I will do my best to entertain. That's what I am: an entertainer.

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 have always worked and I would say I'm generous with money - if somebody needed anything I would always give it to them.

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 know a lot of people didn't expect our relationship to last - but we've just celebrated our two months' anniversary.

There are so many young women who throw their talent away.