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Begin Again

Begin Again with Davina McCall is your reminder to live a life that you love!

We’re all guilty of staying inside our comfort zone. We’ve convinced ourselves to settle, to accept our lot in life, that it’s too late, too scary, too much.

But what if you could approach change in your life differently? What if you could be excited about stepping outside of your comfort zone? What if you gave yourself permission to reinvent yourself?

Every week, Davina grabs you by the hands and sits you down on the big green sofa for honest, personal conversations with the people who chose change. These are national treasures, everyday heroes, and leading experts, who help you step outside of your comfort zone, embrace reinvention, and get excited about what comes next.

Begin Again is a space where both big changes and small shifts are celebrated as a chance to grow, rediscover yourself, and start again. 

So come on in, get comfortable, and join Davina in Britain’s living room where you get to begin again and again and again!

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Begin Again with Davina McCall

Richard E. Grant and Prue Leith share their stories of life after losing the loves of their lives in this weeks Begin Again moments.

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Begin Again Moments: Life After Loss With Richard E. Grant and Prue Leith

What happens when everyone thinks they know you, but no one sees what you’re really carrying?

In this episode of Begin Again, Trinny Woodall opens up about the moments that shaped her life, her identity, and the woman she has become. Known for her energy, style, honesty and reinvention, Trinny reflects on the public version of herself people thought they understood, and the private struggles that were happening underneath.

Trinny shares the truth about addiction, recovery, and the moment she realised she had to want to change her life for herself. After years of trying to hold everything together, she speaks about taking responsibility, starting again, and learning who she really was when everything else had been stripped back.

This conversation also explores one of the most painful chapters of Trinny’s life: grief after losing Johnny, the father of her daughter. Trinny speaks honestly about the emotional and practical fallout of loss, becoming the person who had to keep things moving, and how selling her house became part of both survival and a new beginning.

She opens up about ageing, energy, beauty, menopause, and why she refuses to disappear as she gets older. For Trinny, how we present ourselves is not about vanity, but about agency, identity, and asking: who do I want to be today?

At its heart, this is a conversation about change, grief, self-worth, and finally refusing to live as the version of yourself other people expect. Trinny Woodall is proof that beginning again is not about becoming someone else. It is about finally becoming yourself.

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(00:00) Intro 

(03:06) How Trinny Became “Trinny” 

(08:07) Trinny’s Upbringing And Relationship With Her Parents 

(11:59) Starting Her First Business At School 

(13:39) Working In The City In A Man’s World 

(19:02) Drug Addiction And Rehab 

(26:49) How Trinny Rebuilt Herself After Rehab 

(29:26) Shopify Ad 

(31:21) Why Self-Image Matters To Trinny 

(35:02) Meeting Susannah Constantine 

(37:53) Miscarriages, IVF And Fertility Struggles 

(41:18) How Trinny Fell Pregnant With Lyla 

(44:43) How Trinny Met Her Husband Johnny 

(52:56) Losing Johnny And Coping With Grief 

(01:01:35) How Trinny London Helped Rebuild Her Life 

(01:08:14) Ageing Disgracefully 

(01:14:02) Trinny’s Advice For Women To Live Happier Lives

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Trinny Woodall: Why I Finally Stopped Compromising

In this powerful episode of Begin Again Moments, we bring together two standout clips from full Begin Again conversations, edited back-to-back around one vital theme: your health matters.

Julia Bradbury opens up about her personal health journey, sharing how her cancer diagnosis forced her to completely rethink the way she was living, from stress and sugar to the pace of everyday life. She reflects on the changes that helped her rebuild her relationship with her body, her wellbeing, and her future. 

Dr Rangan Chatterjee then explores the importance of preventative medicine, explaining why symptoms are often the result of what’s happening across our nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, environment, and relationships. He shares why knowledge alone isn’t enough to create lasting change, and why understanding the role our habits play is the first step to transforming our health. 

To hear the full conversations, watch the complete episodes on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Begin Again Moments: Your Health Matters!

What happens when the dream you built your life around begins to fall apart?

