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I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

I was a stage-struck kid.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

The complaint with me being on stage was always that I was slightly too naturalistic and not projecting enough. I've got quite a soft voice, so that didn't help.

I never felt I left the stage.

I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.