Live & Kicking’s Sarah Cawood talks Bridget Jones-style dates, Sarah Cox & 'face-smashing' Declan Donnelly

She’s still hilariously good fun, but the star of the naughty Noughties, Live & Kicking’s Sarah Cawood, reveals some of her early dating disasters. She insists she was more of a ‘buying the white dress after the first kiss’ Bridget Jones kind of girl than the Sara Cox-style ladette we all thought she was. But that didn’t stop her ‘face-smashing’ both Declan Donnelly and a guest at Holly Willoughby’s wedding. Ah, to be young again…

In this warm, funny and honest conversation with Siobhan Wykes, Sarah looks back on the wild days of 90s and 00s television, the parties, the dating disasters and the relationships that shaped her life. She shares the real story behind the infamous Declan Donnelly kiss, talks about life alongside the ladette generation, and explains why she was always a hopeless romantic beneath the party-girl image.

Sarah also opens up about the heartbreak of television moving on without her, finding lasting love with her husband Andy, becoming a mum later in life, and the life-changing health battles that followed, including sepsis, breast cancer and navigating menopause without HRT.

As always, Sarah finishes by taking on the Suddenly Single Honesty Box, revealing her biggest dating red flags, love language, relationship deal-breakers and why banter beats beauty every time.

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00:00 Welcome – Sarah Cawood joins Suddenly Single 🎙️

01:35 Life as one of the biggest TV presenters of the 90s 📺

04:10 The infamous Declan Donnelly kiss story 😳

08:15 Holly Willoughby’s wedding & Bridget Jones dating moments 💋

10:45 Sarah’s new Substack and reading her teenage diaries 📖

13:00 Dating Blue Tones guitarist Adam Devlin 🎸

16:20 Why women leave relationships differently to men 💔