I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable.

I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.