Jane Seymour: ‘I lived five minutes away from my partner for 30 years before we met’
How do famous names spend their precious downtime? In our weekly My Saturday column, celebrities reveal their weekend virtues and vices. This week: Jane Seymour
8am
I get up early all week so like to lie in on Saturdays. I go straight out into my Malibu garden, watch the seabirds and appreciate the nature.
9am
My first conversation – ‘Good morning, I love you’ – is with my partner John [Zambetti]. Then after a walk on the beach I’ll spend some time calling my children and catching up with their news. I don’t eat breakfast as I do intermittent fasting, and I only consume clear liquid until my first meal of the day which is around noon.
10am
Normally I’ll go and watch my granddaughter Luna playing soccer and I don’t get as excited as I used to. When I watched Luna’s mum Katherine, I was banned from the touchline for shouting too much and told, ‘It’s a coach’s job to scream, not yours.’ I watch quietly now.
Midday
I go down to the garden and pick kale, rocket, avocados, tomatoes and garlic. I have a bounty of vegetables. I make guacamole with some fish and roasted sweet potatoes, baked in the oven, not fried. That’s usually my main meal of the day and I like to keep it pretty healthy.
1pm
Saturdays tend to be work-free but when I was filming Harry Wild [the third series is on Acorn TV now] during Covid they were magical days as I’d invite the cast and crew and the writers to my deck – which was technically outside – and they’d bring a bottle, and we’d rehearse (and laugh and bitch), which was wonderful.
3pm
I love watercolours so I’ll either spend some time outside on the deck or at the kitchen table painting or I might do some weights or reformer Pilates in my home gym. There’s always music in the background, often The Beatles, and I’ll definitely have a dance, particularly with my granddaughter Willa who has just taken up ballet. Or we’ll write poetry together. As long as I’m being creative, I’m happy.
5pm
John and I will hang out at each other’s houses. We’ve lived five minutes from each other for 30 years but never met until more recently – even though our kids know each other. Sometimes we go for dinner at Soho House’s little restaurant on the beach. Or John – who is a musician – will take me out to see some under-the-radar live music.
8pm
If we’re staying in, we’ll binge watch something. Even though John had seen Live and Let Die before we met, that was about it. People keep telling him about Wedding Crashers and Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, so occasionally I’ll put one of those on, so he’s got some sort of concept of what people are talking about.
9pm
Before the sun goes down, we’ll get in the Jacuzzi with a glass of something fizzy and just reflect on how incredibly fortunate we are to be alive. My philosophy is that yesterday is past, I have no guarantee about tomorrow and can make no plans for it and it it’s going to be what it’s going to be, so if I’m not in the present moment and appreciating what’s happening right now and how I’m feeling right now and the choices I’m making, then I’m missing the point.
11pm
I’m usually asleep earlier but because tomorrow is Sunday my head will be on the pillow and I’ll be fast asleep by 11.
