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Child in a candy store?

Restlessness is as much a feature of her conversation as of her rubber-pencil body. In rapid, loud bursts her life story pours out, punctuated by sudden halts when she doesn't want to go somewhere - her family’s royal connections (her father, Charles, is one of the Prince of Wales’s closest friends) or her cocaine days.

Although now 35, she's still like a teenager - occasionally petulant, but mostly impulsive and eager to please. At any moment I expect her to start bunny-hopping round the room, as she did in the jungle during the 2002 series of I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! The reality TV show revived her image three years after she collapsed into rehab: “It was the first time anyone had ever voted for me,” she says, poignantly. She must be hoping to repeat that coup by appearing on Comic Relief Does Fame Academy this weekend.

“Shall I sing for you?” she offers, putting on a backing track and throwing herself on to the piano stool that bears the numberplate TARA1. Her fingers rippling over the keys, she performs a song (which must remain secret) that she's been preparing for the show. As suddenly as she starts, she stops - after missing a top note - and turns from the piano like a crestfallen child. “I don’t expect to last more than three or four rounds,” she says. “But how great is it to be a pop star even for a day? I’m so glad it’s for Comic Relief. Not being paid should mean I’m not slated.”