An overweight guy went to the doctor who advised him to try a keep fit DVD. But the guy said he couldn't be bothered. “Well” suggested the doctor, “try something that leaves you a little short of breath.” So the buy took up smoking.

I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.

I just don't like travelling very much.

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.

My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wanky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.

You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a time, please.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.