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People think prisons are dangerous and they may be but not for tv presenters (in my experience). I’ve been most afraid of animals and chimps in particular. Joe Exotic once told me he didn’t mind getting in a cage with a tiger too much but that he would never climb in a cage with a chimp. “They’ll rip your arm off and beat you to death with it,” is how he described it. Thanks. I’ll pass.

I look back at some of my early pieces and there is sometimes a note of judgment in the voiceover, which i don’t like. To be honest, most of my regrets have to do with my hair and my sartorial choices in the nineties. Or a tight jumper I wore for one documentary which showed the outline of my nipples.

No! It’s too short to ever get sick of it. What is it - about 15 seconds long? For me this was the summer of Jiggle Jiggle. I never dreamed I’d be considered relevant by the under tens.

That’s funny. It was 2003 and I had just made a series about UK celebrities in which I’d stay overnight at their houses. So I kind of had that format in my head. Also, I thought it was funny to push for intimacy in a slightly tongue in cheek way and to be rebuffed. I enjoyed the awkwardness of it.

I didn’t really learn a style. I just tried to ask about whatever I was curious about. I think I’m still learning to be honest. I still get it wrong and I’m very thankful that we have an editing process that means when I get it really wrong we can cut those parts out and I get to look like I’m more competent that I actually am