STACEY DOOLEY

Sometimes, it's healthy to take a step back.

When critics talk about Three, they talk about 'Don't Tell the Bride' and 'Snog Marry Avoid?,' but we're also making important documentaries. We take hard-hitting issues and make them accessible.

I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs issues.

Traditional news feels quite sanitised, quite statisticky. We're bombarded with images, but often, you don't see the human stories, or if you do, it's only for 60 seconds, max.

I'm delighted to be involved with 'Glow Up.' The make-up artists are so impressive and talented.

I'd been to Mosul and back and forth to Iraq and Latin America, and it was all quite harrowing... and I felt like I wanted a month or two of total escapism.

I love my job, but it's intense, and it's serious, and it's straight, and it can be really harrowing.

Making a documentary about my hometown was always going to be the most difficult topic I had ever covered! No question.

It's daunting doing something you haven't done before - you feel silly; you feel like a bit of an idiot.

Most evenings I'll light a few candles, get snuggled on the sofa, and read a magazine.

As a journalist, I think it's OK to feel - I think there's space for it. It's how you react to those feelings that's important.

I try to be semi-healthy, but I've got into a really bad routine of never food shopping. My fridge is always bare!

When I first arrived in Cambodia, I found it very buzzy and very happening. It seemed like quite a cool place, and everyone, tourists and locals, seemed to be in good spirits!

You have to keep time aside for life, which I haven't done enough over the past couple years.

I was born in Luton, I grew up in Luton, and all my family and friends are still there. Luton is home for me.

I can nod off anywhere. Once, when I was little, I even slept through a car crash.

The thing about my dancing is, I actually think I'm magnificent.

I've earned my stripes; I don't need to prove myself to anyone.

It's hard being homeless at any age, but at 16 years old? I can't even imagine. When you're a homeless teen, how do you build a future or have any sort of life?

I love making documentaries. But I do like other factual entertainment as well, and I like doing the lighter stuff.

I love revisiting, actually. I went back to the Philippines. I've done three films in the Philippines.

I like eating everything in sight.

The few pounds we spend for an item of clothing isn't the true cost - the real cost is the millions of gallons of clean water that was used to grow the fabric, or the millions of gallons of fresh water that was polluted with toxic chemicals to dye the clothes.

It's daunting; it's daunting doing something that you are not brilliant at in front of millions of people. But you can't sit back and say no to opportunity. You have to throw yourself in.

I knew that extremism in Luton was a really important issue to try and cover, even though it could be very awkward for me at times!