We used to sing around the piano as a family twice a week and there was a picture on it of my mother’s cousin, a commander in the Australian navy. Elizabeth hit the headlines at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival when photos of her dancing with fellow carnival goers in the pouring rain went viral.

I listened, nodded and went to work for someone else who immediately gave me a job as a director and then as a producer and a presenter, which I did for 25 years. Luck finding a husband who was my soulmate and then yet more luck having three children who are funny and loving and caring. There’s a terrific definition of it, which definitely applied to me after I lost my husband Desmond.Playing sport can get you places I grew up in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a small fishing village just outside of Charleston.

She is also a reality TV favourite with appearances on Strictly Come Dancing, First Dates and I'm a Celebrity.Ben is the co-founder of the Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober, a gallery and sculpture park in northern Mallorca.