Every job I've inherited, like 'Strictly's It Takes Two' and the radio show with Zoe Ball or 'Big Brother' with Emma Willis, I'll always ring them first and say, 'Are you OK with me doing it?'

There's nothing better than getting announced you're doing a job, people slating you, then you do a job and having people go ‘he's actually all right.'"

I knew I had to be the gay stereotype that was on the front of the papers every day. And I did my job well. I played the game.

In 2013, I had to do 'The Wright Stuff' on about an hour's sleep. I was asked, 'What do you make of the situation in Mali?' and I said, 'Well, I've not seen the film but I know the dog dies in the end.' They were talking about the civil war, and the whole audience took an inward breath. I thought, 'Should I not have revealed the end of the film?'