If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.

As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?

The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.

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

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.