Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.

All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.

I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.

The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.