Cyndi Brings True Colors, Borscht and Zero Filter to the Table
Royal courts in England, sound thee alarm. American Pop Queen Cyndi Lauper has arrived at the table — specifically Jessie and Lennie Ware’s — for one gloriously Cyndi-sized episode of Table Manners.
The episode originally dropped on February 5, 2025 as Season 17, Episode 18 of Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware, with Lauper joining the mother-daughter duo for lunch in central London and a little homemade borscht courtesy of Lennie.
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CYNDI COMES TO THE TABLE
Cyndi Lauper joins Jessie and Lennie Ware for food, family stories, career memories and one very Cyndi conversation.
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And naturally, this is not one of those interviews where a legend drops in, recites the press-release bullet points and quietly exits through the nearest velvet curtain.
Across the roughly hour-long conversation, Cyndi talks about growing up in a house packed with extended family, the trouble she used to make for her priest, and her method for getting an Italian pasta sauce exactly where it needs to be.
There is also the extremely specific revelation that spinach once gave her kidney stones, which is precisely the sort of dinner-table information a podcast named Table Manners should be extracting from its guests.
Cyndi Lauper Gets Serious About Advocacy and Saying Goodbye to Touring
The conversation also moves into far more meaningful territory as Lauper discusses her longstanding LGBTQIA+ advocacy and the work that has remained central to her public life well beyond the records.
Then comes one of the biggest confirmations in the episode: Cyndi tells Jessie and Lennie that the Girls Just Want to Have Fun Farewell Tour really is intended to be her last major tour.
That does not make the conversation especially mournful, though. This is Cyndi Lauper we are talking about. There are family stories, food opinions, career memories and enough personality flying around the room to keep anything from becoming too reverential.
Which is exactly why Table Manners works so well with somebody like Lauper. Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie built the show around food, family and oversharing, and Cyndi has never exactly been known for giving a beige answer when a technicolor one is available.
Watch Cyndi Lauper on Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
The Season 17 episode features Lauper in conversation with Jessie and Lennie Ware about family, food, advocacy and her farewell-tour plans.
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