The Importance of Staying Alive

"I was on stage for 19 minutes. I couldn't escape," she says of her performance in a school play. "It was just absolutely mortifying and it was that awful thing of my mum and dad trying to keep me afterwards." She adds: 'Don't complain, because then no one has anything to say about you' The pair are currently filming the second series of This Is Life with Steve Coogan at London's Royal Court Theatre.