I don't want to take things for granted.

The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.

There is surely a finite amount of European baked goods, isn't there?

I'm not on Twitter because I'm worried I'd be really dull, which would be tragic for someone who's supposed to be funny.

I'm completely recipe-bound. Everything has to be prepped and laid out in separate bowls with a Do Not Disturb sign on the door. I've no flair.

There is a baked item in the show, I'm there.

We would pay for our own shows, we would put them on, we did everything ourselves, so I've always totally loved being on a stage in front of an audience, that is where I feel most happy really.

We love live because of the roughness round the edges, the excitement, the madness, and stuff going off on all sorts of weird tangents. It's like hosting a jolly in your house. We're welcoming people in and giving them snacks.

I don't like it when people lie about their age.

I think if you're 50 you just ruddy say it.

It's a very basic, simple idea, isn't it - saying thank you, saying sorry - and in the overcomplicated, over-busy world we live in it is very powerful.

Hate showers, they're weird.

The strength of 'The Gift' is that the people featured and their stories are given the space to speak for themselves.

It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on 'The Gift.'

The Gift' doesn't deal with the neat, tie-me-up-with-a-bow kind of stories - they are grittier, messier, and not all of them have a happy resolution. You are following people and events that are more difficult, more elusive, and therefore harder to pin down.

The Bake Off' can get emotional, but 'The Gift' is a whole different league!

People are used to seeing me with Sue but for Sue and me, the most important thing is always going to be our friendship. We were mates at university - very close mates - long before we did any telly. The work is like a nice little cherry on the cake.

My job with Sue on 'Bake Off' was to look after the bakers - and to be honest, a lot of that was done off screen as well as on screen. It's very much the same on 'Let It Shine.' You get to know people, you get involved, you want things to be alright.

I'm bad on passive aggression. I know that.

I'm always ludicrously early/on time.

Normally we go in, we do a series and then that's it, we're axed!

I'm going to be 50 in 2018 and I figure that I should try to get as much in before then. After 50, you never know what might happen.

You can do a lot worse than spend an hour a week singing. We should prescribe choirs on the NHS for anxiety and stress.

I love a bit of Saturday-night TV.