Zoe Ball

“My advice to young girls would be, don't get on a sun bed and don't smoke - it wrecks your skin.”

“Everyone has a breaking point.”

“I know I'm not everyone's taste and that's fine, and that is the beauty of digital and radio that you can find what you want to listen to.”

“The kids are always so passionate. I feel like they are our protectors. They care so much about recycling and climate change.”

“When my brother and I were small, somebody pointed out that we looked like something out of 'The Dark Crystal.' I think it was affectionate, but I've never been an oil painting.”

“A stick of celery doesn't do it for me.”

“I remember seeing Norman Cook swimming in a pair of burgundy pants. I thought: 'Wow, he looks great.'”

“It's great fun to try to entertain.”

“It's taken me a long time to grow up.”

“It's a funny age, 40, you do suddenly feel a lot older.”

“The second time I was pregnant friends would give me rubber bands to gnaw, because the first time, I had chewed things like a rubber bit that fell off the dishwasher. I remember driving once in the rain and the smell of my rubber-soled shoes in the damp caused me to pull over and start chomping on the rubber mat.”

“I only ever wanted to be Barbra Streisand.”

“I went to Manchester, didn't know anyone, got a job as a runner and worked my butt off. I got paid 60 quid a week, and lived above a pub.”

“I think it's so isolating to be trapped in your mind like that, when you doubt yourself, you doubt everything you've ever known. You doubt your family love you. You doubt your friends care for you.”

“You know, I look at my kids or my friends and think 'I couldn't love you any more.' And then I do.”

“In my middle age I seem to love a bit of pastoral telly: 'Countryfile,' 'Springwatch.' I love watching people in nature. It's a moment of calm, it's a moment of meditation.”

“There is such a thing as too much fun.”

“I've never liked Madonna, she's nauseating.”

“There is no greater joy than watching your children grow, learn and laugh.”

“I have a really large family, so we have three big Christmas celebrations. This involves intense diary planning, compromising between the families - and serious food shopping.”