I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.

I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.

Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.

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.

I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.

I don't sleep with happily married men.