Look, I just read out loud for a living. Most of my friends are doctors or lawyers, people I went to university with, they're on the train at 7 A.M. and don't get home until 7 P.M. They work bloody hard, and they're allowed to be overwhelmed. I don't think I'm allowed, really.
— Claudia Winkleman
I've never felt the need to show that I am either clever or tall because I'm not.
I don't want to be doing anything else, I just want to be with my family.
I prefer to stick to my old-lady goth/Steve Tyler look. I've found my look - white lipstick, black eyeliner, black clothes.
I don't have any secrets; I don't believe in secrets.
I love that ageing rocker look, dressed in black and looking like you slept in your make-up.
I am allergic to sweating. Seriously I get in shape by lying down.
Uggs are great.
I watch 'Question Time' religiously.
I don't work very hard. I dye myself orange and I read out loud in the months from September to December when 'Strictly' is on.
I can't stand people who say they've got 'Africa fatigue.'
Ads are cool.
I really like Jon Snow in quite an unhealthy way - he's got a jaunty tie and a fast brain.
I don't think I'd get employed if I did pastel eye and a side parting. People would say: 'Get someone else for the job!'
My mum raised me in a home without mirrors. She's a staunch feminist and wanted us to know that what we look like is the least interesting thing about us.
I go to bed with as much makeup on as I can so I look cooler in my dreams.
Things I am allergic to: people who believe in star signs and think nothing of starting a conversation with: 'Hi, my name's Lucy. I'm a Sagittarius;' rodents (apart from miniature hamsters, which are not in fact rodents but small, breathing, brown balls of cotton wool); and people who go to the gym.
You've never met anyone who likes Christmas more than me. I go quite Liberace. My kids have all got stick-on antlers.
The only thing I'm obsessed with is sleeping. I'm really good at it and if I don't do it I'm horrible.
My twenties were painful. You had to go out to nightclubs. I love not having to pretend to enjoy those things anymore.
I had a go with Botox but looked both scared and surprised at the same time. I don't like to be either.
I've never knowingly taken my make-up off. The stuff you see me in I first put on in the 70s.
I don't like anything too perfect, or anyone who looks like they have just stepped out of a salon; that's not for me.
It's deep in the south of India and next to Goa, but thankfully the folk who like Goa haven't worked out that Kerala is a lot nicer and just next door. You do feel that you are discovering somewhere entirely new in Kerala. It makes you feel like you are on a totally different planet.
I was a sucker for glamorous women in shoulderpads eating fancy things like eggs benedict.
When I want to feel especially grateful, I think about the early days dressing up as an orange for Fruit Awareness Week.
I'd like my children to remember all the cuddles and bedtimes, and that I worshipped them unconditionally.
I love PG Wodehouse.
I loved 'Life is Beautiful' and action films are great, like 'Die Hard.' My favourite is the mob film - 'Goodfellas,' 'The Godfather,' 'Once Upon a Time In America,' anything with Robert De Niro in it.
I don't like ads: I'm too susceptible. I find myself in the supermarket buying Ronseal, and I don't even have a shed.
I grew up not worrying about my looks.
My husband thinks I'm insane.
I always have eyeliner in the house. There might be no bread, we might be out of milk, but there's always eyeliner.
If you asked 100 women on the street who they'd like to be, I'm sure most of them would say Kirsty Wark or Germaine Greer. Yawn. Do me a favour - they're lying.
I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.
Even when my mum used to edit the paper she would come home, put us to bed and then go back to the office. She must have been exhausted. She worked on Sunday papers so I always had her on Mondays. I loved Mondays! She would always be waiting for me outside school. I remember feeling very loved.
I think I was born aged about 86.
I don't believe in Chap Stick, I'm going to say that right now. Carmex can sometimes feel like too much of an attack. It's just too much sometimes.
Once, when I was 14 I thought easily the most glamorous thing was white eyeliner inside the eye and then heavy lip liner round the mouth. I think I looked repellent.
If I could grow my fringe down to my shoulders to cover my entire face and occasionally peer out to answer questions I would. It's my beauty security blanket.
I'd love to spend a month in China.
I like cookery shows much more than my husband, so I put them on the minute he goes away.
I never go to parties. I never go to premieres. You can't play that game, because it's short-lived and you want a life.
On 'Richard And Judy' I dressed up as an orange for Fruit Awareness Week.
Jane Austen is one of my all-time favourites.
I am box-set girl; I buy into those big American series like 'The Sopranos' and 'Heroes.'
I used to spend hours reading the Sunday papers, but then I had 900 children so I don't any more.
I'm confident without make-up on and I only wear it for work.
I never take my makeup off.
All my life, I have avoided any sort of exercise. I don't enjoy sweating and I think people who show off about having just done 20 press-ups are pretty weird.
