A biography for Helen Skeltonhasn’t been written yet.
“That's just the culture that television breeds. No one wants to be difficult. You want to bring solutions, not problems.”
“I was lucky to spend so long on 'Blue Peter' and 'Newsround' and if you are a bit giddy, like I am, a bit daft, like I am, and you are the kind of person who makes lots of public mistakes, like I do, then it's sometimes hard for people to take me seriously.”
“Frankly, you're heading down a dangerous path if you take seriously what people say about you, and I don't read most of it.”
“Everyone asks me how to get into television. Ultimately, you have to work for free for years. As much as we enthuse about diversity, we are never going to be truly diverse because the system means only a certain section of society can do that.”
“I've been active and dedicated to health and fitness since I was 15 years old, but I don't do it because it's good for my backside, my abs or to look good. I do it because I enjoy it and get a total buzz out of it.”
“I once went down the Amazon and our boat got charged by Columbian policemen with guns and we all had to get on motorbikes and whip across town.”
“My kids are my priority, then my husband, then my life, then work.”
“Growing up on a Cumbrian farm showed me first hand that you get out of life what you put in. If you don't put crops in the ground, you can't feed your animals or earn money.”
“I am not an adventurer or a writer, I am a person who thinks life is too short and if there is something you fancy doing you should have a go and see how far you get.”
“I've done things that should be talked about, and covered serious issues that face our kids, but people aren't interested in that.”
“You should always encourage people. The worst that can happen is that they fail.”
“I know being an open, honest, outspoken person gets me into trouble all the time, but I don't know how to be any other way.”
“I often think about my dad. He couldn't name you half the government ministers but it doesn't mean that he hasn't got an opinion.”
“When you are a journalist and there is a big story like Dominic Cummings, it's great to be at the heart of it. What I love, and it sounds a bit cheesy, is you feel connected to other people.”
“I'm not body-conscious, but show me a woman who genuinely wants to show the tops of her thighs squashed on a leather bar stool.”
“I've got bigger legs than my husband, who's a rugby player, so trust me, if I was going to intentionally flash a part of my body, it wouldn't be my thighs!”
“For me having kids, it doesn't clip your wings, it gives you a different type of adventure to take, like you say you've got different priorities.”
“Living on the farm taught me that life is unpredictable and you need to put money away for a rainy day.”
“The scariest thing I ever did was give birth in the kitchen by myself, with my three-year-old bashing me on the head with a sword, but it's not like you have a choice is it.”
“People think you earn a fortune in TV, but that's not always the case, especially when you're working as a children's presenter.”