I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.

You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.

On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might think. My mates weren't bothered. My dad was in business.. he knew that it happened, too. He loaned me the money to bail me out, and I got a loan from the bank to pay him back.

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.

You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much.

No, what I am doing is kind by telling people who are useless, "Do something that you're good at".

We felt the time was right to open up the boundaries, and say to all of America, regardless of your age, whether you're 2, whether you're 100, regardless of what you believe your talent is - juggling, magic, singing - this is the show you can enter. It's as simple as that.