Dame Esther Rantzen loves surprises and so her family and her old That’s Life team are keeping plans for celebrations to mark her 80th birthday on Monday a closely guarded secret.

But she knows exactly what she will wish for when she blows out her candles, declaring: “My greatest wish is to dance at my grandchildrens’ weddings.

As they’re seven, five and two-and-a-half, it’s a bit of a big wish to have. But it would be great. “My mum lived until she was 94 and her quality of life was really good right up to the end.

So I’m hoping I’ve inherited at least some of her genes. “Hitting a milestone like 80, you think, ‘Heaven knows I haven’t got unlimited time, and only Heaven knows quite how much longer I’ve got’.

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