In fact, I’ll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.

It was tremendous fun while it lasted, but I didn’t want to get into a rut, and I think there was the danger of this, had I continued.

I’m told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it because it feels nice.

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had...

When I read the script I thought it was so much fun, and it?s the best soap in the country

Really, in a way, I took over the male role.

Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.

There have been plenty of very bare hotels with couples humping next door. I don’t stay in very grand hotels.

I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.

In some 50 Avengers shows I got kissed only once, and then the script called for me to dump the man on his ear for getting fresh with me.

I have a Calvin Klein travel handbag with four compartments that fold up. You can keep your tickets, passport and documents all together.

No More Avengers! There’s nothing new to get out of it – I want to go forward, not backward.

I’m the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

I’m very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

I’ve travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you’re in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.