The first act you introduced was Milli Vanilli, what do you remember about them?
"Of course I was very worried I wouldn’t be able to say Milli Vanilli, because if you get nervous those are the sort of words that you can’t get out. Afterwards came the whole scandal about Milli Vanilli miming, it wasn’t even their voices. I have to say that I was so awe-struck by where I was and what I was doing that I don’t think I took any notice of whether they were miming or not."

Wasn't Tom Jones on as well?

"I know! Not only was I doing TOTP but Tom Jones was on it! How much can a girl take? I was just so impressed by everything and everybody on that day. When you’ve done television, you’re quite used to cameras being fairly static and they move around but not an awful lot, not whizzing around. On TOTP they’re screaming around like Daleks!

The atmosphere, from my recollection of TOTP, was always electric. You had the fear of God put into you, because I knew I’d got an opening link of approximately 20 seconds. I’d got 10 seconds in between most acts and a wrap up of maybe 15 to 20 seconds and woe betide you if you spoke for either 8 seconds or 13 seconds either side of a 10 second link. It would have to be a catastrophe to actually stop the show, they always ran it as live, which was great because it kept you on your feet."

Were there any memorable mistakes?

"I do remember once in the heat of the moment introducing a band called KLF as KLM, which of course is a Dutch airline, but I wasn’t allowed to go back and change it! Great advert though for the airline."

Let’s talk about the strange breed of dance records that came whizzing into the charts at that point, what are your memories of that?
"Those sort of dance records didn’t fit in with the way TOTP had historically been, so it was a big change. TOTP has to reflect the music of the day, so there’s nothing you can do about it. But I think it was the beginning of a change for TOTP. I’m sort of glad that I did TOTP when I did, but then again I would say that wouldn’t I?"