No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

I look like Julian Clary on steroids.

One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.

I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.

Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.

I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'

When I was at school you got an overall general education, on many things, even just basic facts.