Entertainer

I try to look after my voice. I am very aware that if I am going to be doing a voice over the next day or on the radio, not to go out to a really noisy place or shout.

To be honest I see myself as a broadcaster, I'm just on the radio a lot. So I don't really feel like I'm getting papped on the school run with my belly in.

When I was working for Radio 1 in Ibiza I stayed in a horrible place with a tiny window and really noisy air conditioning - the last thing you need in Ibiza, where you're often a little bit the worse for wear at the end of the night.

I'm really good at turning off lights, it's a working-class thing.

I recommend to any women just to find a gym that's got proper women there; lots of mums and lots of regular shaped women.

There's something really raw and exciting about grabbing a lump of clay and creating something unique out of it.

I've always loved horses.

It would come as quite a shock to my younger self that my first job was modelling. I was scouted, aged 18, when I went to Paris to visit my older sister, Yvonne, who was at uni there.

My favourite organic recipe is probably a huge batch of chilli con carne cooked with organic low fat British minced beef, tons of kidney beans, tomatoes and baked beans.

It's really important to make the time to curl up and not look at a screen at night. Just to escape into a good book.

I'm not very good with spending money.

Your 20s are for partying, your 30s - if you choose to have kids or are lucky enough to have them - are when you give yourself over to childcare, and then in your 40s it just becomes about you a bit more.

I was always myself. I never pretended I'd been to a gig the night before and was hanging out with Rita Ora, because that's not what I do.

I love roast dinners, simple avocado salads, spicy Vietnamese papaya salad, all fish and seafood, a good steak.

I'm always trying to get back towards some sort of farm-type life.

I don't really trust people who don't like dogs. We always had dogs on the farm I grew up on near Bolton.

I do like my little smoothie in the morning with a bit of spinach, a bit of Manuka honey and some frozen fruit.

I'm obsessed with the BBC comedy 'Mum.'

When I was really little, I wanted to be a vet. My four older siblings and I grew up on my dad's beef farm near Bolton, and I loved all our animals.

I love finding out how authors work, because it can either go full Carrie in 'Homeland,' with loads of Post-it Notes and string on the wall and they know everything that's happening in the plot - or they let the characters tell them where they want to go and what happens next.