I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather th….

In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, ….

I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and….

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted..

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time..

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incr….

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad..

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity..

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other….

I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child….

There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know..

Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected ….

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying..

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London..

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so..

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually b….

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

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

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

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..

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