Talking to celebrities is too much effort. They all think the same.

I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die

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

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

Maybe I am a bit mad.

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. Kids turn up unrehearsed, wearing the wrong clothes, singing out of tune and you can either say, "Good job" and patronize them or tell them the truth, and sometimes the truth is perceived as mean.