It was en eventuful weekend. First, there was the Jan Moir thing. It made me so cross. Yes, her piece was unnecessary, nasty and homophobic, but it didn’t stop there. People were so (rightly) angered by her insulting of the private life of Stephen Gately that they missed the even bigger slur: that on sex [...]

Jacinta hadn’t always been vegetarian. She hadn’t always been German either. With hindsight, picking an assumed name with a “J” at the start of it hadn’t been the wisest of moves for someone using an assumed accent that had no use for them.

Hallowe’en’s coming up. I’ve always liked Hallowe’en. In fact, the worst thing about it is hearing Samhain (the Gaelic word for feast of the eve of All Hallows) pronounced Sam Hain on every American show from here to beyond eternity. It’s not Sam Hain. Sam Hain is a nice man but he’s not all that  [...]

I’m on with London Comedy Improv tonight, and for the first time in months, I’m brimming with energy; I might even be funny. With just over two weeks to the NYC marathon, I’m now in that luxurious phase known as the “taper”. I’m hardly running at all! I’m getting some days off! When I do [...]

I’ve mentioned before that I’m not a prudish woman.  I don’t give a second thought to communal dressing rooms, beaches of varying degrees of undress, or  frank and heated discussions about those and other situations in which one can find oneself exposed. But I don’t like to indulge too much in that kind of chat: [...]