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If I\u2019m at home, I\u2019ll cook. My father Colin lives with me. When I moved him in, I had his place built at the end of the garden. I will often cook him something and then do something different for the kids. I always do different types of salad with meat. I\u2019m trying to stay off bread and pasta because they make me sluggish.<\/p>\n
Dad has been living with us for eight and a half years. He is 80 and has survived prostate cancer, lung cancer, skin cancer. He\u2019s going through chemo at the moment so he is not very well at all. I spend a lot of time checking he is all right, bringing back all of his plates and cups as he only has a kitchenette. I\u2019ll hang out with him. They say multi-generational living helps people to live longer. What is wonderful is the kids would never have spent so much time with their granddad.<\/p>\n
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I might see friends in bands or go to the theatre. From EastEnders I\u2019m still in touch with Lucy Benjamin and Letitia Dean. I saw Natalie Cassidy for the first time in ages on Lorraine recently. I\u2019m very close with Laurie Brett because we were friends at college. If I\u2019m staying home with my kids, we watch television together, something such as Saturday Night Live, the UK version. We are also a bit obsessed with Amandaland<\/a>. I\u2019m trying to not drink wine at the moment. I love a glass of red but for me it\u2019s always the cleaner the better. It would be tequila and soda, because it\u2019s the cleanest alcohol and apparently it\u2019s the only alcohol that isn\u2019t a depressant.<\/p>\n 10pm<\/p>\n I\u2019m in bed. I have been known to go to bed before 9pm sometimes! I\u2019ll read. I recently listened to Kathy Burke\u2019s book A Mind Of My Own, just because I wanted to listen to her voice. I also listen to a lot of podcasts \u2013 like Kate Thornton\u2019s White Wine Question Time, Gabby Logan\u2019s The Mid-point, Gaby Roslin\u2019s Reasons to be Joyful. I absolutely love Parenting Hell with Josh Widdicombe and Rob Beckett. Then I\u2019m gone. I can sleep pretty much anywhere.<\/p>\n Tamzin, 55, shot to fame playing Mel Owen in the BBC\u2019s EastEnders, a role she played from 1998 to 2002, returning in 2018 to 2019. She has also starred in New Tricks, Red Cap and Inside No.9. She lives in north London with her father Colin, 80, and children Flo, 18, and Marnie Ellis, 13, from her marriage to Tom Ellis, the Miranda star.<\/p>\n