Nothing beats that sloppy kiss of a six-month-old grandchild.

I don't like Johannesburg, where I grew up. Everybody lives in 'gated' buildings, is paranoid about crime and is always talking about being mugged. It's not a very joyful place.

Bake Off' has been a renaissance for me. I turn up, taste something and get paid rather well. What could be nicer?

I think the BBC likes to have Mary Berry and me around to rebut the charge of ageism.

It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don't see what it is that I'm meant to be bowing the knee about.

I probably eat yogurt more than anything else.

I think Paul Hollywood was quite perfectly within his rights to stay with Love Productions. They'd made him famous, he was getting a decent salary and he was enjoying it. Why shouldn't he stay with them?

People don't always behave the same way on different programmes. If you go to church you don't behave the same way you do at a party in the middle of the night.

Why don't women say what they want, why wait to be asked? Do women intuit that it is unacceptable to appear ambitious?