Kevin Whately

With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.

I feel very at home in woodlands and could easily live there. I should have been one of Robin Hood's men.

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.