Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.

I've been very lucky, this is my 30th year on TV.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.