I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.

I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.

Ive not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.

As an actor, you never know where the works going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity Ive met as a result of Downton Abbey.

The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.

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