I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.

To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

I didn't get attached to Botox. It is costly, and you have to remember to keep doing it.

I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.

I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.

Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.