I pay a bit more than lip-service to health: I don't eat chips or pre-prepared food, and it might be a comedy sacrilege to admit I do like vegetables, fruit and salad and stuff.

The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

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.

Fat people are brilliant in bed. If I'm sitting on top of you, who's going to argue?

I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.

When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: "Here comes the bride, all fat and wide." Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.