If I weren't talking to you right now I'd be. . .

Talking to someone else because I'm in a taxi. I'm going to a meeting at a publisher in Soho House. It's for a dating book I've got coming out.

A phrase I use far too often is. . .

"Do you know what I mean." I hate myself for doing it.

I wish people would take more notice of. . . How much work the Queen does and Prince Charles. I'm a great fan of the monarchy.

The most surprising thing that ever happened to me. . .

Ending up on telly.

A common misconception of me is. . . That I'm bossy all the time.

I'm not a politician but. . . I would ban any playing fields from being sold. Now we have children with heart conditions because they don't take enough exercise.

I'm good at. . . Catering for a lot of people.

But I'm very bad at. . . Tennis.

The ideal night out is. . . There's a restaurant near us called Le Tagine in Balham [in south London]. It would be a night with a whole load of friends there.

In moments of weakness I. . . Think too much and smoke cigarettes.

You know me as a presenter, but in a truer life I'd have been a. . . My main job is I have a building company so I would have carried on with that probably. I also have an investment company and a dating site.

I would have done all of those things anyway.

The best age to be is. . . About 18 because you're looking your finest then, but actually you have so little wisdom. I quite wish I had the skin I had when I was 18.

In a nutshell, my philosophy is this. . .

Positive things happen to positive people.