Episode 26
July 10 , 2018
26. Andrea McLean: Loose Women Host on Sugar Plantation Life in Trinidad and Tobago, Hitchhiking in the Kakamega Forest and Partying in Ibiza
As one of the most famous women on UK TV, at the helm of one of our most poplar daytime shows, Andrea McLean is the Glasgow girl with the accent that no-one can quite place. Witty, warm and highly entertaining, Andrea grew up on a sugar cane plantation in the Caribbean, has hitchhiked through remote forests in Kenya and is so well travelled she started her career as a travel writer.
On this episode we cover:
Loose Women go wild in Ibiza
Loose Women V Question Time
How to have the best debate
How a girl from a working class background in Glasgow got to grow up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean
Scotland, The Philippines and Bromley in Kent
Curried goat
How her Trinidadian accent comes back to surprise people
Being the only white girl in school
St Joseph’s Convent in San Fernando
The culture shock of moving back to the UK age 15
How being bullied at school led to her first commission (in Just 17!)
The culture shock of arriving in India aged 17
Backpacking off grid
Becoming a travel writer for the Wrexham Leader in Chester, Northern England
Being rejected as a journalist
Moving to London with nothing but an old Ford Fiesta and a bedsit
The feeling that in London you can do anything
Her Dad’s wise words
Her inspiring words
Her parents moving house without her knowing
Being in the middle of nowhere in Africa
Hitchhiking to Kakamega Forest in Kenya
Her yearning to go off grid
Teenagers and their virtual world
Keeping her kids in check
Her book ‘Confessions of a Menopausal Women’
Hysterectomy and support
Her new website – ‘This Girl is on Fire’
Quoting Caitlin Moran (or maybe it wasn’t her!)
Thyroid disease, miscarriages, endometriosis
What women have to put up to but then still just get on with the job
The powerful song that makes her song
How Miley Cyrus sums up what women do every day
Deciding to make it sunny every day
The song that reminds her of travel
