Jill Dando

Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.

I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.