Quotes from Miquita Oliver

Just the sound of the paper ripping relaxes me.

I get angry when people go, 'Oh, you're just rude to people.'

Fashion shows scare me, and I've always been a bit more of a scruffbag. I'm not really put together like that.

I just love second-hand clothes.

At 17 I was earning money I didn't know how to handle and before I knew it I owed thousands to the taxman.

I don't think I'll ever shop on the high street in the same way again. It just doesn't have the same excitement for me.

I went bankrupt and then I didn't tell anyone.

I like girls who look like they never brush their hair. That's the key to real style.

It sucks if you're having a fat day and you still have to go on TV.

My parents had a six floor warehouse on Curtain Road called Cordy House between 2004 and 2007 where we had some of the most banging and memorable London parties.

We grew up in west London, everyone was poor, and we bought our clothes from charity shops or from Portobello.

Me and most of my girlfriends have said that we would never have a boob job, but we all said that we might have a boob lift. That doesn't sound so surgical, does it?

That the word 'sustainable' can be a bit intimidating, but it's just about keeping an eye on your daily decisions.

It is so important to be active when you are young, and I think it would have helped me tenfold if, alongside 'Popworld,' school, T4, Radio One and all those other things I was doing, that I had played a bit of sport at the weekends with my friends.

It's weird being mixed race, people never talk about the white side, they always talk about the black side.

I remember one episode trying to be really gassed about The Darkness and thinking, 'This just feels really forced.'

It's quite interesting to hear the different ways boys and girls talk about sex, because they're not so different at all.

I cut off my curls and got hair extensions because I felt they made me look more acceptable - more white. I just wasn't very comfortable being a mixed-race woman.

In my group of friends it's not really a big deal that I'm on telly. They're all much more famous than me.

Do you know what, the reason I haven't worked loads and loads is because I got so lucky working on 'Popworld' and T4. They were such unique pieces of telly, so I got really spoiled.

I'm used to presenting programs about pop music, interviewing pop stars, and hosting awards.

I dropped my prompt cards in front of Josh Hartnett once and I've never recovered.

When I turned 30, six years ago, I decided to run the London Marathon and I did not even really train. I thought that it was not even that difficult. I completed it in 5hr 15min, I could have got closer to 4hr 30min if I had trained properly.

I did Justin Timberlake when I was 18 and I was so nervous I couldn't breathe properly. It was the first time I'd done an interview where I realized the scariest bit is the part before.