It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.

In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?

I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.

Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.

My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.

When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.

I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.