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.

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.

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.

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

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

When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.