Fearne Cotton
Property Mail catches
up with the TV and radio presenter, who’s back with a cookbook, Happy Vegan.
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earne Cotton isn’t actually vegan. Shock horror. In fact, she is quick to note: “I bloody love an omelette.”
And yet, the 38-year-old has written an entirely plant-based, animal- free cookbook, Happy Vegan. In its introduction, she explains this isn’t a contradiction. Vegetarian from the age of 12, with a brief foray into pescatarianism in her 20s, she still cooks meat, fish and dairy for her family (husband Jesse Woods, children Honey and Rex, and step- children Arthur and Lola), and most of her baking involves eggs. However, the Londoner is not one to eschew reinvention. Her telly life started aged 15 as a presenter on Te Disney Club, followed by Diggit alongside her long-time friend Reggie Yates. Radio 1, Top Of Te Pops and Celebrity Juice presenting gigs swiſtly followed, but now, instead of the celeb partying you
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might expect from a well-connected TV darling, her Instagram feed is a serene corner of the internet, devoted to yoga (and enviable leggings), vegan cookery, and the lessons she’s learned from the empowering, positive people she interviews on her Happy Place podcast. From kids’ TV presenter to wellness conduit - the woman is all about moving forward and doing what feels right for you, when it feels right. And so, now, she explains, “I am a vegetarian who eats probably 90% vegan.” Chickens arguably take the full brunt of the fact she’s not 100% there; the most challenging aspect of going totally plant-based, she says, is not eating eggs. “I do love eating eggs,” she adds again, for good measure. Ten there’s the fact vegan options can oſten be limited at times. “If I’m out travelling with work, it can be trickier,” she muses, “so I may eat a
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