Jo Whiley

And the public are like, we want Zoe.

So to know that in your heart, that you have been the public, the popular...

choice for this job that people really really trusted you and they love you and they would be quite happy if you have been strictly host of course whoever does it will be great and we will love them but but you know you have people's hearts and so that i hope is a comfort to you oh i think there was a lot of people that had hearts and i think for all the comments you read every what there's always positive comments for every single person

Like week after week after week, this is as good as it gets.

Does it feel a bit of a relief that it's over because it is has been the most unnatural process I think you've gone through you and lots of other people and the pressure has been crazy.

I guess you then have to recalibrate, don't you?

Because in your head, there's one part of you that's thinking, okay, so this is what the next year is going to be like.

It could happen.

It could happen, but now it's not happening.

So I guess you dust yourself down and you have a little jiggle and then you think, right, okay, so what is my year going to be like?

And maybe that's quite freeing and quite exciting.

Having spent quite a lot of time at my parents because my mum had her operation and so I've had a couple of sleepovers at mum and dad's house which is such a weird thing.

I don't know if any other diggers have done this when you go and stay over in either your childhood bedroom or the place where your parents live now and there are just all these photographs, random photographs all over the place of yourself as a child and

You just tap into their world.

But television is so important in terms of comfort because as you get older, your world gets smaller.

There are less people, you know, friends die off.

You have less, the fact is, there are less people to come pop in and visit and you can't get out of the house so much.

So I've really noticed with mum and dad,

how quiz shows, afternoon quiz shows.

And David Dickinson, my dad is obsessed with David Dickinson.