LIVE24SEVEN // Interview CAS TAWAY COL L E C T ION – CHE R R Y HEAL E Y
Witty wonder woman and powerhouse presenter, Cherry Healey is best known for fronting some of the BBC’s most challenging and compassionate documentaries, discussing everything from birth to body image, sales to sexuality and everything in between. Alongside her presenting prowess and role as mother to her daughter Coco and son, Bear, Cherry has also penned her first book, Letters To My Fanny – a hilarious and candid memoir about twenty-first-century womanhood. Cherry comes to the Cheltenham Literature Festival this October. Celebrity Columnist, Ellie Mainwaring chats to Cherry.
Where in the world will you choose to be a castaway? Richard Branson's Necker Island is probably a good bet – it's got all the modern tech, but in a perfect Caribbean setting – and during the recent hurricane he and his staff took shelter in his huge wine cellar, which appeals on a safety and a wine level.
What animal or pet would you take? It's bad to have a favourite pet but I do. I have two cats, one called Party Time and the other called Ruby. I'd take Party Time with me as he is clearly the brains of the gang. Ruby is beautiful but still, after a year, thinks everything is trying to kill her, whereas Party Time is Mr Lover Lover. He's practically a dog.
Name one possession you would leave behind for a loved one? For my kids, I'd leave my portable hard drive loaded with all the family photographs from when they were both born. If I wasn’t there, at least they'd have this to tease each other with!
What would be your luxury item and why? Wireless Beats Headphones and an iPhone – yes that's technically two, but I think they should count as one as they work together! Without music, news, audiobooks and podcasts I wouldn't last very long.
You can take one celebrity companion, dead or alive, who will it be? Davina McCall. She's the whole package – fit as a fiddle, so could help with fishing and climbing trees for coconuts, but also a hoot and a great talker. She's also a national treasure, so I think the government might be tempted to send out the Marines to save us, which would be pretty great.
What’s your most treasured wardrobe item? Hands down my Arctic Woolrich coat. When I’m filming, it’s often in very cold conditions and this coat has saved me many, many times. It's like wearing a duvet.
What movie would you take and why? ‘Contact’ with Jodie Foster is my all time favourite movie. Jodie has the ability to communicate such depths of emotion and I love anything to do with space or aliens.
What would be your last supper before departing for your desert island? My mum's homemade Burger and Chips. She triple cooks the chips and although I have been trying to go veggie recently, her burger is worth breaking that for.
Biggest memory item and what’s the story behind it? My box of diaries is pretty special to me. I've kept fairly detailed diaries since I was about 11. For me, they paint a much more vivid picture of my past than photos and I think I'll enjoy reading them when I'm an old woman.
Cherry will host the ‘Knackered Mums’ Night Out’ accompanied by ‘Mother of Daughters’ blogging sensation Clemmie Hooper, ‘Harrah for Gin’s’ Katie Kirby and The Unmumsy Mum, Sarah Turner. For more information on Cheltenham Literature Festival 2017, visit
www.cheltenhamfestivals.com
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