In this episode of Begin Again, singer, actress, and British soul icon Beverley Knight opens up about the moments that shaped her life, her career, and her purpose. Beverley reflects on the faith, music, resilience, and family foundations that made her who she is.

Beverley shares the truth behind her journey through the music industry, including the backlash she faced when she refused to stay in one lane. After years of success, how it felt being judged, dismissed, and slowly pushed aside by parts of the industry that once celebrated her. But even in the face of rejection, Beverley kept going.

This conversation explores one of the most painful chapters of Beverley’s life: losing her best friend Tyrone to HIV. Beverley speaks movingly about their bond, the grief of watching him die, and how his activism inspired her to continue fighting for LGBTQ+ rights and visibility. His loss became her purpose.

She opens up about reinvention, and the career pivot to musical theatre became a new beginning, leading to acclaimed West End roles, Olivier nominations, and a second life on stage.She shares how she almost lost everything to an illness that led to a hysterectomy.

At its heart, this is a conversation about purpose and refusing to let other people define your ending. Beverley Knight is proof that sometimes the moment people think you are finished is actually the moment you begin again.

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(00:00) Intro

(01:22) Why Beverley’s Life In Music Still Matters

(02:19) How Beverley First Fell In Love With Music

(05:14) How Faith Shaped Beverly’s Childhood

(13:01) What Her Parents Faced After Coming To The UK

(20:52) Why Music Can Still Bring People Together

(23:07) What Really Happened When Beverley Performed With Prince

(26:29) Do Health Ad

(27:44) Saily Ad

(30:44) Why Beverly’s Pop Album Sparked Backlash

(38:23) How Tyrone’s HIV Battle Changed Beverly’s Purpose

(42:44) Why Beverly Kept Fighting For LGBTQ+ Rights Despite The Hate

(45:13) Shopify Ad

(47:14) How Musical Theatre Led Beverly To Her Olivier

(57:22) The Health Scare That Changed Everything

(01:07:53) What’s Next For Beverley

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Beverley Knight: Losing My Best Friend At The Worst Moment Of My Career & How I Found New Purpose!

In this powerful episode, Gillian Anderson opens up about what women really want; exploring the hidden world of female fantasy and the surprising truth about how little we’ve progressed when it comes to openly talking about desire. Drawing from thousands of anonymous submissions to her book, she reveals the shame, curiosity, and untapped honesty that still surrounds women’s inner lives. 

Sex expert Cindy Gallop then takes the conversation one step further, sharing practical, empowering advice on how to actually ask for what you want in the bedroom, and just as importantly, how to express what you don’t. From navigating awkward conversations to turning communication into something genuinely exciting, she breaks down how owning your voice can transform not just your sex life, but your confidence everywhere else too. 

Together, these moments explore desire, communication, and the power of knowing, and asking for, what you truly want.

Watch the Full Episode With Cindy Here: https://youtu.be/PAnPAbVZvmg

Watch the full episode with Gillian Here: https://youtu.be/XKQOTwY7TRk 

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Begin Again Moments: Female Fantasy & Asking For What You Want | Gillian Anderson & Cindy Gallop

Why Do Relationships Really Fall Apart?

In this episode of Begin Again, couples therapist and Netflix’s Blue Therapy relationship expert Karen Doherty opens up about what really causes couples to drift apart, lose intimacy, and stop feeling connected. With over 25 years of experience working with couples, Karen explains why so many relationships do not end because of one dramatic event, but because of a slow, quiet disconnect that grows over time.

Karen explores the hidden patterns that can damage a relationship: unresolved triggers, contempt, poor timing, emotional shutdown, infidelity, loss of trust, and the everyday resentments that slowly wear away at love. She explains why couples often fight about the surface issue, like the dishwasher, sex, money, or tone of voice, when the real problem is usually feeling unseen, rejected, criticised, or misunderstood.

This conversation also dives deep into intimacy, and why it is about far more than sex. Karen breaks down the different forms of intimacy, from emotional and physical closeness to humour, curiosity, micro-connections, and the small daily gestures that help couples feel chosen again. She also shares why scheduled intimacy, honest conversations, and understanding each other’s triggers can be powerful tools for rebuilding connection.

