Family is everything to me.

My father describes himself as a Pole of Lithuanian descent. At Southampton University, he read aeronautical engineering and then the family moved to Hong Kong - this was before I was born - where he designed aeroplanes. Back in the U.K., he worked as a civil engineer, although every spare minute was spent researching his family's history.

There have been a lot of technical advances in the bra industry over the years, (such as those with Cellophane straps that are supposed to look as if you're not wearing them), but the maternity bra is still stuck in the 1940s.

I love a bit of Saturday-night TV.

You can do a lot worse than spend an hour a week singing. We should prescribe choirs on the NHS for anxiety and stress.

I'm going to be 50 in 2018 and I figure that I should try to get as much in before then. After 50, you never know what might happen.

Normally we go in, we do a series and then that's it, we're axed!

I'm always ludicrously early/on time.

I'm bad on passive aggression. I know that.

My job with Sue on 'Bake Off' was to look after the bakers - and to be honest, a lot of that was done off screen as well as on screen. It's very much the same on 'Let It Shine.' You get to know people, you get involved, you want things to be alright.

People are used to seeing me with Sue but for Sue and me, the most important thing is always going to be our friendship. We were mates at university - very close mates - long before we did any telly. The work is like a nice little cherry on the cake.

The Bake Off' can get emotional, but 'The Gift' is a whole different league!

The Gift' doesn't deal with the neat, tie-me-up-with-a-bow kind of stories - they are grittier, messier, and not all of them have a happy resolution. You are following people and events that are more difficult, more elusive, and therefore harder to pin down.

It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on 'The Gift.'

The strength of 'The Gift' is that the people featured and their stories are given the space to speak for themselves.

Hate showers, they're weird.

It's a very basic, simple idea, isn't it - saying thank you, saying sorry - and in the overcomplicated, over-busy world we live in it is very powerful.

I think if you're 50 you just ruddy say it.

I don't like it when people lie about their age.

We love live because of the roughness round the edges, the excitement, the madness, and stuff going off on all sorts of weird tangents. It's like hosting a jolly in your house. We're welcoming people in and giving them snacks.

We would pay for our own shows, we would put them on, we did everything ourselves, so I've always totally loved being on a stage in front of an audience, that is where I feel most happy really.

There is a baked item in the show, I'm there.

I'm completely recipe-bound. Everything has to be prepped and laid out in separate bowls with a Do Not Disturb sign on the door. I've no flair.

I'm not on Twitter because I'm worried I'd be really dull, which would be tragic for someone who's supposed to be funny.

There is surely a finite amount of European baked goods, isn't there?

The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.

I don't want to take things for granted.

Comedy can become quite addictive actually.

Mum and Dad have both got very well-tuned senses of humour.

It was an honour to be asked to do 'The Gift.' The producers took a risk asking me because, coming from a comedy background, I am not known for this kind of highly-charged, emotional show.

Nobody likes a presenter melting in a self-indulgent puddle of tears.

I'm really proud of 'The Gift.' There are stories we can all relate to - a first love that went wrong, a person who bullied us at school, a kind person we took for granted.

At Trinity College there was a coterie of the poshest of the posh, people you didn't ever see, they were so posh. They went to each other's rooms and, at weekends, each other's estates. I preferred to be with the weirdo bunch of raggle-taggle thesps.

I got into Cambridge and it all went downhill.

I would not describe myself as the best Catholic - I'm a bit of a cherry-picker. I like the community of it.

I probably go to church two Sundays out of four.

My kids both had Catholic junior school education, which I'm really glad for - it taught them how to be compassionate, how to be kind.

I've never seen 'Light Lunch' - only clips. But I do remember from those clips that there was a lot of bounding about and energy and I think that's probably slightly lessened over the years.

Of course there's pressure on you whatever timeslot you're doing, but I think there's more pressure on you as you go into the evening and I think being tucked away in a nice teatime arena feels quite nice.

People can now get to see anything they want, in any shape or form, anywhere, on laptop, iPad or 'phone. What's not controllable, though, is the live element. So there's still a real thrill for TV viewers in watching actors pulling it all together and performing live, and a real challenge for the actors.

I can hold a tune but it's a bit ropey.

Noel Fielding is a friend of mine and I love what he does.

I love performing in front of a live audience and just stepping out in front of ruddy Royal Albert Hall is just something, I can't describe it.

Performing on radio is great, you roll up with no makeup in pyjamas and nobody will know.

My siblings and I have got the worst teeth in Britain.

The Bake Off' taps into nostalgic feelings about your mum baking in the kitchen. It's a big ruddy comfort blanket, and you get attached to the bakers. It also genuinely has a good heart.

I take each thing as it comes and try and give it 110 per cent - it's just a blessing to be able to do different things.

I've always done stuff on stage, so it feels very natural.

I feel very lucky. 'Bake Off' has opened more doors for me. I was so delighted to get the job.

As someone who is a dedicated fan of the NHS, I'm extremely worried, I think its a very precious thing that needs to be nurtured, looked after.