A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career.

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 don't sleep with happily married men.

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

I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.

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