Penny Lancaster

I do love fish, and I thought it was healthy without understanding the high mercury levels that fish like tuna, swordfish and halibut can contain.

I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.

As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.