Yvette Fielding

How do you relax after the live events, because you've got lots of pressure. It must be difficult to get your head in the right place in between those. Well, because of our team that we've got that we work with on Most Haunted: Cath and Stuart and Kieran, we're all really good mates, so we try to go out to lunch together, and have a bit of a giggle, and we've always got our DVD players with us, so we'll watch a movie, or something light-hearted. We keep each other company as well, so we go to each other's hotel rooms and have a bit of a giggle and have a laugh. After each live show we'll all go back to mine and Karl's room and we'll all have cakes and wine. Has your opinion of the paranormal changed while you've been doing the show? Of course it has: when I first started I didn't know anything about it. It was just an idea that Karl and I came up with, and that was it. Now, all of a sudden, it's taken over our lives, the way we live. I can't stop thinking about it. I can't stop thinking about new ways we can do things, new experiments, what are we missing, what are we doing wrong, how can we make it right, and yes, it has, it's certainly changed my opinion of the paranormal. And it's not a fad, it's not something that's 'in' at the moment in television, this is here to stay, because it's unexplained, and I don't know if we'll ever get round to explaining exactly what it is. How does the live show differ from the series for you? It's nerve-racking. I'm absolutely terrified and racked with nerves. I want to be sick, and have terrible tummy pains just before we go on air because I'm so worried. The only thing you can rely on is David, and hopefully any spirits that are there that want to talk to us. If that doesn't happen, you've not got a show. So you can wander round this fantastic location, and you know you've got an audience back at the studio, and Paul Ross is doing his stuff, but if nothing happens people are going to be very disappointed. And I know there have been some lives where hardly anything has happened at all, but you know, you can't fake it, you can't make things up just so you can say something's happened. And that's what makes me terrified, more so than the ghosts. I just pray to everybody, 'Please, please make something happen', before we go on. If anybody saw me filming outside a property, they'd see me pacing up and down, praying! How is it meeting all the fans at those live events? It's brilliant. It's really nice, because you're kept away from all of that when you do the series. You don't really get a chance to see any of the fans. And a lot of TV shows don't get the chance to meet their fans, they might meet the odd fan in the street, but for us, to have a live audience, and for us to meet the fans... and also it's good because they give us some ideas as well, they'll say 'have you heard about this?', or show us photographs, or tell us about haunted locations that we've not heard of before. There was one fan that asked us, 'Have you ever though about putting blindfolds on the people sat round the Ouija board so that they can't see the letters?' And so we did that. We always rely heavily on the fans for their input.