The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

I loved doing 'Countdown.' I now consider that I was very, very lucky - not just because it was such a wonderful show to do, but because it lasted for so long.

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

I would never say never to marrying again but for the time being I'm having a great time.

I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

Our success in ministry is not to elevate us but to glorify Him who has called and equipped us

Become your own success story, not someone else's.

Courage is always rewarded.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

George Carlin put it best. He said, "My old act was so easy to do because there was so little of me in it."

Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.

'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.