The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.

I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.

Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.

Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

I hate reality shows like Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity. I'd rather watch a goldfish bowl.

Esther Rantzen, like me, is an egomaniac of the highest order.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn’t get published any other way.

I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

You can seize away my opportunities but never the passion that I possess.

It is my contention that ritual begins at home, in domestic magic.

A dream is always a bargain no matter what you pay for it

I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team.

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.