One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.

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

I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.

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

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

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

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?'