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'Being on TV just feels natural to me'
Woman's Weekly
|August 12, 2025
I'm dyslexic, which people find weird because I've written five books.

One thing I can do is play with shapes in my head, create things in 3D and understand. I can design a garden from scratch, and somehow I just know how things will work.
When I have to ad-lib on TV, I take apart what I'm going to say in my head, then put it back together verbally. Other people say to me 'I couldn't do that', but it's something that feels very natural to me.
Being on TV feels natural, like I'm just having a chat with some people.
This story is from the August 12, 2025 edition of Woman's Weekly.
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