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

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

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.

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.

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