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.

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.

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

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

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

There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.