It’s often said we have a habit of donning rose-tinted glasses when looking back. But, could indulging in a bit of nostalgia be good for us sometimes? Denise van Outen loves blasting out Nineties classics in her DJ sets – and it makes sense. Advertisement “I think a lot of music from then has really stood the test of time, and I guess a lot of people that were out partying in the Nineties, we are at an age now where perhaps we’ve had kids and started families – and you reminisce about the time when you were young, free and single and just having a really good time.
“There was also a lot of really fun TV then. It was a real decade of just a lot of fun,” says the Essex-born actress, singer and Celebrity Gogglebox star, who also got her TV big break in the Nineties presenting Channel 4’s seminal morning entertainment show, The Big Breakfast. Advertisement View this post on Instagram Advertisement A post shared by Denise Van Outen ⚡️ (@vanouten_denise) But it wasn’t just the entertainment of the time that was different.
This was also the tail-end of the pre-smartphones era, so being ‘in the moment’ came a lot more easily. Advertisement “We never had access to everything on our smartphone. So, you’d go out and you’d just be in the moment and really enjoy it,” says van Outen, who turned 50 in May and shares 14-year-old daughter, Betsy, with her ex-husband Lee Mead.
“I remember going to the big festivals like Glastonbury and Reading and you wouldn.