You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.

There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn’t mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.

I just don't like travelling very much.

Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.

I think it's so easy when you have children just to turn your focus inward on your family and because, when they're young, you don't sleep very much, you're walking around like a zombie most of the time anyway. It's a really important part of my life to have good friends, you have to work quite hard to keep the relationships going but it's worth it.

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.