Jennifer O'Connell

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2,353 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5d ago

Jennifer O'Connell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Women's Podcast · Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

Well, I'm not.

And I think that message and when you peel away all the controversy and a lot of the controversy on the Internet seems to be around how ethical is it to feel sorry for, you know, this multimillionaire white divorcee who stupidly signed a ridiculous prenup that you should never have signed.

There's all of that.

But, you know, when you strip it away, like I think we talk an awful lot.

This is what I came down to anyway, and I've written a column about this at the weekend.

But I think we talk an awful lot about the cost of a wedding and we talk about it in terms of the cost of the hotel deposit, the cost of the flowers, the cost of the dress.

And the real cost, even when it does work out, this is my point, the real cost is the cost that you are still paying 10, 20, 30, 40 years later as an independent, autonomous financial being.

And you are definitely going to take a hit in almost all cases.

So I think that's just something that women and men need to talk about a little bit more.

And there are definitely ways around it and there are ways to be more egalitarian about care and more egalitarian about finances and everything.

But like, we don't even talk about it.

We don't even have those conversations, I think, typically.

Second holiday in a month.

I'm...

Going full Bell Burden over here.

So I'm also prepping for the Dorky Book Festival.

So I've been reading some books that are a little bit outside my normal reading, which is always brilliant.

I love to do that.

And one of them, this one has caused a bit of controversy and has not been met with widespread critical acclaim, unsurprisingly.

But I have

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