At its core, this is a conversation about love, repair, and what it really takes to keep a relationship alive. Whether you are in crisis, quietly drifting, rebuilding trust, or simply trying to understand your partner better, Karen offers a hopeful and practical reminder: relationships need care, attention, and intention but there is almost always a way back to connection.

Sometimes, the choice to begin again is the clearest sign that love is still there.

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(00:00) Intro

(01:03) Karen's Background: 25 years of couples Therapy

(02:07) The biggest problem facing couples

(04:55) Working with couples and Beginning the process

(07:17) Is hope for couples in crisis? Couples who come to therapy to break up

(08:56) "independence vs autonomy"

(12:16) 4 essential components of love

(13:40) Contempt in relationships, and managing couples who are breaking up

(17:50) the different forms of intimacy, and the importance of "micro-connections"

(22:16) 5 love languages and managing each other's differences

(24:49) The external pressures Facing Your relationship

(27:04) Saily Ad

(28:00) Shopify Ad

(29:02) Different types of triggers in relationships

(34:29) Why You Should Be scheuduling intimacy

(36:57) Managing differing sex drives, and negotiating "couple deals"(40:21) Understanding each other's triggers

(45:07) Karen's rules for arguments

(47:19) infidelity and can male/female friendships work

(53:24) Karen answers questions from viewers about relationships

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Relationship Expert: Why Independence Is Killing Your Intimacy & Can Men & Women Be "Just Friends"?

“We have more communication today than ever before, but also more loneliness. You never know what’s going on for someone else”

In this moving Moments episode, Rob Parsons shares the extraordinary story of Ronnie, a vulnerable man he had known since childhood, who arrived on his doorstep just before Christmas with all his belongings in a black plastic bag and a frozen chicken in his hand.

With two simple words, “come in”, Rob and his wife Diane changed the course of Ronnie’s life. What began as one meal became a lifelong relationship, revealing the profound impact that safety, dignity, and human connection can have on someone who has been failed by the care system and left without a place to belong.

Rob reflects on what Ronnie’s story taught him about homelessness, childhood trauma, neurodivergence, loneliness, and the systems that so often leave vulnerable people behind. He explores why relationships, not just services or structures, are essential in helping people rebuild their lives.

Later in the episode, Simon Squibb shares his own deeply personal experience of being made homeless at 15, just after his father died. Thrown suddenly into the real world, Simon recalls how the people society often overlooks became the kindest and most generous, offering him food, blankets, and guidance when he needed it most.

Together, Rob and Simon’s stories challenge the way we see homelessness, reminding us that anyone’s life can change in an instant, and that even the smallest act of kindness can restore someone’s sense of hope, dignity, and belonging.

The full episodes are available now, wherever you get your podcasts or you can watch on YouTube:
Rob Parsons: https://youtu.be/wlpcFnOPH2k 

Simon Squibb: https://youtu.be/5GEQE8ztdf4 

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Begin Again Moments: The Reality of Homelessness

Are We Failing Young Men?

In this episode of Begin Again, David Gandy opens up about masculinity, mentorship, and the reality behind becoming the world’s highest-paid male model. From feeling like he didn’t fit the mould to building one of the most iconic careers in fashion, David reflects on insecurity, identity, and what young men really need in a world that often sends them the wrong message.

But this conversation goes far beyond modelling. David speaks candidly about shyness, insecurity, self-criticism, and the strange contradiction of becoming one of the most photographed men in the world while still hating having his picture taken. He shares how those early feelings shaped him, how he learned to channel them, and why confidence is often far more complicated than it looks from the outside.

The episode also explores masculinity, mentorship, and why so many young men are struggling to find their place. David reflects on the role models that shaped him, the importance of guidance, and why he believes we need a more positive conversation around masculinity, respect, and responsibility. Rather than blaming or dividing, he argues for better examples, stronger values, and more honest conversations about what young men actually need.

At its core, this is a conversation about identity, resilience, and what it means to stay in control of your life and career in a world that is always trying to define you.

