My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.

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

I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.

I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.

I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.

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.