Izzy came as a surprise. I was working as a freelance presenter with Granada TV in 2000 when Mindy told me she was pregnant. We weren’t yet married and Izzy still takes great delight in reminding us that she was the daughter who started the whole family.
Fortunately, when it came to her birth I managed to reach the hospital without incident. It was a caesarean delivery but I stood behind a screen while Mindy did the work. All of a sudden a yellowish, screaming thing was held up and that was Izzy. I had tried to be involved as much as possible before that — Mindy and I went to the “huffy-puffy” antenatal meetings together but we still had no idea how a child
