In Bed With Neil Moodie

In 2011 at the age of 15 Rosie Tapner was discovered by Storm Model Management at the Birmingham Clothes Show Live, and within weeks became the face of Balenciaga's 2012 campaign shot by Fashion Royalty Steven Meisel. Rosie hit the ground running with modelling and was suddenly THE New British face of the moment being tipped as the next Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne. Within a year she had become a Vogue cover star, was in the Chloe, Burberry and Selfridges campaigns and walking many of the...

My guest on this episode is my dear friend, top fashion illustrator Nuno da Costa. Born in London to Portuguese parents, he opted to leave studying Modern Languages and Hispanic and Latin American cultural at uni to pursue his first love of art, choosing a career in fashion illustration. HIs love of fashion photography and collaborating with hair and make up artists in the fashion industry, has allowed him to create a singular style of illustration that he has now become famous for. Now...

Tom Chapman, founder of the Lions Barber collective and Model turned TV presenter, and myself discuss raising awareness about mens mental health outside of metropolitan cities, following a recent research conducted by Ironmongery Direct, in collaboration with charity Mind, which has shown that male construction workers are three times more likely to die from suicide than the average UK man, and half of UK trades people experience mental health issues due to work. Tom Chapman is not only an...

My guest on this episode is Maranda Widlund. Maranda’s Swedish mother who sadly passed away quite young was a hedonistic Model, living her life to the max, packing in an inordinate amount of drink and drugs. Miranda’s father, Gavin Hodge was one of the first “celebrity” hairdressers in the swinging 60’s of London, who also packed into his life an inordinate amount of drink, drugs and sex. Growing up amongst this chaos Miranda managed to forge her own life, and become one of the most lauded...

My guest on this episode is Gavanndra Hodge. She has worked in newspapers and magazines for over twenty years, including the Daily Mail, the Independent and ES Magazine. Gavanndra is the sister of my guest on EP 5 Maranda Widlund, launching today too. She was the deputy editor and acting editor of Tatler. In 2018 she left Tatler and became a freelance writer, contributing to publications including the Sunday Times, The Times and the Telegraph. In 2020 during the 1st covid lockdown, Gavanndra...

My guest on this 1st of a 2 parter episode is the marvellous 3 X Oscar Nominated Costume Designer and Fashion Stylist, Arianne Phillips. US born Arianne is one of the most lauded costume designers and fashion stylists of our generation. She chats with me about her upbringing, how she got into fashion, music and film and how her amazing career unfolded.

This episode is part 2, of my interview with the wonderful Oscar nominated Costume Designer and Fashion Stylist Arianne Phillips. In this episode Arianne talks about being nominated for awards , especially the Oscars, plus her support to sustainability and onwards…

My guest the first of this three parter episode is the marvellous 3 X Oscar Nominated Arianne Phillips. Arianne is one of the most lauded costume designers and fashion stylists of our generation and co founder of RAD which advocates, promotes, and raises money for the charities that celebrities and brands believe in. Born in the US, Arianne chats with me about her upbringing, how she got into fashion, music and film and and how her amazing career unfolded.

My guest on this episode is the wonderful barber Tom Chapman. Tom is also an author, public speaker and charity founder. He talks to me about his upbringing, playing music, training to be a hairdresser then becoming a barber. Following the sad, sudden death of a close friend he founded the super successful charity Lions Barber Collective, where they train barbers ( and now hairdressers too) to recognise mental health issues in clients and aid in the prevention of suicide.

This episode is part two of a two part episode, with my first guest of Series 3, make-up maven, Lisa Eldridge. Raised in New Zealand and Liverpool Lisa is considered as one of the most top, respected make-up artists of her generation and is also an award winning Business women, NY Times Best selling author and Youtuber. Lisa gave me a tour of her latest Pop-up shop, currently open in Covent Garden London until December 31st 2021, then we sat and chatted all things House of Eldridge. from her...

