I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

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?'

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.