Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 789 i Grazia

IN THE EARLY days of lockdown, we started a WhatsApp group with a number of readers so we could ask them about their daily fears, concerns and changing habits. It’s become an incredible community of women whose insight has helped shape the pages you read today – not least their views on the Great British high street (thanks to those who’ve taken part!). Hearing them talk about their ‘pick-me-up’ purchases and ‘re-entry’ outfits was a reminder that finding the perfect new addition for your wardrobe isn’t perfunctory – it’s often deeply emotional. And reading the stories of shopkeepers (page 40) shows the other side of the picture: local shops, crucial for our communities, are struggling. It’s in our interests we help them. Enjoy the issue. @hattie_brett / feedback@graziamagazine.co.uk PS The…

Keep dancing, Fatima, and follow your dream “You probably saw the recent iterations of the Government’s ‘Rethink. Reskill. Reboot’ campaign, which seemed to be encouraging people in the arts to consider a career change. The poster showed ballet dancer ‘Fatima’ with the caption, ‘Fatima’s next job could be in cyber. (She just doesn’t know it yet.)’ Thousands shared it on social media in rage; others posted parodies. We hope it didn’t encourage anyone in the arts to give up on their dream; great art, TV, film, music, dance and theatre (streamed to our devices) is what’s getting us through right now. The arts are vital and should be valued and protected so that, when all this is over, there’s a stage for people to return to.”…

1. New in JIN HA Plays Augie Jeong, on-off love interest for Anna Kendrick’s Darby Carter in the really very delicious Love Life (iPlayer); and a definite POLI (person of lustful interest) in his own right. 2. New in THE YOUNG OFFENDERS Knocking around since 2018, but we’ve only just discovered them, so chances are, lots of you haven’t yet. The joy, people! Tinged with sadness. And truth. And love. iPlayer; you’re welcome. 6. Non-mover TOM DALEY Showcasing the full range of his own knitwear on Instagram, including: a tea cosy, a poncho for his son, and an epic jumper for himself. Masterfully done. PHOTOS: GETTY,INSTAGRAM/IAMCARDIB, MADEWITHLOVEBYTOMDALEY 7. New in T’NIA MILLER Delivering strong work in Netflix’s The Haunting Of Bly Manor. We’re big fans of her jawline and her…

GLAMOUR HAS plummeted down the fashion agenda in 2020. It’s understandable; on some days we’ve barely mustered the energy to get dressed, never mind getting dressed up. But if you – like us – have been missing the fantasy of fashion, then now is your chance to lean into it once again. Following in the footsteps of Erdem, Versace and Moschino, The Vampire’s Wife is the latest name to join forces with H&M for a limited-edition designer collaboration. Excitement is understandably high. Since founding the brand in 2016, Susie Cave has catapulted the luxe prairie dress to the apex of the fashion zeitgeist, changing the landscape of after-dark dressing in the process. Taking its name from an abandoned novel by her husband Nick Cave (‘The name seems to be built…

IN RECENT WEEKS, the looming threat of a second nationwide lockdown has instigated an impossible juggling game as we wonder if our best-laid plans – holidays, weddings, even Christmas – could spin out of control at any given moment. Hollywood – with its shifting release dates and production schedules – is in similar turmoil: a single positive test can shut down a multimillion-dollar production. For Keira Knightley, it’s now emerged, this uncertainty has led her to withdraw from a much-anticipated TV project. Earlier this month, The Daily Mail reported that Keira had walked away from playing the lead role of Cora in The Essex Serpent, an Apple TV+ adaptation of Sarah Perry’s best-selling novel. The newspaper cited ‘family reasons’, with Keira’s representative stating that the move stemmed from the actor’s…

SHOPPING: TIM BROOKS. PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES DRIZZLY DAYS spent huddled in a train station as part of a twice-daily commute may not be something many of us have to worry about this winter but, with stricter lockdown measures across the country, chances are we’ll all be spending much more time in the great outdoors than usual. That is, if you want to see friends and extended family. And it seems we’re all dressing for the occasion, for the coats currently flying off the shelves aren’t the usual mix of styles – the best-selling outerwear is strictly practical. We’re talking puffer jackets, all-weather parkas and cosy duffels – all coats which very much put substance over style and ensure we’re all prepared for socialising al fresco. ‘The way our customers are…

