My nan was a big influence. I realised that if I wanted to eat snacks – and food is my main driver – I needed to be in the kitchen with her when she was cooking. She made traditional dishes, and so on, but she was quite experimental.
I loved her chicken maryland, which is made with bananas, and instead of an apple to take to school, she gave me a . I admit, though, I used to like going to friends’ houses and having chicken nuggets and chips because we never had things like that at home. I’ll probably run out of ideas for at some point.
But I can’t think of a better thing for me than to be the queen of potatoes. Potatoes are hilarious, humble and delicious. I think it’s just the most fitting thing: potatoes are my spirit vegetable! In order of preference? , and .
I didn’t imagine my social media career would take off like it has. It was great, but then it became overwhelming. I was panicking and wondering if I’d ever be able to do another job.
About four years into it, I found it all a bit too much and took a couple of weeks off. But then I thought: this is so much fun and the worst that’s going to happen is I’ll just go on making online..
. I’m definitely a bit of an attention seeker. In high school it dimmed ever so slightly because everyone wants to be cool at that age, but I loved drama and acting.
I think one of my reports said: ‘She’s better at ad lib than actually learning’, which probably helps with presenting on live TV, so I’ll take that!.