About me

Following a three-year training course in dance and drama, Claire Sutton was propelled into the heady, hectic world of showbusiness. She's enjoyed a successful and long-lasting career as a dancer, model and presenter, and has a wide range of commercials and theatre stints under her belt.

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It's been a while, so here's a little update...

Hello everyone,

Oh how I wish I could say ooooh isn't this sunshine divine and how lovely to feel the sun on us... But NO it's downright soggy and I for one have had enough of it!

Yes the grass is lush and "we so needed it" to quote my husband who has so many people claiming to envy his job, but funnily enough NO ONE wants to be a landscaper in this relentlessly torrential rain. Aside from all this weather talk, how are you all doing?



Thank you for all your lovely comments

I cannot chat longer without saying from my heart how special it was to read, (though hard at times) your replies to me following on from my last blog. I am always so honoured and humbled that you choose to respond with your thoughts and personal stories for each of my blogs and in particular for my last one.

Moments in life that shape, define and affect us...

They say there are moments in life that shape, define and profoundly affect us and I'd like to tell you about a couple. One which has delighted me and one which has devastated me that have happened since we last spoke.

Firstly the joy of a new life...a precious and much awaited baby girl has been born. Let me tell you a little more and for this I must take you back to 2001, the year of Tom's birth.

It was as the Special Care Baby Unit; the most incredible place where we spent Tom's first month of his life, surrounded by perpetually bleeping machines, oxygen and the weeniest baby birds, as I affectionately called some beautiful teeny babies, who I have since met as fantastic, healthy children.

New Year shenanigans, kitchen update and more...

Oh goodness gracious, the month is almost away! Where oh where does it go? Although with the return to school and activities and tea dates time has flown by. I tell you the social life of my three completely overshadows mine... come to think of it what social life?!

Having had a husband who has careered down all the mountains in Switzerland this week and left us fending for ourselves (and yes I did forget to put the bins out), the house remained spick and span, the bed made and aside from a few yells in the morning as we repeatedly failed at our morning routine to get out of this house and off to school punctually and calmly (top tips gratefully received please oh wise ones) we have made it through, and hopefully an intact husband will arrive and normal life, whatever that may be, will resume.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Hi everyone,

I just want to wish you all a super Christmas!

Here are my three wishing everyone "HAPPY CHRISTMAS" (was filmed last year). You'll see my beautiful Mungo in the clip too...








 

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I hope you all have the best Christmas time - whilst I've had moments of "it's not going to happen this year!", somehow i think it just might all come together!

The kitchen is in, well almost done but no doors on, floor redone and grouted - don't ask and the chandelier is still waiting to be put in place, boo hoo. But it'll be up soon so hold on and the pics will follow.

All my love for a fabulous, happy and festive Christmas and to you all a happy, healthy and joyful New Year to come.

Much Love Claire, Dan, Tom Joe and Maddie

xx

Quick fire questions with Will Gowing

The lovely Will captured me yesterday and we had a little chat, or that's what he said… then came the questions.

He does make me laugh, brings out the naughty side of me I think, though think he edited it a little as you know me I cannot have just one answer nor can I be succinct!

I couldn't for the life of me think exactly where Southwold was! Oh dear the brain cells are a worry, mind you I've had the Mickey taken mercilessly about my sense of direction for my entire life so it seems only right to allow my ignorance to be fully displayed for you all! 

Thank you so much for your thoughtful replies...

Thank you all so much for your truly thoughtful replies, and thank you for understanding. Do you know it's made me cry again, yet also take comfort in the thought that all our beloved furry friends are careering madly around together up there.

We had the most loveliest moments on our farewell walk, we certainly were a sight en masse with five lovely dogs, and one in our hearts. The sun was shining and it really was so perfect.

Farewell Mungolina…

They say that to lose your pet feels as if you've lost your best friend... well for us last week the sadness of that happened.

Our darling and beautiful Mungolina was found to have cancer and she was in terrific pain, for thankfully only a really, really short time before it was found. So the impossibly hard yet necessary decision to help her to sleep and go to heaven was made.

Dreams really do come true...

So, dreaming and wishing and hoping and praying really DID work and here is my proof. She's called Gypsy. Not the most original of names I know, but Maddie and I just felt she should be just Gypsy!

All the thoughts and day dreams I had and now 'she' sits in my garden just as I'd always pictured her to be. For those of you who knew my dream and shared your lovely thoughts with me, can you believe it? Woo, hoo!!

You may be thinking I'm mad, but how has this finally happened at the ripe old age of 44? Especially after tears on my 40th as I had expectations, so disappointingly dashed at dinner by Dan, who pre-empting the fall out was telling me in a public place that I had in fact two hopes… Bob and none!

Hello to you all…

Can you hear the audible gasps all around?! Yes t’is me! Today I shall sit and chat with you – as if I don’t do that enough already on air! But this is minus the bossy producers and directors…but sssssh don’t tell them I said that. I’m joking, as without them I’d witter on and we’d run out of time. And believe me, if our connection fails and fear and panic sets in, then it’s all about team work at QVC!

Deep breath and off I go...

Surely I’ll be OK and be able to start a blog. A what, I hear you cry. It’s about time too.
 
But where on earth shall I start? Shall it be a casual “Hello.” No, no, no that’s so not enough. How about a little catch up? No, tooooo much has been happening for that! So, OK, I think I’ll just dive in and hope my ramblings will make sense and that you’ll actually want to read my blog...
 
Firstly, I would like to say a great big, humungous THANK YOU to you all for bearing with me and I hope you can forgive me for my lack of action on the blog page. I hope you don’t feel I’ve abandoned you and will accept me back in to your lovely fold!!!