Standing with women and girls means doing all we can to eradicate gender-based violence and to support those who have experienced it. We must stand with women to address the inequalities the pandemic has exposed and exacerbated. We must support their leadership, value their work, recognise the challenges they are facing and respect their rights. ActionAid is working to do this with their Stand With Women campaign. They are working with women to increase their economic independence and improve their ability to leave abusive relationships. Will you stand with women too? Please sign ActionAid’s petition asking the UK Government to protect women’s rights and help end violence against women and girls worldwide. To sign and find out more, visit actionaid.org.uk/grazia…

Alexis Carrington First enthralling us almost 40 years ago, Dynasty’s Alexis redefined the TV bitch, with her razor-sharp suits and cigarillos and her catfights with Krystle. Tanya Turner Cold, calculating and cocaine addicted, the Footballers’ Wives WAG’s finest hour was killing the club chairman – ‘shagging him to death’ with coke and Viagra. Cersei Lannister Game Of Thrones was full of villains, but Cersei was the most vengeful, from beheading a child’s pet wolf to arranging the death of her husband. Miss Piggy The diva-ish Muppet was, says creator Jim Henson, originally supposed to be ‘delicate and lovely’. Sylvie Grateau Her stare is withering, her lines the most pithy (When a colleague muses, ‘Smoking is a pleasure, and without pleasure, who are we?’ Sylvie replies, ‘German.’), and her outfits the…

‘I’M NOT A PHONE person.’ That’s an annoying sentence to be on the receiving end of, isn’t it? What does it even mean? Everyone is a phone person. Unless you own a Nokia 3210 or you are currently living off-grid in a yurt, you are guaranteed to spend a portion of your day on your phone. If you’re ‘not a phone person’, it means you’re someone who picks and chooses who they communicate with and how efficiently, depending on your mood. It is with deep regret that I disclose that I am a person who says they are not a phone person. My relationship with my phone is complicated – sporadic at best, negligent at worst. I dread turning it off airplane mode every morning, greeted by a flood of…

1 THE STRAIGHT JEANS IT REALLY IS TIME TO SHELVE THE SKINNY (TRUST US!) AND OPT FOR A RULER-LIKE LEG. KENYA HUNT FASHION DIRECTOR Denim (usually Levi’s), a crew-neck jumper and some kind of loud, jazzy earring is pretty much how I get through my work hours these days. I’ll add a blazer or bar jacket for the days when I have IRL meetings and opt for more relaxed, slouchier jeans on the days when I don’t. Very useful life hack: I always take my denim to a tailor to achieve the perfect fit. 2 THE MIDI SLIP SKIRT LET A FLUID SLIP SKIRT BECOME THE FLIRTATIOUS SIDE ORDER TO SENSIBLE JUMPERS AND JACKETS. LAURA ANTONIA JORDAN FASHION NEWS & FEATURES DIRECTOR Super easy midiskirts are my wardrobe staple, and…

PHOTOGRAPHS NADIA RYDER HAIR SYD HAYESSTYLING FENELLA WEBB ‘GONE ARE THE days of fashion brands asking us to uniformly style models’ hair so every girl looks the same,’ says Syd Hayes, BaByliss ambassador and the hair styling pro behind the looks you see here. ‘Take high-street giant Zara, for example. The brief on all of its recent shoots has been “natural”. They want the hair that the girl comes into the studio with, just slightly tweaked and enhanced with styling tools and products to get the most out of their natural style.’ This means, after far too long of doing the opposite, curls are no longer straightened to oblivion. Oh no, they’re crunched up with curl creams, they’re amped up with tongs and wands, they’re encouraged to be bigger and…

Emma ‘The versatility! I can have an Afro one day and the next wear it straight and long. Many traditional hairstyles have a history that stretches back millennia and yet still look cutting edge today. I love being able to express my cultural heritage in a way that is still very contemporary and full of meaning.’ Ruby ‘My hair is my crown. I have a lot of thick, healthy hair and I love how I can I style it depending on my mood. Those decisions make me feel empowered. As a make-up artist, I know how much a look can be changed by a hairstyle. My hair, my choice, my crown. Enjoy yours too.’…

Carina Lawson is a time management coach and founder of Ponderlily planners and journals; carinalawson.com It’s easy to plough on beyond office hours if your laptop is always in sight. This is how burnout happens and why you need boundaries. First, get yourself on-board. Think of the boundaries you want and why; this is the best way to actually stick to them. For instance, no looking at work emails after 6pm. Then present these boundaries to co-workers and family. Use tools to help you. An email signature stating the times you are available manages expectations. I also use the Boomerang app, which stops me looking at emails out of hours. You’ll need physical boundaries, too. Designate an area in which to work and stick to it; this trains your brain…

