I have made six big home moves in my life and I have never lost money on one I have lived in.

We should be encouraging people to earn a lot of money. I do not know one wealthy person who does not spend money - and most of them employ other people.

I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.

Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.

I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity.

When I was 16 I got a school holiday job at Minton's pottery factory in Staffordshire, packing plates. For a month's work, I was paid £44. Everything I now know about the birds and the bees, I learnt there.

I had started working in television but it did not pay that much. I was 27, renting this little one-bed flat in Shepherd's Bush, West London, with a bathroom so small only someone of my size could actually get in it.