I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.

I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.

So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.

It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done.

I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.

The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.