Laura Whateley, author of Money: A User’s Guide Victims of fraud tend to be elderly and vulnerable and not that hot on technology, right? Well, actually, research shows those in their twenties and thirties are most likely to be duped into handing over cash to criminals because of how complacent we are about sharing our details. We should be on guard. Fraudsters are exploiting Covid-19. Impersonation scams doubled in the first six months of 2020. They are a variation on a theme: someone contacts you posing as your bank, the police, or an official body like HMRC, scares you into thinking you’ve already been a victim of fraud, that you owe money or have money to claim, and manipulates you into handing over your bank details, or transferring cash into…

Have your say… Email us at feedback@graziamagazine.co.uk ■ Find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @GraziaUK STUDENT NEGLECT I read Confined to halls and £9K a year for an online degree (19 Oct) and thought of my sister who is in her first year of uni, living in student digs and receiving lessons online. She has already caught Covid-19 and is self-isolating. The university encourages students to be in halls or digs, obviously to help landlords out, but honestly, my sister would have been better at home, still doing her lessons online, for the time being at a reduced cost. Student welfare has been disregarded and unis are scrambling around to ensure they don’t lose money – meanwhile, the students they rely on for this income are being wilfully neglected.…

PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES IT IS WHILE READING a recentish report by the Office for National Statistics – which found that, far from being unified against the big C, the UK is now more divided than it has ever been; more, even, than in the darkest days of Brexit – that Mercury being retrograde blows up. Oh, chill: not literally . If Mercury were to blow up in one of those periods when, if viewed from the Earth it gives the impression of travelling backwards, an illusion assumed by some to bestow a spate of bad luck ’pon all humanity… Well. You’d have heard about it by now. It wouldn’t be me telling you, would it? No. It was an argument concerning the validity of that belief that blew up –…

SQUARE DEAL Patchwork is having a moment and this polo-neck jumper, with its spectrum of blues, is an easy entry point. £139, Whistles booty-licious A motorcycle boot that means business. I’m sold. £210, Vagabond SNUGGLY I’ve been spotting this shade of green everywhere – called ‘paradise’ at Les Girls Les Boys – and I’m hooked. Hoodie, £90, Les Girls Les Boys stripe hype I hate football. I do, however, have a fondness for football scarves. In place of any club insignia, this one is woven with the brand’s logo. £47, Daily Paper BRAIN FOOD Otegha Uwagba is a fearless communicator, writer and woman. Pre-order her book now. £6.99, Waterstones PULL THE RUG This patterned rug will cover up a multitude of (spill-related) sins. £270, La Redoute COLD COMFORT Heat, smeat.…

WHEN NICOLA ADAMS accepted her Olympic gold medal at London 2012, it was a groundbreaking moment. It was the first year that women were permitted to compete in the boxing ring, the final sport in the Olympics to dispense with men-only regulations. Now, she is making history again, as the first contestant in Strictly Come Dancing’s 16-year run to compete in a same-sex dance partnership. ‘They’ve asked me to be in Strictly a few times,’ Nicola tells Grazia over the phone. She is calling from her car – parked and punctured, and waiting for roadside assistance. ‘I hadn’t been able to do it in the past because of training commitments, but now I can give it a go. I like learning new things, and it would be cool to come…

It’s not often one can relate to an A-lister. But last week, when Keira Knightley cited childcare issues as the reason she has had to turn down a job, women everywhere recognised the challenge she faced as a working mum. The pandemic has intensified the domestic load already borne by women, reversing progress and causing some to pause or walk away from their careers. Many fear it is harming a generation of working mothers. Lottie Davidson* , 34, from Oxford, works at a top fashion brand. She is off work at the moment caring for her three-year-old daughter who has a brain tumour. Before the pandemic her daughter had carers, but because of Covid-19 restrictions they’re not able to visit any more. ‘Because I have to care for my daughter…

CHANEL THE NEW FROW MOSCHINO MIU MIU BALMAIN Welcome to the age of the socially distanced/virtual/filmed/streamed hybrid front row. At Balmain, 58 VIP attendees, including Anna Wintour, Derek Blasberg and Jennifer Lopez, logged in via a link that took them to their designated first, second and third row ‘seats’, their images broadcast live inside the show venue in Paris. Similarly, Miu Miu had Chloë Sevigny, Storm Reid, Gabrielle Union and other celebs video conference in. While Louis Vuitton sent invitations with virtual seat assignments to those of us who couldn’t travel to Paris due to Covid restrictions. But rather than broadcasting us watching them, Vuitton’s technology included a 360° camera; we moved our cursor around for a complete view of the room. Dior and Chanel, meanwhile, took the classic approach,…

