Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me.