Boyz magazine in 2003. - article thanks to Isa

My first kiss - “I must have been about 12, and it was in a field outside a campsite in Bournemouth. He was from Greece, on holiday with his family. He was handsome and so charming, but when I kissed him it didn’t feel right”.

My first celebrity crush  - “It was Batman, and I remember when he got covered in cement, I was in a terrible state. My Mum was like: ‘What’s the matter with you, you’re all pale’. I don’t know what it was that I liked about him, but I thought he was really sexy. When I was little I played Batman and Robin with the little boy who lived down the road who had a Go-Kart. I was Robin, and I fancied him too”.

My first job  - “I think I was about 11 and it was in a production called Iron Albert in the West End. I went straight into showbiz. John Schlesinger directed the musical and I played Queen Victoria’s oldest child, Victoria. It flopped after three months, but I had a good time. It was incredibly exciting”.

My first record  - “I think it was Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and the same day I bought a Sparks single. I really, really wanted them-I was nuts about Sparks because I like Electronica”.

My first love  - “I was 18 and went out with this guy for about 2 weeks. I met him in a pub as soon as I saw him across the room, I fell for him. If he’d asked me to marry him I would’ve done just like that. And he was a baddie, he was living with somebody else and had a child with them”.

My first heartbreak  - “Him. That one. He just didn’t call…I was dreadful for a long-time after that, but I threw myself into my work and that’s when I started to see stuff happening”.

My first drunken shame  - “I went to a party with nine boys and they plied with a mixture of Gin & Vodka. I was quite young, but I know nothing happened. We were all upstairs in the bedroom, but I did stay conscious but only just. No nothing happened, but I’m sure I was kissed. Quite innocently”.

My first drunken shame - “I tried-what were they called?-it was a mixture of opium and hash. Were they called Thai Sticks or something? And I tried poppers and I tried blues, which are uppers. With the mixture of hash and opium, that made me feel sick, I thought I was having a heart attack. The blues I love, but poppers made me feel a bit iffy, because I’ve always been worried about my heart”.

My first porno movie  - “I can remember seeing a pornographic magazine and I can still remember the feeling. I’m not gay at all, but I found it very sexy. I do a lot of touring so you can imagine on the buses, the band have always got them, but to tell the truth, I’ve actually found quite a lot of pornographic movies quite funny”.

My first inkling: I was famous  - “I never have felt that. I’ve always felt when people have asked for my autograph, they’d got it wrong: ‘Do you really want it?’”

My first celebrity tantrum  - “I don’t think I’ve actually had one. I’ve given sharp words when someone hasn’t done something they probably should have done, which would’ve been about how genuinely upset I felt. I’m not a tantrum thrower, I’m a bit too reserved for that. I have really good working relationships with people, all very honest”.

My first time  - “What, f***ing? I think I was 16. It was a boyfriend, who was older than I was. I trusted that it would be OK, and it was, he gave a good time. I was glad it was that one”.