You won’t BELIEVE what they tell me!

When I stayed in Palermo I was really worried about the mafia. There was an undercurrent of danger there but funnily enough I liked it, it made me feel alive! Celebrity Chef Rick Stein tells me he feared for his life while filming in Italy… and enjoyed it!

I want to be manlier. I don’t want to mince and I don’t want to talk like this. I want to talk like Morgan Freeman. Alan Carr’s silly voice has made him millions – but he admits to me that he still hates it.

I never read my guest’s books. I just don’t have the time. If it’s a children’s book I might struggle through. Graham Norton – who pretends to have read his guest’s book on his show – confesses to me that he’s faking it!

As a surprise to celebrate the birthday of my dear friend Mark Francis Vandelli, I hired two glider planes which flew like bombers firing shots over Longleat. It was quite a spectacle! Thankfully Emma Weymouth, right - wife of Viscount Weymouth – was not talking about destroying the stately home in Wiltshire that she calls home, but about a fireworks display she had arranged.

I am old and ugly enough to know that not everyone that watches you on TV loves you. And people say they can’t stand my voice. It is a stupid job talking out loud to camera. Anne Robinson pulls no punches when telling me about her career as a journalist and TV star.

When it comes to food we are now aware it’s quality not quantity that counts. But we don’t yet think like that when we buy clothes. There’s so much junk clothing out there, it’s like a wearable version of the horsemeat scandal. Blur’s Chipping Norton cheesemaker Alex James reveals how factory farm food is similar to today’s fashion industry.