The TV personality talks about his neurotic rescue dog, salmon-cooking husband, daily phone calls to his mum and irrepressible ironing habit

Lie-in or early start? Definitely not a lie-in, because of my neurotic rescue dog Gigi. She was a feral creature living in a Serbian graveyard and demands to be taken out at about 7am, so there’s some negotiation between me and my husband as to who gets the job.

What’s for breakfast? I’ll eat blackberries and yoghurt and a £1 croissant from the local Co-op. But you have to get there early as the local cafés buy them up and then you see them in their windows for a fiver.