I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

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

I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and I said to Tom, 'Oh, my friend's a really, really big Doctor Who fan,' and he replied, 'Wait!' He got his cheque book out and asked, 'What his name?' I said 'David Tennant'. He wrote, 'To David Tennant, seventeen pounds forty five', signed it and I asked him what it meant. He said, 'He'll know'

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.