I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

By a lot of peoples standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.