Most individuals would baulk on the concept of a complete crew of individuals rocking up with a digital camera, mic and a number of lights to their sacred house of dwelling. Not Angela Scanlon. The Irish broadcaster, writer and podcaster, recognized for internet hosting exhibits on the BBC and RTÉ, in addition to her weekend breakfast present on Virgin Radio, is charmingly open, pleasant and welcoming, and well-versed in photoshoots and being camera-ready. On a hazy, October day, we have been greeted warmly upon getting into her household abode in North London, and met with the acquainted smile, character and face we all know so properly from primetime TV, her Instagram (give her a observe!) and her presence on the FROW of style weeks.
Angela’s first foray into the highlight stemmed from her work as a stylist, which led to her working on this planet of TV and broadcasting. Her first main documentary Oi Ginger! aired on RTE in 2014 to essential acclaim. This led to a follow-up collection, Angela Scanlon: Full Frontal, which tackled taboo topics resembling excessive makeovers, health, and nudity. Since starting her work with the BBC, Angela has hosted The One Present, cult basic Robotic Wars, BBC Two’s hit inside design present Your House Made Excellent, in addition to protection of T In The Park competition and the BAFTAs. Angela has her personal Saturday night time chat present on RTÉ One, titled Ask Me Something, and, in 2023, she took half within the BBC hit present Strictly Come Dancing. In 2022, Angela revealed her debut guide, Joyrider, to rave evaluations. Half memoir, half self-help information, Joyrider sees Angela chart her personal journey into the world of self-development.
With no view to decelerate, 2025 has seen Angela take up extra spots on the radio and TV, in addition to launching the very viral and really humorous podcast Get A Grip, alongside co-host Vicky Pattison. Angela is well-known for her eclectic private type, in addition to her jewelry line frkl, so we took a snoop round her kaleidoscopic wardrobe, stuffed with IYKYK items, luxurious purses, cult highstreet buys and classic gems. She modelled a few of her most treasured items and chatted about her journey into style, TV and radio. Learn on for our unique dialog and Angela’s buying picks.
Thanks for having us, Angela!
Taking it again to your early years, you grew up in County Meath, Eire. How did rising up there affect your private type?
Sure, I grew up in County Meath which is simply exterior of Dublin however I used to be very a lot a rustic child. I’m considered one of 4 women, and I feel I most likely used style from a very early age to sort of stand out. I do not know that I did that successfully however I used to be undoubtedly interested by what I used to be sporting and the way I might sort of put outfits collectively to… actually, to get consideration. However I might put on issues relentlessly. I might turn out to be fairly fixated on particular issues. I keep in mind a pair of Levi denims I had once I was 11 or 12 that I lower on the within leg so that they flared out over my trainers and an Umbro Sports activities prime that I inherited from my older sister that I assumed was the best factor that had ever existed in my life. So I used to be undoubtedly into style and magnificence from an early age.
What’s your earliest style reminiscence?
I keep in mind for my Holy Communion once I was about eight, I inherited a gown from my older sister and I actually needed my very own gown but it surely was not taking place – you actually put on it for in the future. We have been recycling this gown and I agreed – as if I had any option to put on mentioned gown – if I might “type” it in my very own method. So I took this gown and I acquired a hoop beneath it so it sat out like an actual puffy sort of skirt, fairly than identical to a straight skirt. And I acquired like a flower crown and I acquired this lovely – I want I nonetheless had it – little silk sort of pouch bag with an elasticated deal with on it and sort of pearl detailing. And I simply keep in mind feeling so cool. After which to prime it off, I did like a polka dot white tight with black patent sneakers, these old style princess sneakers with the little key in it, which was very, very uncommon and in my thoughts, it was my second to indicate that I used to be like, had huge concepts about myself. And so, sure, I wore black sneakers for my communion.
Angela wears a jacket from The Frankie Store, an Ashish gown and Michael Kors boots.
How would you describe your private type right this moment, and the way has that modified because you have been youthful?
