Stepping into Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s house for the very first time – a bright, colourful pad packed with weird and wonderful charity shop finds and walls plastered with felt-tip masterpieces by her five children – sparks a slightly hard-to-place sense of deja-vu.
As the singer potters around the kitchen, I spot the makeshift stage created for her now-legendary Kitchen Discos over the past few years. Originating in the earliest days of lockdown, the often chaotic shows featured the singer clambering over her breakdancing offspring and removing nearby hazards as she belted out her own greatest hits and feel-good pop covers in an array of glittery costumes. Her husband – The Feeling bassist Richard Jones – could occasionally be spotted dancing around in a horse mask.
