, the broadcaster explained how she would compare herself to the celebrities she was interviewing.Download the new Independent Premium app“I was a normal kid going to a state school in London and the next minute I was sat next to these tiny, tiny pop stars in a TV studio going, ‘I don’t look like that, I don’t fit in here’.”Cotton, who was 15 years old when she started working on GMTV, continued: “I was a teenager with puppy fat, like all teenagers have, and looked very regular and normal.
Each time you hear about a real person talking about an issue you share you grow. Each time a celebrity talks about that issue in the hope of marketing it, you wither a bit more.