Nina Wadia: The People-Pleaser Who Quit at 55

On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Nina Wadia, who stood silently at a restaurant desk until a rude receptionist noticed, then asked her if she was all right. That’s what Nina sounds like now she’s stopped people-pleasing. She explains why 55, not 60, was the age that changed her. She talks about clearing out the friendships that left her feeling worse, and about her husband turning grumpy the day he hit 60. She also takes us back to the green room at Theatre Royal Stratford East, where she was ready to give up acting until someone told her to go and write something.

She went from Goodness Gracious Me to seven years as Zainab in EastEnders. She’s also honest about this year, when the work went quiet in a way she hadn’t known in 38 years, and about whether her mum was right that she should have been a barrister. At this age, she says, yes. Nina’s new digital chat show, What Do You Wanna Know?, is coming soon.

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