I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child.

I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child.

With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.

You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.

People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.

I'm very good at being out of work.