I feel it is most likely not wildly dissimilar. I sort of swing between tremendous snug, like a trackies and an amazing jumper and a shirt tied round my waist and a jacket – like jackets are an issue. In order that’s on the sort of everyday. I fairly like a tomboy, like barely androgynous, very easy wanting, like stuff that I put on time and again. I feel that has not modified. Or then if I am out, I am out. I actually fairly like getting inappropriately overdressed for issues. So it is both full on off-duty hobo or it is like a critical glam however like with a twist, it is nearly like barely drag. I like for issues to be sort of you understand, like excessive – I really like an excessive sort of second
Angela wears a Farm Rio denim shirt and denims, plus a Burberry shirt.
If we appeared by means of your wardrobe on any day, what might we anticipate finding?
I feel it’s clear from the images however fairly a little bit of color. I might say a number of denim. Denim is the foundational piece in my wardrobe so a number of denim. I like a frou-frou skirt it seems for going out however I additionally like that with a jumper. So I very very like that prime low sort of mixture of tremendous excessive and really underdressed or very ladylike, very girly you understand, saccharine candy with one thing a lot more durable and rougher, sort of boyish stuff.
How does hair and wonder play into the way you select to experiment along with your look now?
I do not truly experiment that a lot. I imply I’m like a skincare nut however are typically comparatively basic in terms of make-up. So I might say I play it fairly low fi. I really like a giant forehead. I really like nice pores and skin and sort of will play with a lip once in a while. Hair I wish to look normally undone. I am a giant fan of a moist look, that appears actually such as you’ve simply gotten out of the bathe and ploughed on. That, to me, is, like, so horny, understated, Parisian, however like tremendous glam. And I feel I did have these sort of icons that I appeared to that simply appeared like that they had made no effort in any respect, however have been so cool. Snug, I feel. And that is not a horny phrase once we discuss style typically, however wish to be snug in your personal pores and skin and with what you are sporting and in your selections and actually really feel like your self, I suppose.
Angela wears a Farm Rio denim shirt and denims, a Burberry shirt and heels from Public Want.
Indulge us: What’s one style fake pas you remorse?
Oh, God. I wore this outfit to the Glamour Awards years and years in the past – it was by a beautiful unbiased London designer referred to as Solace London and was an amazing piece, however the color was not for me! It was a salmon pink look with flared trousers and a tunic prime. However, I imply, I am sort of salmon colored myself, so it actually didn’t work for me. I appeared like a condom, frankly.
What are your all-time favorite style manufacturers? And do you’ve gotten some new manufacturers in your radar that you simply simply can’t gatekeep?
I really like, love, love Simone Rocha. I like Toteme, I like J.W. Anderson and Stella McCartney.
Angela wears an array of bucket hats from her assortment.
You’ve got a collection on Instagram titled “Issues I Love That My Husband Hates”. What impressed you to kick this off?
Actually, it began with interiors, and I used to be like, listed here are just a few random issues in my home that my husband actually does not like, however I am undoubtedly not throwing away after which we moved to doing it with style and it simply sort of hit a chord. I grew up within the late 90s, early noughties when girls have been completely presupposed to look a really specific method, very a lot about dressing for the male gaze. It was low slung denims. It was midriffs, it was boobs. It was all of these issues. And so I feel that is my retaliation in opposition to that and I sort of sense that really I am dressing for the ladies and for the gays and actually, I’m dressing for myself in the end. And so issues that I like, I sort of do not actually thoughts when you like or do not like you understand. In actuality, my husband could not give a monkeys – he is properly used to seeing all the strange issues that I put on, however I undoubtedly assume it is sort of tapped into one thing in people who find themselves going, are you aware what? It is hopefully given them the impetus to assume, fuck it, simply put on it.
Angela wears a Sandro jacket, Aje gown and Giuseppe Zanotti heels, plus a necklace from her Frkl. line.
Who’s in your listing of all-time type icons? Are there any girls, previous or current, who you wish to raid the wardrobe of?
I might say, though this feels a bit clichéd. I really like an Olsen twin, Mary-Kate, most likely most particularly – I simply have at all times sort of cherished her individuality, actually. And I feel she simply places collectively an outfit like no person else. And once more, to that time, it seems to be like she simply rolled actually away from bed and no matter was on the ground caught to her in probably the most good configuration. So yeah, she’s the one.
