Gail porter

You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.

When you have children, that's your main focus.

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows...

TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.

I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.

Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.