NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.

When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the acting profession. But that wasn't sexism, it was snobbery, which I knew and took very humbly.

To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.

I'd been a Bond girl and in Dracula films and 'Coronation Street,' but I was always hunting for work. After 'The New Avengers,' I never had to wait for work again.