This is going to make me sound 100 years old, but I really loved David Cassidy in 'The Partridge Family.'

I was at a film premiere that George Clooney was attending and I was very star-struck. We weren't having a long conversation or anything, but I was definitely slightly in awe of him.

I saw 'The Theory of Everything,' which I loved, but I'm afraid I hardly ever get to go to the cinema.

There is a thing about women, in particular, being endlessly grateful for the opportunities in life, rather than saying, 'I'm here because I'm good.'

My kids once said, 'What would you do if you hadn't got us?' I replied, 'I'd be more successful and I'd have more friends, but I wouldn't be as happy.'

I'm astonished at the freedom with which a depressingly large number of men feel they can just say what they want and write the most hideously misogynistic stuff about women.

I was the first person in my family to go to university so it was quite a big deal for us.

Outside certain parameters, I don't consider myself that serious a person.

Really, I've been at the BBC too long and have spent too much time out on the road to worry about being judged as a clothes horse.

The standards by which a woman's appearance is judged on the news are different to men, there's no question about that. Our clothes are different, for starters, they're much more varied, they're commented upon, there's no question about that. But do you have to be really good-looking? I don't think that's true.

The audience is an absolutely critical part of 'Question Time' and selecting that audience is a big and very important job every week. What we need to do every week without fail is make the audience politically representative of the picture across the nation.

When I started in news on the 'Six O'Clock,' I was 36 and felt very inexperienced.

I've worked hard, but I've been lucky too.

Of course, I'd love to be regarded as a voice of authority.

With two older brothers, I was a tomboy in one sense, but on the other hand I really loved dolls. My brothers weren't very happy when I nicked their Action Men to play with my dolls and they were appalled when I made them kiss my Barbies.

My father was MD of Unilever, so we followed him around the world.

I was born in Singapore, but I left at four so memories are hazy.

I don't know anything about antiques. I do buy them now, but I have a little knowledge, and great enthusiasm.

If you're in people's living-rooms, via the television, it's what happens. You're more noticeable. But I'm not aware that anyone has said I pay a lower rate of tax. I don't. I pay my full share of tax, believe you me.

Well, not everyone wants to lead the kind of life I lead.

As an army marches on its stomach, I vacation on mine. And for that reason, among others, I found myself in holiday heaven in Singapore.

No matter how beautiful a spot I find myself in, if the food ain't up to much, I won't enjoy myself.

Within less than an hour of arriving in Singapore, it was clear we had arrived in a country where eating has been elevated to the status of a national pastime.

Muscat itself is a mixture of impersonal modern buildings, shopping malls, mosques, traditional souks, tarmac and sand.