If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out..

As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance ….

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche..

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime..

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo..

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly..

If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is m….

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's wher….

If no one saw - it didn't count. It's only when you eat in front of strangers or people that make you feel guilty that food is really fattening..

The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too..

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes….

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life..

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life wh….

I don't subscribe to the 'Doctor Who' magazine and we've only got the normal amount of 'Doctor Who' fridge magnets..

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People li….

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be..

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain..

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table..

When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list..

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's..

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?.