I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.