You’re a girl who wears many hats— a model founder, a broadcaster, writer and a podcaster. How does what you put on change for every of those roles?
I feel once more it comes again to that sort of consolation and various things can be snug for various roles. I suppose once I’m doing TV, I can flex that muscle and sort of indulge myself a bit within the barely extra OTT issues. And I actually try this, like I did a chat present in Eire and I actually performed so much with my wardrobe in that sense and I feel that is one thing that I very a lot get pleasure from. For our podcast Get A Grip it sort of flits – I am both in a pair of denims and an outdated classic t shirt (once more, I am snug). We’re sitting on a sofa for a few hours so I do not wish to be pulling at garments that make me take into consideration what I am sporting fairly than what I am saying. So consolation is completely key. After which once I’m engaged on frkl, you understand, if we’re taking pictures I will throw some garments on however ordinarily I typically work from my mattress or the kitchen desk following the varsity run. So I come dwelling and get on with it. So there are undoubtedly completely different gears. And typically I arrive on the faculty gates on my method to a gathering and, you understand, it is a completely different model for certain.
Angela wears a Sandro jacket, Aje gown and Giuseppe Zanotti heels, plus a necklace from her frkl jewelry assortment.
When did you realise what you needed to do in your profession, and was it a straightforward choice?
I studied enterprise at college, after which I needed to arrange a boutique and a model, after which I labored in that house. I labored as a stylist. I labored as a private shopper, which I completely cherished, and realized that really it was the individuals as a lot as the garments that I cherished coping with everyday. After which from that acquired into tele doing, you understand, very a lot style TV. And as soon as I did that, I assumed, oh, that is what I really like. I really like dwell tv. I really like the sort of stress and pleasure of what dwell presents. It makes me really feel each terrified and exhilarated without delay and there aren’t many issues – bar a skydive – that may try this. and that is impractical just a few occasions every week. So as soon as I had sort of began to do TV, I actually felt like I had discovered what I used to be presupposed to be doing. So sure, it was a straightforward choice in that sense, however I needed to proceed balancing my work with styling to truly pay my hire after which making an attempt to construct up my TV facet of issues. So it was actually not fast, but it surely was a straightforward choice.
Angela wears a coat from Dries Van Noten, a classic sports activities jacket and a necklace from her frkl jewelry assortment.
What one outfit are you able to depend on and know you may really feel probably the most assured and delightful in?
We truly shot this piece however I might say the John Rocha petal organza skirt, which once more is a bit OTT, however I typically put on it with denims beneath it and an amazing t shirt or a jumper and a giant pair of trainers. So I sort of have worn it for my wedding ceremony, but in addition for one million different issues.
What’s your proudest “pinch me” second?
Oh, God. There’ve been so many truly – I might say perhaps getting my very own radio present. So I took over from Graham Norton’s slot on Virgin Radio, and I do that each Saturday morning, and I completely adore it. I really like the intimacy of radio and I really like once more that it is dwell. So yeah, to only sort of sit in that slot and have my very own sort of factor felt actually, actually particular.
Angela wears a coat from Dries Van Noten, a classic sports activities jacket, a skirt from John Rocha, Crocs x Simone Rocha sneakers, plus a necklace from her frkl jewelry assortment.
Who’ve been a few of your favorite girls within the business to work with, and what did you be taught from them?
Oh my God, so many. A few of them I have never labored with however clearly Vicky, who I work alongside in co-hosting our podcast Get a Grip. I completely adore her and I’ve discovered to not be so afraid, I suppose, of displaying myself and never at all times ‘performing’. That has undoubtedly been a lesson and we have now a lot craic.
I labored on radio a bit and my path would cross with Zoe Ball so much, and I completely love her. I feel she’s simply good. And clearly, once I did Strictly with Claudia and Tess. I’m simply actually impressed by these girls who’re managing unimaginable careers alongside household life and trying that elusive steadiness and making it look considerably easy, despite the fact that it is something however. So I suppose I actually admire individuals, girls who’re tenacious and decided and who’re sort of fearless. That is what I am drawn to in people usually.
