I know netball is the number one female sport in Australia, but hockey also offers a lot.

My hockey comes first compared to everything else.

Unfortunately, there are not many people in the world who get to experience the Olympic Games.

Hockey should have some appeal. It's a good game in that is full of action, very quick, and it can be high-scoring.

We were brought up to think we were amazing. Maybe I was too confident, too full of myself. I found school difficult. I'd get followed home by 20 kids throwing stuff at me. The teachers didn't like me, either. We left Ireland for Manchester when I was 12, and I was happy to go.

Fashion is a real passion in my family. I never even realised it was something glamorous until much later. For me, it was my family's job.

As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk, a Matchbox truck. Perhaps a childhood attraction to shrunken but compellingly realistic facsimiles is commonplace, if only because children themselves are compellingly realistic facsimiles of the giants who rule their world.

I have always said, even before I ever did TV, that I have a very dramatic family.