"I was born in 1942 in the middle of the Second World War, and have hazy memories of doodlebugs, or V-1s ... to which we were highly susceptible, as we lived in Woolwich, south-east London.  I remember the river used to stink of rotten eggs in hot weather."  

Television Legend Jan Leeming (BBC News, I'm A Celebrity, Real Marigold Hotel, Safari School, This Morning) reads her 2003 Autobiography 'Addicted to Love'.  IN THIS EPISODE: Jan reveals her first starring role as King Canute; her time at Convent school; her first crushes (Laurence Harvey in 'Romeo and Juliet' Universalcine 1954); her love of Shakespeare and inability at Latin; her arrival at the BBC - working in the Programme Correspondence Section; meeting Owen Leeming and her first marriage to John Staple.

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