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

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

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'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.