Grab your Mickey ears and get set for a slice of summer Disney travel magic as Walt Disney Travel Company returns on Wednesday 8th June with episode 4 of the all-new second series of its popular podcast ‘Journey to the Magic’ with host Giovanna Fletcher chatting with TV judge, author, singer and Disney super-fan Alesha Dixon.
In the brilliant and upbeat episode Alesha reveals the first Disney film she watched was Bambi, how she has visited all the Disney parks – and how magical it’s been to take her eldest daughter to Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
Alesha also speaks about how her holidays have changed in the world – from relaxing, to having two young daughters to keep her on her toes, she also talks about not being able to switch off while away – and collecting magnets when she was in girl band Mis-Teeq!
A new fun-packed episode of the six-part Journey to the Magic series is being released every Wednesday from 18th May and concluding on 29th June and are available wherever you listen to your podcasts.
Talking to host Giovanna about her last holiday – to the Maldives for the New Year – Alesha admits she was petrified of catching Covid and risking not going away, so she cancelled her festive plans…
Alesha Dixon says: “We went to the Maldives for a week and then we popped to Dubai on the way back, but I wish I stayed in the Maldives. Once you’re in the Maldives you really switch off and relax. I should have done it the other way round, started in Dubai and then onto the Maldives.
“It was so nice being away at New Year, and after last New Year, after the year that we all had, I said to my other half that there is absolutely no way I am going to be in the UK next New Year, I need to be away. So that was my mission, and so I cancelled all my plans with family and friends before Christmas because I was petrified I would catch Covid. And I thought ‘this PCR test has to be negative, I am getting on that flight! Sorry cousin, I’ll catch-up with you in January’.
Alesha joked about her need for a sun tan: “I mean, I was starting to look so pale, I nearly didn’t look mixed-race! Honestly, even my other half was like, ‘this is the whitest I’ve ever seen you – you need a suntan, love!’ I needed to go and top up my tan, I needed to relax and honestly, it’s the most relaxed I’ve felt in such a long time, I needed it.”
