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 would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

I'm a light sleeper, but so long as I'm wearing earplugs, I sleep well.

George Hamilton is one of the funniest men I have ever known.

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

I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.