This episode is part one of a two part episode, with my first guest of Series 3, make-up maven, Lisa Eldridge. Raised in New Zealand and Liverpool Lisa is considered as one of the most top, respected make-up artists of her generation and is also an award winning Business women, NY Times Best selling author and Youtuber. Lisa gave me a tour of her latest Pop-up shop, currently open in Covent Garden London until December 31st 2021, then we sat and chatted all things House of Eldridge. from her...

For episode 11 of series 2 I’m so excited to announce that I’m joined by a dear friend of mine, make-up artist extraordinaire Lucia Pieroni. I interviewed Lucia a couple of weeks before the UK's COVID 19 outbreak in her North West London home and this episode is being released during the UK pandemic lockdown. Lucia and I have shared flats and apartments together and also holidayed together as good friends and as toe dipping yogis. I felt very honoured that she agreed to do the podcast with...

I’m joined by the wonderful make-up artist & young entrepreneur Zoë Taylor in this episode. Born and raised in London, Zoë went from studying art & design at college to doing a course on beauty therapy which is where her love of make-up really began. After leaving beauty therapy school she eventually went on to assisting one of the biggest make-up artists in the world before going it alone, and has since forged a career as one of the leading make-up artists in the UK & internationally. She...

My guests in this episode are the fabulous Erin O'Connor and Jade Parfitt who both began modelling just after the Kate Moss grunge furore in the early 90's. Like Kate their careers went stratospheric, being shot by the best photographers for the biggest magazines, ad campaigns and walking the runways for the biggest fashion houses in the world. Unlike Kate though, these 2 women were both over 6 feet tall and defined another new era of models, whose looks were so individual that they could...

Entrepreneur Kathryn Danzey began training in beauty back in 1973 so with over 40 years of experience she has channelled all her expansive knowledge into her multi award winning, family run company Rejuvenated UK and the 3 books she has written. They were the 1st company to come up with idea of a potent collagen drink for general health and well being. In this interview she tells me about her childhood, her training, how Rejuvenated started and where they’re going next, plus how her wealth...

This episode forms the 3rd and final part of a special trilogy featuring the New York born Francesca Sorrenti. Francesca and I are also joined by our dear friend Karl Plewka, Stylist and editor of Beuaty Papers magazine who I invited to join me to co-host the interview. This special trilogy of interviews, Karl and I have chose to call "The Godmother" Like Mario Puzo’s fictional Sicilian-American family of the The Godfather series, the Sorrentis are to fashion what the Corleones were to...

This episode forms the 2nd part of a special trilogy of interviews featuring the amazing New York born, stylist turned photographer, mother and curator, Francesca Sorrenti. Francesca and I are also joined on this trilogy by our dear friend Karl Plewka, Stylist and Editor of Beauty Papers magazine who I invited to join me to co-host the interview. This special Trilogy of interviews, Karl and I have chosen to call 'The Godmother' Like Mario Puzo’s fictional Sicilian-American family of the The...

This episode forms the 1st part of a special trilogy featuring the escapades of the amazing Francesca Sorrenti. Francesca and I are also joined on this trilogy by our dear friend Karl Plewka, stylist and editor of Beauty Papers magazine who I invited to join me to do the interview. This special Trilogy of interviews I have chosen to call The Godmother. Like Mario Puzo’s fictional Sicilian-American family of the The Godfather series, the Sorrentis are to fashion what the Corleones were to...

My guest in this episode is the lovely and amazing Dr. Michael Brady. Michael is a very important Doctor within the UK's NHS and husband to celebrity hairstylist Mathew Soobroy. In April 2019 Michael was appointed as the first ever National Advisor for LGBTQ+ Health with the aim being to reduce health inequalities for LGBTQ+ communities and improve their experience of health and social care. After studying Medicine in Nottingham and moving around the UK with the NHS, he ended up at the Kings...

I met Zoe in her south London studio where we chatted about her growing up in the south of England, starting out as a hairdresser turned entrepreneur manicurist and co-founder of Nail Rocks, suffering from depression, and recovering from that through learning to up-cycle furniture and unexpectedly turning it into a new business which lead to her also becoming a TV presenter too.