English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

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

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

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.

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

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

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.