I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

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

I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

I don't get star-struck at all.

My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.