I changed my mind on airing my views. Sometimes silence is better.

Cancel culture: getting stuck on the discourse rather than looking at the system.

Six months ago, I decided to move house. I got a skip, cleared everything out and then thought: “Why am I doing this?” So I remained, and I’m glad I did.

I can’t remember when I read, or was told, that he considered it a good thing to spend a short time every day thinking about death, thus getting used to its inevitability and coming to understand that something inevitable is natural and can’t be too bad, but it was in my early teens, and it struck me as a sensible idea. Of course I didn’t set out to think about death in a regular way every day, but I did think about it quite often, and sure enough, it worked. Why coming to see death’s naturalness should have caused belief in an afterlife to melt away, I am unsure, but it did.

To Gorka Márquez, who was my Strictly partner, for not winning the glitterball in 2022.

Jealousy. It’s the thief of joy.

Good memories. When I’m gone, I want them to feel that they were always my No 1 priority.

Getting to the end and thinking that I haven’t laughed enough.

Losing my eyesight – I live for the view, and the sunset and the sunrise.

That you get out of life what you put in. When you grow up on a farm you literally reap what you sow.