# S9, Ep2: Ellie Simmonds, Paralympian

An episode of [Comfort Eating with Grace Dent](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1571446706), 25 Feb 2025, 48 min.

Audio: https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/02/24-36107-gdn.CE.25022025.hm.EllieSimmonds.mp3

This week on Comfort Eating, Grace is joined by five-time Paralympic gold medalist Ellie Simmonds. At 30, Ellie has hung up her goggles and retired from swimming, but instead of claiming an early pension, she has turned her hand to disability activism and documentary making – in 2024 she won a Bafta for her documentary Finding My Secret Family. She talks to Grace about the food that sustained her gruelling swim training schedule, her celebratory McDonald’s order during the Paralympics, and her secret recipe for orange scones. Ellie also opens up about accusations of bullying within British Para-Swimming in the buildup to Rio 2016

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