“I adore 'The Apprentice' but I always feel I shouldn't support reality...” — Rebecca Front Quote

I adore 'The Apprentice' but I always feel I shouldn't support reality shows when there's so much drama that ought to be being made. I feel particularly guilty enjoying 'Young Apprentice' because you're sneering at adolescents.

As a mum I'm very vulnerable to anything where children are upset or having a rotten time of it. There are news stories I have to switch off because I think, 'I can't do anything about this and it's just too painful to watch.'

I developed health anxiety - hypochondria.

The Thick of It' is not 'Spitting Image,' mocking recognisable establishment figures of the day. The writers don't so much react to real events as predict them.

As an adult, I've always found the stereotype that Jews are liberal a curious one; my parents' circle was predominantly conservative, not just on Israel but on most political issues. Most of all, they were intensely (and this is a word I remember repeating in my own angry adolescent dialogues with myself) tribal.

I never had a moment of realization about my blackness - I just was. Blackness was a central thread of my experience as a child and as an adolescent, as it is now that I'm an adult.

People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?

I mean my mother always wanted us to be individuals. She always instilled that into our brains which was incredibly painful for an adolescent to deal with.