My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it.

I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.

I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.