Love Your Weekend
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When you need the lightest of fluffy interviews, gentler than a dab of cotton wool on a ballerina's cheek, that old softie Alan Titchmarsh can be relied upon.
'I don't want to dig up anything from the past,' he assured the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, as he returned with a new series of Love Your Weekend (ITV).
'You've had difficulties,' he added, tactfully omitting to list them. 'Could any of your mistakes have been avoided?'
With searing honesty and a fearless determination to confront her own failings, the Duchess agreed she was 'probably too enthusiastic'.
When you need the lightest of fluffy interviews, gentler than a dab of cotton wool, that old softie Alan Titchmarsh (pictured right on Love Your Garden) can be relied upon
She added: 'I'm stratospherically sensitive and I hurt desperately. I take everything personally. I am still a puppy, really. I think everyone's my friend.'
Love Your Weekend is no place for difficult questions. I'd want to know whether her ex ever sweated — like a cheese under a sunlamp, I imagine — but Alan merely remarked that Fergie's family had suffered 'extraordinary pressure'.
'I married a wonderful man and would definitely do that again,' she replied, adding bullishly that her wedding day was the happiest of her life. Afterwards, she called this inquisition 'gruelling'.
She was there to plug her new novel, Her Heart For A Compass, a Mills & Boon romance imagining the adventures of her ancestor Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott, second daughter of the Duchess of Buccleuch.
'I don't want to dig up anything from the past,' Titchmarsh assured the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, pictured, as he returned with a new series of Love Your Weekend
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