When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.

My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from.

I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I'd say no. Eventually, I got 'Godspell.' It was gently building.

When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.

I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.