- Is a supporter of Sunderland A.F.C.
- She was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to broadcasting and charity.
- She kept her professional surname Robertson, her first husband's surname, even after he died and she remarried.
- Mother of Mark Alexander Robertson (b. 1962).
- She worked as a medical secretary in hospitals in Sunderland after she left school.
- She started to write articles for magazines. Readers wrote to her with their problems, and she replied. She received a phone call from BBC Breakfast Time asking her to be their agony aunt [one who gives advice on relationships and other problems].
- She wrote several novels, plays and self-help books.
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