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English - Journalist Born: May 31, 1982

You'll never see me on anything like 'MasterChef.' I'm just not interested.

Me You Never See

If it's a healthy day, I'll head to the gym, then have a steak salad at the cafe next door.

Day Gym Door Cafe

I get up at 3:30 A. M. We're on air from 6 A. M., so if I'm in the studio, I'll have eggs at around 7 A. M. from the canteen - scrambled or poached, occasionally with a slice of brown toast.

Air Get Up Brown

Drinks-wise, I stick to water, sometimes a Diet Coke.

Water Sometimes Diet Stick

I am not with child - I am with pot belly.

I Am Child Belly Am

I just like to think of everyone as a happy family but in football that just doesn't exist.

Family Football Happy Think

I am not frugal - I'm quite a big spender - but not on credit.

I Am Credit Big Quite

I look at my bank account every day. I constantly think about what is going in and out, and I will always try to save money on something if I can.

Day Money Look Think

I see myself as a bit of a capitalist really - I like enterprise and making money.

Myself Money See Making Money

Since becoming a BBC breakfast presenter I have been paid four-figure sums for doing hour-long speeches for associations and at awards dinners. That has been an eye-opener. I am surprised by how much people are willing to pay TV celebrities to do that kind of stuff.

I Am People Breakfast Doing

Kids have some of the best ideas - bringing new eyes to old problems.

Best Eyes Problems Ideas

I meet a lot of people with my BBC Breakfast job who have great businesses.

People Great Breakfast Job

Business leaders regularly complain that young people don't leave school with the right skills. Encouraging young people to be entrepreneurs makes the connection between school and the world of work, teaching them about practical thinking, team-work, communication and financial literacy.

Work Communication Business People

My first attempt at a business was a jumble sale which I ran at the end of my next door neighbour's drive. I used to rummage through her garage, looking for anything that I thought people might buy. I'd then set up a table and try to sell what I could to the people walking by.

Business People Drive End

We concentrate too much on ethnic diversity and not enough on class. It's dead important to represent loads of different cultures. But what the BBC doesn't do enough of is thinking about getting people from more working-class backgrounds.

People Thinking Diversity Dead

There are a lot of women who do a similar job to me who are paid a hell of a lot more... who are a lot posher than me.

Women Me Job Hell

The most rewarding, insightful and challenging year of my life was my 'Year in Industry' working as a trainee engineer at Black & Decker, which involved studying part time at college.

Life Time My Life Black

There's a common problem: if a kid is not good at exams, they often think they are not skilled. Yet many of them do have the skills employers are looking for - but often we don't show them that, or teach them how to develop them, or celebrate them.

Good Celebrate Looking Think

If someone chooses a vocational route, why do they not get the same respect in society as someone who just does a pure academic route?

Respect Society Someone Pure

From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you.

Education Work Age You

Despite being a business journalist at the BBC for ten years, working behind the scenes on our high-profile news programmes, I was viewed by some in the organisation to be 'too common for telly.'

Business News Behind Being

I've had tweets questioning whether I really did go to university because surely I would have lost my accent if I did; a letter suggesting, very politely, that I get correction therapy; and an email saying I should get back to my council estate and leave the serious work to the clever folk.

Work Serious Saying Back

I, like many annoying pedants, will wince when someone says 'less' when they should have said 'fewer.' But my 'poor' sounds like poo-ah, not pore; and my 'grass' rhymes with mass, not farce. What's wrong with that?

Someone Poor Will Grass

It's inevitable that not everyone will like me, and that some will find me annoying. That's fine. All presenters deal with that. What's scary is the ignorance about what having a regional accent means, or indeed doesn't mean. It certainly doesn't equal ignorance.

Me Ignorance Will Find

I'm always on the go, which means my health has often been the thing that suffers.

Health Go Always Which

You don't have to be the most amazing writer, you don't have to get top marks in your English GCSE, you just have to be someone who can tell a good story, and tell it right, and tell it well.

Good You Amazing Someone

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