The singer and TV presenter talks about trouble with Refreshers age 16, watching box sets with her middle daughter, her full throttle week and expertise at cooking rice

Sundays growing up? My mum is Filipino so we were brought up Filipino Catholic. She was the church reader. My brother was an altar boy. My sister was in the choir. Dad would do the offering – and I was the church organist.

Favourite hymn? I’m a sucker for carols. You can pull out all the stops for O Come, All Ye Faithful or Hark the Herald Angels Sing. My father was a captain in the Royal Navy, so any hymns about the sea I would play loud – up until the day that I got fired.