Carol Vorderman

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it.

The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.

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.

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

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.

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?