The singer, 50, on snuggles with the dog, ‘grounding’ in the garden, and listening to Prince in the bath
How do famous names spend their precious downtime? In our weekly My Saturday column, celebrities reveal their weekend virtues and vices. This week: Beverley Knight
My husband James [O’Keefe, an entrepreneur and health coach] gets up crazy early but I’ll just open an eye, register that he has got up, then drift off again. I tend to stir when Zain, our rescue dog, bounds in. We’ll have a lovely mummy and dog snuggle.
I go into the garden and do grounding for 10 minutes. Without sounding knobby, this is just standing with my bare feet on the grass, so I get the nice vibrations from the earth. It’s healing.
I’ll walk Zain from our home in Finsbury Park to Highgate. Sometimes I’ll listen to a podcast – I like British Scandal. Or I’ll practise my breathing – five gentle breaths in, seven out – which expands your lung capacity and calms you down. I tend not to eat breakfast, but I’ll pop to the gym after we get back.