Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

I loved doing 'Countdown.' I now consider that I was very, very lucky - not just because it was such a wonderful show to do, but because it lasted for so long.

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

I would never say never to marrying again but for the time being I'm having a great time.

I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.

A woman who had fallen out of love with her life

You make the best out of it, you can. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as you think it will be. It's what you make of it.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

Their devotion showed me there were no versions of love there was only... Love. That it had no equal and that it was worth searching for, even if that search took a lifetime.

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

Yes, I'm the real Sammy Sosa, and this is my Pinterest.