FENDI ‘What does your avatar look like?’ is the new ‘What are you wearing?’ In lieu of shopping trips squeezed in-between showroom appointments, this season editors had fun dressing up their personalised avatars, created by Christian Louboutin as a part of his S/S ’21 presentation. The wave is the new air kiss All the better to show off a good statement sleeve, obviously ‘My link isn’t working’ is the new ‘I can’t find my car’ With few editors actually having travelled to cover fashion weeks this season, we were all left navigating countless URL links for one live-streamed show or another – rather than wandering, you know, outside in Milan or Paris in search of our transport to the next appointment. Masks are the new invite Victoria Beckham, Christopher Kane,…

HAIR: SYD HAYES AT ART AND COMMERCE USING BABYLISS. MODELS: LILOU LE SERGENT AT THE HIVE MANAGEMENT; ISABELLA MOLLOY AT MODELS 1; CINDY DOS REIS AT MILK MANAGEMENT; MADELEINE JABLONOWSKA AT ELITE. MAKE-UP: SHINOBU ABEUSING GUERLAIN. PRODUCTION: EMMA STODDART. BEAUTY EDITOR AND MODEL INTERVIEWS: ANNIE VISCHER. FASHION ASSISTANT: TIM BROOKS. ISABELLA WEARS (THIS PAGE): JUMPER, £79, ARKET. *PART SPONSORED BY BABYLISS, BABYLISS.CO.UK One of Syd’s favourite recommendations for all curl types, Maria Nila Curlicue Cream, £26, gives hair an instant hit of hydration. Define and revive tight coils and curls with BaByliss Tight Curls Wand, £25. ‘Doing so delivers richness and shine in a matter of seconds,’ says Syd. For soft curl definition and longwearing hold, Bumble and bumble Bb.Curl Mousse, £25, works like a charm. Zero crunch, guaranteed. Leading…

Charlotte Mensah is a multi award-winning hairstylist specialising in natural texture and has an eponymous haircare brand. Things have really changed for hair in the last decade. For me and my clients, it’s all about loving your natural texture and wearing it with confidence – and my best buys reflect that. As for skincare, my earliest memories are of my grandmother applying Nivea to my face from a jumbo-sized jar. Over the years, I’ve made some great skincare discoveries, such as a love for cleansing oil in lockdown. I recently discovered DHC Deep Cleansing Oil, £12.50, and now use it every night to remove my make-up. It’s packed with antioxidants and turns milky when you rinse it off. It transforms my skin overnight. Multi-use Charlotte Mensah Manketti Oil Hair Pomade,…

THE AFTERMATH OF the exceptional first season of Big Little Lies is likely to reverberate around elite TV for the next decade. Reese Witherspoon’s immediately recognisable response to its defining flavour was Little Fires Everywhere, another impressive domestic potboiler. Nicole Kidman’s nominal follow-up, The Undoing – produced and written by BLL executive David E Kelley – lands next. It’s the third cog of a wheel spinning specifically to turn them into small-screen queens the equal of their red-carpet cinema reputations. There is a lot to recognise in The Undoing from BLL. A murder unsettles the pristine balance of a community of high-achieving, monied wives, pricking the perfection of their luxurious homesteads. A less affluent mom with a scholarship kid infiltrates their snobbish circle of social climbing and school fundraisers. But…

WITH WINTER JUST around the corner, it’s time to talk jackets and coats. Hurray! And whether you’re city-bound or running after your kids, you can be sure the Great British weather will catch you off-guard. Something former Girls Aloud singer and mum of two Kimberley Walsh can identify with, as she juggles country living with her boys with rehearsals in the city. Finding outerwear that’s as stylish as it is functional can be a challenge but, thanks to Kimberley’s third collection with Regatta, you can call off the search! ‘Combining style with the practicality of waterproofing and warmth is key for me,’ Kimberley explains. Her eight-piece collection – inspired by her love of the great outdoors – starts from £60 and includes standout looks that elevate the humble coat. Top…

PHOTOS: SHUTTERSTOCK Anna Whitehouse, aka Mother Pukka You are not alone. My daughter was walking at the pace of a hedgehog a few weeks ago when I asked her to hurry up. She stopped in her tracks, looked me in the eye and, in the tone of an EastEnders barmaid, hollered, ‘F*** ing wait!’ She’s three. We traced it back to lockdown when my husband was uttering expletives under his breath at every turn. This is not a blame game, but children are like sponges and calling a bad driver a ‘bell-end’ on the school run will come back to bite you at pick-up. One thing I have learned through my eldest is not to make it into something bigger. The minute they feel there is some power to be…

