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Hate showers, they're weird.
I'm very competitive about puns.
I wish I could play electric guitar.
I can hold a tune but it's a bit ropey.
I don't want to take things for granted.
Comedy can become quite addictive actually.
I'm bad on passive aggression. I know that.
There is a baked item in the show, I'm there.
I've spent my entire life spelling my surname.
We human beings are very dark, strange things.
I got into Cambridge and it all went downhill.
I probably go to church two Sundays out of four.
My siblings and I have got the worst teeth in Britain.
When you have a baby in showbiz, people think you've died.
Mum and Dad have both got very well-tuned senses of humour.
I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.
I feel very warmly and joyfully towards BBC Children in Need.
The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.
Normally we go in, we do a series and then that's it, we're axed!
Nobody likes a presenter melting in a self-indulgent puddle of tears.
There is surely a finite amount of European baked goods, isn't there?
It's a blessing to be able to do different things really, I feel so lucky.
You can't hurry a loaf of bread. You have to wait for it to prove and rise.
The Bake Off' can get emotional, but 'The Gift' is a whole different league!
I like Joan Jett's 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll' because it's got a nice low singing voice.
I met Sue Perkins at the Footlights, where she brought the house down at the auditions.
Believe me, you don't want to play to an audience of seven in a village hall in Cumbernauld.
It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on 'The Gift.'
I feel very lucky. 'Bake Off' has opened more doors for me. I was so delighted to get the job.
Any donation does make a difference. Getting involved is what makes BBC Children in Need so moving.
I would not describe myself as the best Catholic - I'm a bit of a cherry-picker. I like the community of it.
I don't like it when people leave their takeaways on the street: it makes me sad and it draws foxes and rats.
A bloke once yelled out: 'You've got chubby knees.' I was 19. I've had a real complex about my knees ever since.
There is something a bit volatile about hosting a big live show like 'Eurovision.' Anything could literally happen.
Maternity bras are the Alcatraz under-wear. If they were a door they'd have a mortise lock, a padlock and the rest.
Give more acting roles to 48-year-old half-Lithuanians who just don't want to be pigeon-holed as bakery presenters.
The strength of 'The Gift' is that the people featured and their stories are given the space to speak for themselves.
You can do a lot worse than spend an hour a week singing. We should prescribe choirs on the NHS for anxiety and stress.
I'm not on Twitter because I'm worried I'd be really dull, which would be tragic for someone who's supposed to be funny.
I take each thing as it comes and try and give it 110 per cent - it's just a blessing to be able to do different things.
Eurovision' lifts you off your feet - and, by that, I mean the absolute joy, total insanity and madness of the whole thing.
I had to sit down and promise the kids I would no longer have any spray tans. My husband started sending me the carrot emoji.
Christmas traditions are important in my family. Being half English and half Polish-Lithuanian, we have two separate celebrations.
Funders, financiers why don't you support childcare? Make it a budget line in your productions and please please let's not be ageist.
My kids both had Catholic junior school education, which I'm really glad for - it taught them how to be compassionate, how to be kind.
Every year the British public are so generous. It is really moving living in Britain. Fundraising is something we do tremendously well.
My daughters have become little judges. If I do produce a baked item, they tut at the soggy bottom and advise me to try harder next time.
I'm completely recipe-bound. Everything has to be prepped and laid out in separate bowls with a Do Not Disturb sign on the door. I've no flair.
I love performing in front of a live audience and just stepping out in front of ruddy Royal Albert Hall is just something, I can't describe it.
As someone who is a dedicated fan of the NHS, I'm extremely worried, I think its a very precious thing that needs to be nurtured, looked after.