I took a while to fall in love with Val d'Isere. It was November 1985 and, keen to delay getting a 'serious job' after university, I had signed up for a season as a chalet girl. What struck me first… — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
I became a chalet girl for one simple reason: I couldn't afford to go skiing. I had got the bug when I worked as an au pair in the Alps, before university. — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
I was a decent cook - competent enough to turn out the standard Eighties chalet fare: beef Wellington, banoffee pie, Delia's chocolate bread-and-butter pudding… — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
The challenge of election broadcasting is to stick to the story and line. — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12. — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
Stats are stats but if you want to be sure you're going to have, say, three children with no problems, you should start at… — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what you look like. If you can't do the job you will soon be found out. — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
I'm a good dressmaker. When I was a student I made all my own clothes, and earned good money making ball gowns and wedding… — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
Gradually, we fell in love with camper-vanning. It's a strange business to begin with - rather like driving a large, rather flimsy cardboard box.… — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
I was offered a screen test for a business show on Japanese TV. I did it for a laugh, really, and I got the… — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
It's not your job to be warm on the news; you can be empathetic, but you can't emote. That can be difficult sometimes -… — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
I didn't come from the sort of family where Daddy would provide - so I had to work. — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
First off, it's a bit of a tired old chestnut that if a woman is pretty than she can't be bright. God what are… — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
Newsrooms are still highly competitive, demanding environments. You have to be robust to hold your own amidst the alpha males and females. — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
It was a deliberate policy not to invite Hello!' into my home. I could have done that stuff and made a lot of money,… — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
There is a choice you can make. You can want to be a firework and are comfortable with fame. You love it and you… — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
