I’m terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions; the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I’m paranoid that I’ll be taken advantage of as I sleep.

I don’t have an iPod! It’s never appealed to me, really.

I’m fully aware that ‘Doctor Who’ will always, always be part of my life, and that’s not something I would run away from in the slightest. I wear it with pride, definitely.

I went to a very academic school that actually – when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

I know it’s really square but I’m one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I’m outside.

I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can’t stick to any of them.

I’m not very glamorous.

I was very much into science when I was young – I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.

I couldn’t sustain myself if I skimped on food – I work 16-hour days, I need the energy, I can’t afford to be stingy on what I eat.

I’m one of these people that if I have a nice holiday – like I have had in Turkey repeatedly – I go back a lot.