"I was working in PR and marketing for a small chain of hotels in the North West producing brochures"

"We’d just done a gardening weekend. It went very well and we thought we needed to do more specialist themed weekends,…"

"I was driving to work one morning and I heard about a shooting at The Plaza in New York. I thought about how awful it…"

"Then I thought how interesting it would be for the people staying there. A bit scary, but they wouldn’t be able to le…"

"But I discussed it with the chairman of the firm and told him I thought we would get a lot of publicity, and he said …"

"I thought it was important for the guests to have emotional attachments to characters,” she says. “I didn’t want them…"

"I had so much interest from around the world, which proves that the murder mystery weekend idea was new. No-one else …"

"[About Madonna] I disagree. Nor do I agree with the association of Madonna's name with the title of her LP Like a Vir…"

"I could have had a career in cinema. It was difficult to reinvent myself as a singer. I have a weak voice. I can swin…"

"I do yoga and meditation. I'm a vegetarian and I've given up alcohol."