A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room - press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.