Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

People always say theres no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think theyre right, because it seems self-evident: nobodys going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybodys talking about.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

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

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.