In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

Julian Fellowes doesn't come to the set, except maybe once every six weeks, for whatever reason. He's not a producer, in that sense. But if you write him a one-line question, he'll write you a three-page answer.

In the age of the camera phone it's a bit weird when you're sitting having dinner in a restaurant and people think they're being very subtle taking a photo while in fact they're being very obvious. When you're in a middle of a mouthful with friends or family and people come up asking for a photograph, that's when you want to say, 'Actually, I'm going to say no; I'd like to finish my meal. This is my time.'