If anything, people think it's cool that I'm still working. I'm proud to be a working mama in this world.

It will really break my heart when I say bye to 'Breakfast'... but I will be pleased to get my life back.

I don't really trust people who don't like dogs. We always had dogs on the farm I grew up on near Bolton.

I don't mind the fact that people hate me. Nobody likes anyone who's been on the telly as long as I have.

A bad outfit can really get me down. If I'm wearing something really normal and boring, it's like torture.

I choose what to wear depending on how I feel and what I'm comfortable in. That's when you look your best.

You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?

My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love.

I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.

I do respect the political process and those that cover politics on a regular basis. It's just not for me.

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

I love bold, colorful party dresses because they don't need accessories. Just throw one on and you're done.

I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.

One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life.

If I don't have my 1-Day Acuvue Moist Brand Multifocal contact lenses in, I simply don't feel as confident.

I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.

Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.

I love most things in my life. I feel it's important to try and live life through adventure, colour and love.

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

People seem to trust you more when you're pregnant. I think they see you as some kind of Mother Earth figure.

Women need to be treated equally as men, but there are issues with the term feminist and people balk at that.

I'd like to do radio forever, really. I prefer it to telly. It's more immediate and I'm in control of it all.

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.

Be prepared for disappointment and frustration. Be persistent and bounce back even more determined to succeed.

Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself

Everybody has a bad hair day, but us girls still like to be told we look nice even if we don't feel like we do.

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.

If I wear lipstick, my lips take over my face - I've got one of those mouths - so I stick to gloss or lip balm.

I think I am quite a morning person naturally, I think it may be breakfast radio that has made me be like that.

I love roast dinners, simple avocado salads, spicy Vietnamese papaya salad, all fish and seafood, a good steak.

I do like my little smoothie in the morning with a bit of spinach, a bit of Manuka honey and some frozen fruit.

There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.

On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.

There's something really raw and exciting about grabbing a lump of clay and creating something unique out of it.

I'm not really into getting bunches of flowers if I'm a bit under the weather, I'd rather have something to eat.

I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks.

My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was what my dad had done.

I do not see how hanging litter louts up by their heels and beating them with sticks could be considered a crime.

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

My best party friend...? Fifi Brown. And Poppy Delevingne. She's so fun and so inclusive - she really is the glue.

He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.

Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the US, but I didn't click with anyone.

I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.

I live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life - I wouldn't have it any other way.

I don't think love should make you feel uneasy. When you feel sick, I don't think that's love - that's infatuation.

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