Emma Smart of The Eden Project (edenproject.com) shares her tips 1. With a sharp paring knife, cut a circle in the bottom of a large pumpkin, then scope out the contents with an ice-cream scoop leaving the wall 15-20mm thick. 2. Find a stencil of a design – just google ‘pumpkin stencils’ – and attach it to the pumpkin with masking tape. Use a pen to make dotted lines along the lines of the stencil, making sure your pen pierces the paper each time to leave dotted lines in the pumpkin’s skin. Remove the stencil. 3. Carve the design using the dotted lines as your guide. If you’re going to put a candle in the pumpkin, make a hole in the top, otherwise the candle won’t get enough oxygen to…

BRAVERY IN HER GRIEF I could identify with ‘Chrissy sharing her baby loss will help other women’ (19 Oct). I may be one of your oldest readers (94) but I can still remember as if it were yesterday when my third son was stillborn 66 years ago. In those days no one encouraged you to hold your baby if he had died – he was taken away and I never saw him again. In the aftermath of losing Stephen, the thing that helped me most was isolating myself. My husband and I cocooned ourselves at home. People deal with grief in different ways. But my heart goes out to Chrissy Tiegen. If sharing her baby loss on Instagram has helped other women, she should be commended for being brave enough…

MOON BOOTS WITH SUITS It’s a vibe I’m calling ‘formal snuggliness’. At Ivylee Copenhagen. P H I N E LONDON’S TURTLE MEDALLION It’s a little bit hip-hop, a little bit David Attenborough. CARDIGANS OF MANY COLOURS This Essential Antwerp spectacular, for example. TRINNY WOODALL Loved her before I discovered her Trinny London BFF De-Stress tinted serum. Now ? That love is unbound. COVIDSWORTHS Like jobsworths, but they use the most rigid interpretation of Covid law to assert power.…

THERE HASN’T BEEN much to smile about over the past few weeks, but the truly optimistic will have found pleasure from a most unexpected source: the weather. Yes, it’s been raining cats and dogs, but last week also signalled the true start to autumn. The leaves are becoming bronze-tinged, which means it’s now acceptable to indulge in that long-awaited pumpkin-spiced latte and start cracking out your boots. The way to wear them now? With a dress, as seen in the autumn/winter collections of Louis Vuitton, Alexander McQueen, Valentino and a long list of others. But the formula wasn’t just gaining steam on the runway. The combination is even more popular off it. During Paris Fashion Week, the street style scene made it clear: boots and dresses are the look of…

PHOTOS: TOMMIE OMINDE/ACTIONAID WHO RUNS THE world? We knew the answer long before Beyoncé reminded us, but Hilda Nanguri Anania’s work in Kenya confirms how spot-on the adage is. In her community, Hilda has been sharing lifesaving Covid-19 awareness messages and emphasising the need for social distancing and masks in markets and social areas. Hilda takes part in road shows, where she talks about handwashing, coughing into tissues and why people must avoid handshaking. ‘I feel so proud and I love the work I do,’ says Hilda, 49, a mother of four who lives in Garashi. ‘It’s a very important job because if one person gets infected in the community, then others are also at risk. In our area, some people are saying that, as we experience high temperatures, we…

PHOTOS: GETTY, ALAMY WHEN I STARTED secondary school, I had one goal. It wasn’t to excel in French (although I did, bien sûr). No, my only aim was to have a group of loyal and loving best friends. I’d had great friends up until then so I knew that everything in life was better when you were on a team with other girls. However, a year into secondary school, a new trend arrived. A trend that put my female friendship obsession at risk: The Bitch. It was the mid-noughties and by that point The Bitch was everywhere you looked. Regina George first blessed our screens in 2004 as the incredibly hot, famously chic bitch in Mean Girls. Regina was a professional bitch, mastering the art of being the best at…

PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES I LIVE BY MYSELF in a one-bed apartment in Los Angeles. I felt comfortable until last winter, before the UK general election. I came back to my apartment every evening, sat on my sofa and I felt not calm solitude but stark isolation. And this was pre-Covid, before I would spend more than six months solo waiting out a pandemic. But that isolation wasn’t a patch on last winter because, thousands of miles from my family in the UK, I went through something alone. They were the only people I could talk to when the walls were closing in, when all my non-Jewish friends and colleagues were in agreement about who they were voting for to save humanity – Jeremy Corbyn, a man who allowed anti-Semitism to…

