Twiggy on life as the face of the swinging sixties, winning 2 golden globes and life as a self confessed foodie
Desert Island Dishes
Desert Island Dishes
4.8 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Twiggy is one of those rare celebrities known by a single name.
She was the girl from Neasden, north London who became the face of the swinging sixties. With her petite frame at just 5ft 6 Twiggy smashed the stereotypes of what it meant to be a supermodel. Her pixie hair cut and wide eyes will forever be iconic.
As the model of her age she was propelled into the glamorous world of fashion and photography and later she found success as a singer, dancer and actress. She starred in Ken Russell’s film The boyfriend – a performance for which she won not one by two golden globes. In 1983 her talents took her to Broadway for her debut in the musical My One and Only.
She is a wife, mother, grandmother and of course fellow podcaster.
She has said of her many successes “ I think I’ve had a brilliant career. And more importantly I’ve had a very happy life.”
Listen to Twiggy's podcast Tea with Twiggy wherever you get your podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Desert Island Dishes is brought to you by Lloyd's Bank. |
| 0:04.1 | With their club Lloyd's current account, you can now get 12 months of Disney Plus as your lifestyle benefit. |
| 0:10.7 | To know me is to know that I love watching things on TV, so I am so excited to tell you about this. |
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| 0:23.3 | We must have watched Disney's Frozen at least 100 times by now. |
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| 0:40.9 | I highly recommend watching The Bear if you haven't seen it yet. |
| 0:44.4 | It's all about a talented chef who's presented with the challenge of overhauling his family sandwich shop. |
| 0:51.0 | Season 2 is coming soon and I can't wait. |
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| 1:19.6 | Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast. |
| 1:24.7 | This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven desert |
| 1:29.5 | island dishes. These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their |
| 1:34.1 | childhood, the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they would choose to |
| 1:39.9 | eat before being cast off to the desert island. The question is, what would you choose as your |
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