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IZZY JUDD
After putti utting down her violin to have children, the musician is back doing what she loves best. But, she tells us, her new release is still a family affair
IzzyJudd is a classically trained violinist and bestselling author, but when it comes to impressing her three young children, her McFly star husband Harry – Strictly Come Dancing’s’ 2011 champion – tends to nab the spotlight.
“Daddy gets a lot of airtime in our house,” says the mum of Kit, six, two-year-old Lockie and Lola, eight this month. “Lola loves Strictly, so he can show her his dances, and Kit is totally obsessed with guitars and drums so McFly gets a good showing.”
It’s little wonder, then, that when 39-year-old Izzy created her new EP Moments – a collection of soothing violin tracks – she was rather chuffed that it got her little ones’ seal of approval. “It’s nice that they now ask Alexa to play my music. They find it really funny that they can ask it to ‘play Mummy’.”