I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.

I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.