“Some of my friends laugh at me and tell me I'm far too working-class a...” — Tess Daly Quote

“Some of my friends laugh at me and tell me I'm far too working-class about my childcare, but I refuse to have a nanny.”

“I love those moments - the homework, the school run, when I get to chat to other mums. That's real life.”

“I can't obsess, I can't become somebody who grows old disgracefully, I'm not one of those people that tries to pin back the hands of time.”

“I really wanted to be a mom. I didn't want my kids to be raised by a nanny, which would have been the case if I were working two movies in a year, you know? And I would have been hospitalized with fatigue.”

“When people say they don't want a nanny state, they are, in fact, in a conflicted state of mind. On the one hand, they want to do whatever they want and not be stopped. On the other hand, if something goes wrong, they want to be rescued.”

“We hear some people talk about the nanny state and, actually, we don't want to be telling people how to bring up their children, or how to be parents.”