Olivia greets me looking effortlessly sexy. Wearing skinny jeans, boots and a loose fitting cashmere sweater, it is not the outfit which wears her, but she who wears the outfit.

Only 26, this home grown North London lady has achieved a lot in a short period of time. Expelled from a convent, she eventually tamed her wild ways and graduated from Guildhall University with a degree in Design. Olivia now finds herself a far cry from the Account Manager position she found herself in when she embarked on her career.

Olivia is warm and witty, her sense of humour is endless and before I can even begin to ask her a question she says something that almost reduces me to tears, of laughter.

King’s Bench: Olivia, I can’t believe you were an Accounts Manager! How on earth have you ended up being where you are today?

Olivia Lee: I was sat in my office one day, staring out of the window watching this tramp and thinking to myself, I’d rather be him than be me right now. I had an Epiphany – so I went into TV production and worked as a marketing manager for a while, but I soon realised that I was working on the wrong side of the camera.

KB: (Laughing)..ok, not quite the answer I was expecting. What about the perks of your career, have you ever got any cool freebies?

OL: I get a lot of clothes with the job and that’s always a plus! I did once get a shuffle though, but it was before they had come out and no-one knew what they were, so it made it all the more exclusive.

KB: Have you ever used you name to get into a club?

OL: No! I use other people’s, far more useful. I often call myself Kylie, sometimes Davina works too.

KB: You choose to stay out of the limelight a lot, you have turned down a lot of opportunities to do press and really make your name known. Why is that?

OL: I want to live a normal life as much as I can, something which I guess sounds odd when you do the job I do.

KB: You work in a tough industry though, how far would you go to land a job?

OL: I would go so far as to give a half decent audition, maybe even learn my lines!

KB: One of your first roles was as Kelly Foxwell in the Basil Brush Show, was it as fun as you made it look or is kid’s TV really hard going?

OL: It was amazing fun! But it wasn’t easy, there were a lot of innuendo’s and cheekiness, you couldn’t push it too far, you had to keep a balance. In fact I landed that role on one of the rare occasions when I did preparation, and it paid off!!

KB: You just finished doing unanimous (Olivia presented the aftershow on E4), did you think it was going to be the next Big Brother?

OL: Not at all. I wanted to do Unanimous because there are few intelligent reality shows out there, but this was one of them. It wasn’t based on watching people lull around a house, doing day-to-day stuff – it was a tactical game, they had to try and come up with a strategy. It was a test of wills to see what people are willing to do for money.

KB: What is next for you?

OL: Hopefully a lot more of the same. I feel that there are not enough funny women out there and I would like to fly that flag.

KB: And you are doing it very well so far, but do you have any regrets?

OL: None. You learn something from every job and you have to be able to look back and laugh. However, there are a lot of films that I can’t bring myself to watch.

KB: Your job it to make other people laugh, but what makes you smile?

OL: Gas. And the word ‘phelch’, huge comedy value for me, and occasionally the word ‘salamander’.

KB: What’s the best advice you have ever been given?

OL: To be patient. And to always floss.

KB: What do you think of the whole Big Brother situation at the moment? Jade’s career look like it will soon in been tatters, but do you think she is really a racist?

OL: I don’t believe that she is a racist no. But she is a bully. She obviously didn’t think before she spoke and a lot of what she has said may have been taken out of context. She has undoubtedly learnt a valuable and very expensive lesson.

KB: As you career progresses, you will have the opportunity to work with bigger and better names – who would you most like to work with?

OL: It would be very cool to do something with Christopher Guest and Larry David.

Watch Olivia on ‘Balls of Steel’ starting on 9th February, Channel 4 at 11pm. Also look out for here in the forthcoming ‘Anually Retentive’ on BBC3 in March and in ‘Law of the Playground’ in the summer on Channel 4.