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Jun 2024
48m 39s

Adele Roberts and Kate Holderness

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About this episode

Today on  podDIVA , we are super-dooper #Proud to be dropping in on this hilarious, this gorgeous conversation between our amazing Pride month cover star Adele Roberts, her fabulous fiancé Kate Holderness and our divine editor-in-chief, the right royal Roxy Bourdillon.


Be prepared to laugh along with these three old friends, to be inspired, to be deeply moved and perhaps, like me, to shed a tear too.


Hear all about:


  • dealing with cancer and writing their book
  • that first date and the two decades of lesbian love that have followed
  • their challenges, grief and recovery



Adele and Kate’s book is called Personal Best: From Rock Bottom to the Top of the World. And it is truly awesome.  And just FYI – the "Audrey" that these three superstar women refer to is Adele’s stoma bag.  


The DIVA Debrief - one gorgeous glossy in your ear.



Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley


Or listened to our 30 x 30 micro-casts? Celebrating 30 years of DIVA magazine and its community throughout the month of April 2024.


Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's latest issue here.


Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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