The 5-Minute Interview: Connie Huq, Presenter
'It's too easy to go about your life being insular'
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Your support makes all the difference.Konnie Huq, 31, is co-presenter of 'The Tube', the former TV show that is to feature on Channel 4's online radio station from 3 November at 6pm.
If I weren't talking to you right now I'd be...
Chasing my friend's child around the living room.
A phrase I use far too often is...
"Apparently", "actually" or "indeed".
I wish people would take more notice of...
The bigger picture. It's easy to go about your life being insular.
The most surprising thing that happened to me was...
I was driving down the motorway and rang my friend and they were in the car behind me.
A common misperception of me is...
That I am young. They don't deduce it from my personality because I'm highly intelligent!
I'm good at...
Capital cities, Scrabble, driving and bluffing.
I'm very bad at...
Questionnaires.
You know me as a presenter but in a truer life I'd have been an...
Architect. I like interiors as much as exteriors but "interior designer" just sounds naff as a job.
I am not a politician but...
My sister is. There's enough wealth in the world that no one should go without.
In a nutshell, my philosophy is:
Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery, today is a gift: the present.
Sara Newman
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