Joanna Garcia

I kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it's not like I'm a hermit. But I just know what I do for a living and that there are certain sensitivities.

If you come up to me in the street, I am going to be delighted to meet you. I became a television star to entertain people, to spread goodness into the world.

I'm obsessed with leather jackets!

'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.

The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.