PHOTOS: GETTY, JASON LLOYD-EVANS.ADIDAS ORIGINALS X KHAITE: PRE-ORDER AT KHAITE.COM Give winter a warm welcome. JW Anderson’s latest Uniqlo collection stars chunky knits, fleeces and XXL scarves. Take your second chance. Zara’s Archive capsule is a re-edition of pieces from 1996 to 2012. Embrace your closet commitment-phobia. Joseph and Stine Goya are now available to rent at Onloan. Dress happy. Cheerful colours are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s mood boost solution in ‘intense’ times. Add red lipstick for extra oomph. Get your Khaite kick. The cool-girl’s favourite brand has given the adidas Originals Country OG runners an elevated upgrade. Do a statement sweater Diana-style. Rowing Blazers’ debut women’s collection includes reissues of hit knits worn by the ultimate ’80s icon.…

For most, it’s become the number one luxury since lockdown; now the great outdoors and its life-giving spirit has arrived on the catwalks. At Philosophy Di Lorenzo Serafini, where the catwalk was an al fresco stretch of grass, the models wore mud-friendly wellie boots and gardening gloves. Florals had a bohemian bent at Dior, and geometric precision at Loewe, where they bloomed in perfect order across a sheer dress. At Kenzo, the inspiration was beekeeper uniforms, with wide-brimmed hats that came cocooned in gauze nets. A new-fangled approach to face coverings or proof that Mother Nature will always loom large in the creative imagination? Both perhaps.…

BRIGHT PATCH Keep a pair of sunnies in your handbag at all times; you never know when the clouds might part. GOLD STANDARD Optimise the gold arms by wearing with chain-link necklaces and hoop earrings. ’70S SPIRIT There’s a time and place for blackout shades, but aren’t these hexagonal, ombré-tint beauties a little more cheerful?Wear with patchwork and fringe to maximise the feelgood factor.…

FEW WOMEN HAVE explored the potency of Afro hair to a greater extent than Emma Dabiri. A social historian (she’s a fellow in the Africa department at SOAS University of London and a visual sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths), Emma’s debut book Don’t Touch My Hair was published in 2019 to worldwide acclaim. This month, she leads the conversation in the documentary Hair Power: Me And My Afro as contributors – including teen campaigner Ruby Williams – talk frankly about how their identities have been shaped by their hair. Emma grew up in 1980s Dublin, the daughter of a Black Irish-Nigerian father and a white Trinidadian-born mother, in a predominantly white community. ‘My hair was always presented to me as a problem that needed to be solved and managed,’ says…

Catch up on… Emily In Paris You kind of wanted to watch it before all the fuss… erupted. Now you simply cannot walk into a room without an opinion to spare on what is surely the most divisive romcom of the year. The Grazia TV page verdict? Total love, for all the wrong and right reasons. Netflix now Watch live… Out Of Her Mind Sara Pascoe has stealthily turned into something of a national treasure, voice of funny and proxy big sister all at once. Her first sitcom throws a lot of her brand – confused by trad family values, slightly appalled by the state of men – at the wall and most of it sticks tbh. From 29 Oct, BBC Two Wallow in… My Next Guest Needs No Introduction…

Sophie Walker is chief executive of Young Women’s Trust and author of Five Rules For Rebellion: Let’s Change The World Ourselves It’s hard not to get angry when you start to engage with tough issues. To be enraged by unfairness, suffering and pain is a completely normal reaction. There’s a lot of pressure on women not to show anger, so often angry women are dismissed by men as ‘shrill’ or ‘hysterical’ – or, in the words of President Trump, ‘nasty’. The pressure on women not to protest comes from people who like things just as they are. Free your anger but don’t let it eat you up. Listen to it without fear. Your anger will teach you things about yourself – what you care about and why. Channelling your anger…

The first thing I do when I get home from diving training – at about 5pm, having been up since 7.30am – is give my son Robbie a squeeze. It’s one of the most exciting things about getting home. You can see the road from the house, and yesterday when I came home he was waiting in the window, waving. It makes my day. Before I was a parent, I’d have said that diving came home with me. But it’s a lot easier to leave it behind when you’re looking after a two-year-old who’s climbing over everything. PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK In a normal Olympic year, I’d be travelling here, there and everywhere to training camps and competitions and I’d barely get to see Robbie. He’s grown and developed so much in…