Playing sport can get you places I grew up in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a small fishing village just outside of Charleston. Rantzen explains she’s in “favour of nudity” because if we all did it more often “everyone would accept body hair and lumps”. cant memories, from meeting Princess Diana to creating a national outrage with a mischievous short ?

I was born in Vienna in 1930, but after a few years things got a bit difficult, because we were Jews. He recently joined Leap, a San Francisco-based tech start-up which has just released a conversation app, set to transform the way people socialise online. Staying active helps you meet people I’ve skated for my whole life, but when my husband died back in 2009, I decided to start synchronised skating as a way to meet people. She was awarded a DBE in 2015 for her services to children and older people, through her pioneering work as founder of Childline and The Silver Line.Dame Esther Rantzen has compiled the life lessons she’s learnt since being diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer in a new book. You are never too old to get fit So much of fitness is in the mind; people get older and are told they can’t do things, so they decide they can’t. Los Angeles-based skydivers Pat and Alicia both hold multiple skydiving world records and between them have made almost 10,000 jumps.

She has recently written her autobiography, which details her earlier life as an actress and dancer – and her first novel, In the Fast Lane, is shortlisted for the People’s Book Prize. Multi-award-winning broadcaster, founder of Childline and The Silver Line, campaigner, mother, grandmother and joyous trailblazer of our times, Dame Esther Rantzen dazzles in the glory of getting older and ever bolder. I started when I was 13 or 14 and it slowly became more structured, culminating in me starting Childline in 1986. He is also responsible for selling the underlying rights to hundreds of films, including Indecent Proposal, Chocolat and The Wolf of Wall Street. ects with candour and humour on the life lessons she's learned, revealing the hints, hacks and personal philosophies that have been her secrets to surviving almost everything.I’ve had all sorts of luck; luck to have parents who had dreams for me, but didn’t set punishingly high standards.

On my wedding morning, I said, ‘Desmond, we’ve only known each other ten years, I’m only 37 and I’m only 8 months pregnant, we’re rushing this. Over a career spanning five decades, journalist, presenter and campaigner Dame Esther Rantzen has appeared in more than 2,000 television programmes. THE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE SHOULD BE CELEBRATED I’ve lived in Notting Hill for a handful of years and my son took me along to the Carnival this year.

Other important lessons she’s learned over the years include prioritising spending time with your loved ones, health is the only thing that truly matters, and that naps are one of the “happy discoveries of growing older”. She is also a reality TV favourite with appearances on Strictly Come Dancing, First Dates, and I’m a Celebrity.