I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.

My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed, there was never recourse to benefits, so if money was tight, money was tight. It taught me that we were a closed unit, and that we had to be resourceful.

Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right."

I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.

It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.