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(00:00) Intro 

(01:09) The Modelling Industry in the Early 2000s 

(02:55) A Message From David’s Agent and Mentor 

(09:38) David on Defying Expectations and Landing Dolce & Gabbana (13:51) David’s New Partnerships With M&S and Jaeger Menswear 

(18:40) David on His Parents and Upbringing 

(23:06) Balancing Relationships and Career 

(26:37) Saily Ad 

(27:33) Shopify Ad 

(28:34) Overcoming Shyness and Insecurities 

(34:38) How Modelling Shaped David Long-Term 

(37:01) Changing Body Standards in Modelling 

(39:04) David on His Daughters and Modern Parenting 

(42:27) David on His Relationship With His Dad 

(44:51) Supporting Young Men and Addressing Male Suicide 

(48:15) Toxic Masculinity and the Demonisation of Young Men 

(50:43) What’s Happening With the Manosphere? 

(53:08) The Need for Positive Role Models for Young Men

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David Gandy Becoming The World's Highest Paid Male Model & The Truth About The Manosphere!

These are just two powerful moments from full Begin Again episodes. Want the full story? You can watch and listen to the complete conversations on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.

In this eye-opening episode, Eleanor Mills shares her deeply personal experience with psilocybin, exploring how a guided psychedelic retreat helped her confront fear, let go of the past, and rediscover a sense of connection and purpose. From moments of surrender to profound emotional breakthroughs, Eleanor reflects on how the experience reshaped her understanding of herself and the world around her.

Joining the conversation, Professor David Nutt, one of the world’s leading experts on neuroscience and psychedelics, breaks down the science behind hallucinogens. He challenges common misconceptions, explains why substances like psilocybin are classified the way they are, and reveals their potential to treat conditions such as depression and PTSD.

Together, they explore the line between stigma and science, risk and healing, asking whether psychedelics could play a transformative role in mental health and personal growth.

The full episode with Eleanor Mills can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsxiUp6fV_4&t=2079s 

The full episode with Professor David Nutt can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e82IejQ3tEI
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Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

What if staying true to yourself cost you everything?

In this episode of Begin Again, Kate Nash opens up about the reality of building a career in an industry that often tries to control, define, and silence you. From becoming a breakout star at 18 to being labelled, misunderstood, and written off, Kate shares what it really feels like to grow up in the public eye and fight to stay yourself.

She speaks candidly about the music industry today, why it’s no longer sustainable for artists, and the difficult decisions she’s had to make to keep her career alive including starting an OnlyFans to fund her tours. For Kate, it’s not about controversy, it's about survival, independence, and refusing to play by rules that no longer work.

This conversation also explores the emotional side of that fight. The pressure to be perfect, the anger that once fuelled her, and the conscious decision to move beyond it. Kate reflects on identity, feminism, and the power of women supporting each other in a world that often tries to pit them against one another.

At its core, this is a story about resilience, creative freedom, and what it takes to take back control on your own terms.

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(00:00) Intro

(00:01:31) Intro to Kate Nash, fame and problems of public image

(00:04:51) Exploring identity and history through music

(00:08:01) The evolution of Kate’s Music and dealing with online hate

(00:12:34) Kate's Catholic upbringing, the challenges of Shame

(00:19:15) Kate's relationship with her sisters

(00:23:06) Do Health Ad

(00:24:27) Bloom and Wild Ad

(00:25:29) Kate's heart surgery

(00:32:17) Kate deciding to quit her job and start performing music

(00:36:26) Dealing with fame

(00:39:20) Manager stealing from her, and healing from

(00:47:33) Moving to LA

(00:48:57) Kate's breakout role in Netflix series *Glow*, and learning to wrestle

(00:58:31) Why the music industry is broken!

(01:01:41) Starting an OnlyFans account to fund her career

(01:06:04) How fans can support the music industry

(01:08:23) Kate's protest around London

(01:12:00) The reasons Kate is fighting for the music industry and culture

(01:16:12) A surprise letter for KateSponsored by:

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Begin Again Moments: Female Fantasy & Asking For What You Want | Gillian Anderson & Cindy Gallop

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