I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.