The 5-Minute Interview: Vanessa Feltz, Television & radio presenter
'Falling in love has surprised me'
Vanessa Feltz, 44, is a radio presenter and columnist, and returns to television with "Real Lives" daily on ITV1 from 4 December.
If I was not talking to you right now I'd be...
Having my nails done. I'm in Golders Green at a manicurist, getting them painted scarlet.
A phrase used far too often is...
"At the end of the day".
I wish people would take more notice of...
The incorrect use of the apostrophe.
I'm good at....
Spelling. I have a big silver trophy to prove it. I was BBC Star Spelling Champion in 2005, and I slaughtered lots of other clever clogs to win.
But I'm very bad at...
Directions. I can't find places on a map. If I do get somewhere, I won't be able to get back. If I walk out of a door, I will turn the wrong way.
The most surprising thing that ever happened to me was...
Falling in love, recently, at the age of 44, with a wonderful man 10 years my junior.
I am not a politician but if I was...
I would do something about inheritance tax. It was intended to punish the very rich, and now it's affecting everyone with a semi-detached house.
You know me as a television personality, but in a truer life I'd have been a...
Landscape gardener.
The best age to be is...
16. Like the song in The Sound of Music.
In a nutshell, my philosophy is this:
I've purloined this from a great rabbi called Hillel: "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am for myself alone, what am I?"
Rachel Shields
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