You won’t BELIEVE what they tell me!

I describe orgies in intimate detail in my book. I spoke to my husband and my son about them and I said ‘This didn’t really happen, did it? I mean, men don’t really do this sort of thing do they?’ and they said ‘Oh no, no, no!’ ...So I knew that meant they jolly well do!

Princess Michael of Kent tells me how she researched the sex scenes

in her latest novel, Quicksilver. I am getting pretty ancient. My brain is working but my mind is better than my body. If I get too bad, I will seek out assisted dying. I would hate to have some crippling, debilitating condition, so I do believe in Dignitas. I am open about everything with my family.

Nicholas Parsons leaves me feeling tearful with his pragmatic words at Stephen Webster’s Gold

Struck book launch last week. Having more yoga than sex keeps me young... and for me that means yoga at least four times a week. Birds Of A Feather star

Lesley Joseph, 70, right, reveals to me her secret for such a youthful appearance. It’s not my business to have an opinion on Sam Smith’s Bond song because Goldfinger wasn’t perfect. Not many people know this, but there are two wrong notes in there. The more I listen back, the more I can hear them. I’ve been unhappy about the song for 50 years!

Dame Shirley Bassey confesses even she’s not perfect when I bump into her at the opening of Skate At Somerset House

with Fortnum & Mason. I chose to have a bottom double because some things can never be un-seen. Also, though the viewers would have got the back, poor Holly would have had a view of the front!

Phillip Schofield tells me at the ITV gala why he had a bottom double for his Text Santa advert – and why co-star Holly

Willoughby should be glad!