Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.

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

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

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

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

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.