1. I was vegetarian for 8 years but slipped several years ago and now eat chicken and fish (and, er, red meat very occasionally)

2. I was in the Drama Society at Uni and was snogged, shot, crowned and a cleaner in different plays and films over the years

3. The only bone I've ever broken is the little finger of my left hand

4. I won a Blue Peter badge as a child and regret selling it on ebay for £40 a few years ago (I was skint)

5. I am a bit afraid of my chinese fortune sticks as they have an uncanny ability to predict the future (but I keep using them)

6. The first (and only) time I went white water rafting I nearly drowned. Lack of oxygen is the only logical explanation for the spaceman I saw bobbing around next to me while I was under water!

7. I met Rolf Harris when I was on work experience at BBC Pebble Mill as a teenager and have a personalised drawing of a Rolfaroo (that's if my mum hasn't thrown it out)

8. Michael Bolton once asked me to sing for him

9. I used to have a job compiling traffic information for the DJ to read out on a local radio station. I was also responsible for answering the phones to competition callers. The DJ would lie and say, "The computer has randomly selected the following winners" whereas, in reality, I'd choose the people whose voices I liked best. And that's how a blind man ended up winning a complete set of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

10. I used to have double jointed toes and could bend them back until they touched the top of my foot

11. I once lived in a shared house where a homeless guy slept in our silver-bubble-wrapped cellar.

12. I've lost track of the number of houses/flats I've lived in

13. When I was a child we lived in Germany, near what was the Nazi concentration camp Belsen. Someone told me that the birds never sung there and, on the two occasions, I visited it, they didn't.

14. I am allergic to cats

15. Despite writing about them I'm actually terrified of ghosts

16. I once met someone who had the same reoccuring nightmare as me - and it's a really unusual, abstract one

17. I'd rather go shopping for CDs, DVDs and books than shoes, clothes or bags

18. I once hitch-hiked from Newcastle to Edinburgh and one of the lifts was a transvestite lorry driver. He was still wearing the dangly earrings he'd worn to a party the night before.

19. When I was a student I had dreadlocks and a nose ring.

20. I was nearly expelled from school because I refused to tidy my study bedroom (my argument was that messiness was self-expression) and insisted on wearing a non-uniform cardigan

21. I am a red belt in kickboxing!

22. When I was about 10 I became obsessed with hypnosis, took lots of books out of the library and would try to hypnotise my friends

23. I am the most unsporty person ever. During a throwing class at school where we had to throw the ball 10 metres underarm to get a badge I threw the ball BEHIND ME. Also, when I competed in the backstroke during a swimming gala, instead of going in a straight line I swam from one corner of the pool to the other.

24. I LOVE chocolate but am not that keen on cake

25. I am left-handed.

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