What does a typical day seem like for you? Take me from the highest.
There’s actually no typical day – each day is completely different!
I really like a superb skincare second and the one merchandise I swear by is La Roche Posay’s Cicaplast Baume B5+ which I’ll carry on me always.
Do you’ve gotten a favorite scent or fragrance that you simply at all times attain for? Or do you’ve gotten a fragrance wardrobe?
I really like The Nue Co. Pheromone perfume – once more it’s not too candy or powdery however extra musky so feels fairly unisex.
Angela wears an & Daughter cardigan, Kindred shorts, plus a necklace from her frkl jewelry assortment.
You’re spending a weekend away from the cameras, enjoyable with your loved ones. What clothes, sneakers and equipment are you packing on your off-duty wardrobe?
I imply I am undoubtedly in denims. I am in an &Daughter jumper, most likely, or a cardigan. They’ve these little round-necked cardies that are basic. I’ve acquired them in a number of colors, the camel, crimson and inexperienced ones. Or a Hades cardigan – I really like their stuff too. And I’m at present loving a sort of bougie coat. I’ve acquired a Jil Sander like silk bomber jacket that I purchased from Bicester that I completely love, and it sort of elevates a really off-duty look or Queens of Archive have probably the most wonderful coat that I’ve lately acquired that’s like a ground size leopard coat so you can actually be in your knickers beneath it and nobody would know. Or they may know in case your legs are peeping out, however that, a pair of Blundstone boots or a pair of trainers or a idler. I am fairly right into a idler and a tracksuit backside today.
If you happen to might put on one outfit for the remainder of your life, what would it not be and why?
It will be denims and a cashmere jumper. Or perhaps it could be denims and a white shirt truly…No, it could be a cashmere jumper. May I’ve each? Perhaps denims, the shirt and the cashmere jumper after which I can sort of swap and I might create a number of completely different seems to be or vibes out of these three items that I would not tire of.
Angela wears an & Daughter cardigan, Kindred shorts, plus a necklace from her frkl jewelry assortment.
Are there any items in your wardrobe which are notably sentimental to you, and why?
Masses! I’ve a number of items that are sentimental but it surely must be my John Rocha skirt which I wore on my wedding ceremony day and many occasions since.
What are the following funding items you’re coveting? What’s subsequent in your autumn wishlist?
I actually desire a new a purse—one thing sort of luxe-y and I do not know what that’s, actually, so in case you have any options let me know!
What’s one of the best piece of profession recommendation you’ve ever been given?
Preserve going, hold going. Additionally – no person’s going to come back. No person’s going to come back for you. They don’t seem to be going to come back and give you the job or inform you how nice you would be at a sure factor, or what it’s best to do. You’ve got to steer your personal ship and discover your personal method. So I might simply say that you have this and likewise to not be afraid of failure. I feel perfectionism is an actual difficulty, and it is principally simply masking worry. So exit, fall flat in your face, make errors, fuck it up and go once more. That’s the solely method to go.
Scenes from Angela’s dwelling.
What mottos, life recommendation or sentiments are you eager to share with or instill in your two younger daughters?
I simply need them to really feel fearless truly, which is sort of a giant ask. Fearlessness, I feel can typically be seen as naivety and ignorance, however I truly assume, you understand, having a sort of sense of an urge for food to do issues, to attempt issues, to discover issues, to create issues with out the worry of how they may be perceived or whether or not they may fail is an actual present for a human.
What can we anticipate subsequent from Angela?
I’m loving the issues I’m doing proper now however there’s nonetheless a lot extra I wish to do and discover so watch this house!
Store Angela’s Edit:
SIMONE ROCHA
Belted Embellished Denim Jacket
By no means Totally Dressed
Select Love T-Shirt
SIMONE ROCHA
Brocade Midi Skirt
FRKL.
The Baroque Necklace
Waterstones
Joyrider (Paperback)
TBCo
Merino Triangle Scarf in Purple
LOEWE Perfumes
Small Tomato Leaves Candle
The Dream Of
Celestial Grade Cacao
House NK
Olaplex Wealthy Hydration Masks
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