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I'm not a presenter - I'm a star.
I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.
Nobody likes a presenter melting in a self-indulgent puddle of tears.
Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.
I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.
As a TV presenter I've found it's important to always have great looking feet.
On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.
I'm only a freelance TV presenter and, in many ways, it's all just been a massive fluke.
When I first started, I tried to wear things I thought a 'Countdown' presenter should wear.
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
For a long time, I thought, 'I'm not a TV presenter,' but now I realise there's no typical route into this business.
I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.
People know more about my views than they do about most BBC presenters because I had a life before becoming a BBC presenter.
For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.
My mother, Jeanne, was a TV and radio presenter in Jamaica. Bob Marley used to appear on her shows all the time and so she knew him quite well.
It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.
They're all good-looking men - I can't think of a male presenter who isn't a good-looking bloke - but, you know, they're not judged by their suits and ties.
My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.
Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.
Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day never gets credit. It really kills me.
The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.
Yes I'm a TV presenter and a mum and a wife and all those things, but as much as I love a duvet day with my family, I also like rockclimbing and getting dressed up for a glamorous evening now and then.
The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a either black gay or a lesbian. Chalk and cheese, they reckon, works.
One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.
I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?'