But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty.

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants.

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world.

Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, ‘Please do something about football.’

I don’t actually get recognised. I only have my hair done and make-up put on when I am on TV. The rest of the time, I go out without make-up on, so people don’t recognise me.

Remember, it’s very simple to have an oven tested professionally, and it only takes about five minutes.

In 35 years of being in the media, I’ve had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It’s not the first time. It’s nothing unusual. I’ve been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.

I don’t get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can’t unwind.

I’ve never done any advertising because I feel I am in a position of trust, and that has been very liberating.