of trauma. In this hugely open and emotional interview, she talks to...

Sheila Hancock tells Katherine that since turning ninety she’s been treated differently and says you have to battle against the limitations that society puts on you as you age.   Born in 1933, Sheila has been on our stage and screen for 70 years but in latter years has been best known for her writing.  She says the global political atmosphere now is reminiscent of the years before  ...

  Sophie is in her mid forties and says she’s finally shed her inner critic and found a new power. She tells Katherine she’s more confident on stage now than she ever was in her twenties and says the resurgence of her hit single Murder on the Dance Floor has been wonderful and rejuvenating.     Her mother, Janet Ellis (famous for presenting Blue Peter in the 1970s) has taught her ho...

For anyone struggling with addiction, this is an inspiring and life affirming listen.    Katherine talks to the open and funny Bryony Gordon about how a former life of alcohol abuse, cocaine addiction and binge eating may have impacted on her biological age.  She shares the seediest sides of that life and how she’s overcome her demons with running, a loving family and a positiv...

At the age of 33, Olivia Attwood is the happiest she’s ever been but is she the heathiest?    Olivia first came into the public eye in full sun on Love Island and admits her attitude to sun health and work pressure could have been better.  Since then, whether it’s making documentaries or hosting a pod - she’s not been off our screens.  Will a professional life in full glar...

Jill’s first childhood memory is kicking a football, and she’s played sport all her life.  She’s 38 but how will elite sport have impacted on her body and her biological age? Will 16 years playing for England have taken its toll or kept her young and strong? Will she have to swop out the coffee for ginger tea?   She talks to Katherine about her childhood, her decision to retire and how b...

In this special episode of What’s My Age Again? Katherine reveals her own biological age.   She's asked all her guests to take the test so thought it was only fair that she did it too.      Katherine is clean living but she lives with Lupus, an auto-immune disease.  Will that impact on her result?  As always, Katherine’s joined by Dr Nichola Conlon, who...

Romesh Ranganathan is 47 but he thinks he’s heading for an early death.  His worries were triggered by a health test 8 years ago, the premature death of his father as well as the negative health outcomes for South and Southeast Asian men.  But in recent years he’s transformed his health.   Will he have done enough to improve his biological age?   He tells Katherine he...

Joanne McNally is an icon for single women who like white wine.    Pinotphile, her latest tour is as much like a hen do as it is a comedy gig but will life on the road have impacted on her biological age?  Have the excesses of single life aged her or kept her young?  But it’s not just laughs in this conversation.  Joanne talks to Katherine about meeting her biological...

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