The broadcaster, best known for presenting CBBC’s news shows, Newsround and Sportsround, lost his sister earlier this year.

Tributes have been flooding in from her family, as well as fellow singers.

He has two children, Blake and Blu, through a surrogate mother, but she is recognised on their birth certificate, and not him, he says.

The singer and daytime TV regular tells Lisa Salmon why she’s ‘terrified’ about her new solo tour – but life is too short to put things off.