The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.

I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste.

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot.