What has been your worst date ever?

My worst date—and bearing in mind I’ve had so many—was many years ago, if memory serves me right, the conversation was terrible, and at the end of the night, he took the liberty of trying to kiss my lips and I slapped him! The double shocker, was that many months later I saw him in a restaurant, very embarrassed and very married with children; some people really don’t volunteer the most important info on a first date!

Has your perception of love changed?

If it has changed at all, I would think it is that you can greatly love, and still love someone but have the courage to walk away if it no longer nurtures your growth. When you’re younger, everything is so black and white, so ‘this is it’—a be all, end all. Now I think I care less about what I should expect to find in a person, I think more of what I can give.

Advice for singletons?

If you are single, most people would like to think that you’re unhappy, or incomplete in some way. That you must be looking and searching, or for want of a better word—desperate. It would be the loveliest thing to be a pair, but I really think those pockets of time that you spend with yourself are perfect for soul searching and enjoying your own company, building your dreams—and the romantic in me believes that you meet the right person when you’re the best version of yourself.