I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.

I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

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

I read that book Fat is a Feminist issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.