Growing up in Middlesbrough I was taught to be resilient and competitive. My teachers made us believe that just because kids were at private school up the road, it didn't mean they were better than us.

I remember early in my career people telling me I needed to change my accent, that I needed to sound more professional, more BBC perhaps, but I think if I wasn't from Middlesbrough I wouldn't have done as well as I have.

There are a lot of women who do a similar job to me who are paid a hell of a lot more... who are a lot posher than me.

I meet a lot of people with my BBC Breakfast job who have great businesses.