Holly Willoughby's school-speech nerves reach The Beauty Desk
Sarah Jossel's interview anchors nine new uploads from The Sunday Times Style, with Anna Sawai's cover shoot adding a Marmite tasting.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Holly Willoughby on Giving Up the Blonde, Spirituality and Embracing the ‘Girl Next Door’ Look
Things we can learn from the video
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- 3:52Willoughby says she is not naturally blonde and considers embracing emerging grey hair.
- 6:20Her everyday makeup selection includes brown eyeliner and a pre-makeup facial mist.
- 11:16She recalls school-day shyness and explains how auditions and broadcasting helped her practise confidence.
- 21:03Willoughby embraces the "girl next door" label as Jossel recalls her accessible approach to television beauty.
- 29:30The episode includes a demonstration of Willoughby's Wylde Moon product collaboration with Beauty Pie.
- 32:02A guessing game puts famous celebrity hairstyles on Willoughby's face.
Live television is manageable for Holly Willoughby. A speech at her child's school is another proposition entirely. On The Beauty Desk, she explains to Sarah Jossel how someone who talks for a living can find a smaller, more personal audience daunting.
Their full conversation was The Sunday Times Style's most-watched new upload this week, reaching roughly 19,000 views. Familiarity helps give it shape: Jossel and Willoughby reminisce about working on This Morning before moving through the makeup bag, school-day shyness and the confidence that came with practice. "I had to fake confidence and then eventually it just becomes more normal," Willoughby says.
The blonde hair gets its own discussion, including her admission that it isn't natural and her thoughts on emerging grey. Later, she embraces the "girl next door" label, remembers her mother's fuchsia lipstick and tries on celebrity hairstyles through edited photographs. The episode also includes a product-collaboration demonstration involving her own brand.
Separate clips picked up the ageing and public-speaking threads. Elsewhere among the week's nine uploads, Anna Sawai went behind the scenes of her cover shoot at a former east London nightclub, with British snacks to try and questions about playing Yoko Ono in the Beatles films.
The busiest viewing, though, belongs to a slightly earlier escape: Gabrielle Caunesil Pozzoli's Venice Little Black Book, covering vintage jewellery, fabrics and Bellini stops. It is drawing more daily views than either new interview.
Subscribers stayed unchanged this week, while daily viewing sits modestly above the channel's usual level. Nearby magazine channels Esquire and SheerLuxe both added more weekly views, but Style's own week has a distinctive itinerary: Willoughby's dressing table, Sawai's cover set and a fashion insider's Venice.
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- Channel
- The Sunday Times Style
- Subscribers
- 221,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 278,849
- Videos published this week
- 9
- Video published
- November 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 18,673
- Views on its first day
- 7,286
The numbers
Here is how The Sunday Times Style's uploads and audience moved this week.
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Who hosts The Beauty Desk conversation with Holly Willoughby?
Beauty journalist Sarah Jossel hosts The Beauty Desk interview.


