TOTP: Do you look good on the dancefloor?
Karen: [shocked] Oh God! Erm...if everyone else around me has been drinking, yes.

TOTP: Are you the kind of person who would have set moves for certain songs? Like acting out the lyrics and stuff?
Karen: Are you talking about going out?

TOTP: Yeah! Unless you've got a dancefloor at home...
Karen: [laughs] No, I don't have set dances. I'm one of these people, if I go out I love to dance to cheesy '70s dance music. Like 'Disco Inferno' and stuff like that. So no, I don't have set moves.

TOTP: Have you got a sexy back?
Karen: A sexy back?

TOTP: As in the Justin Timberlake song, I'm not getting fresh...
Karen: Oh! Well, I don't know, I'd have to ask someone else that one.

TOTP: Is there anyone there you can check with?
Karen: No there isn't. I don't know, I don't know. I'm not going to say yes, that would be too arrogant.

TOTP: [outraged] I could live with you being arrogant, you're a pop star!
Karen: Yes I do! I have a very sexy back.

TOTP: Good! Consider this media training. The answer to that question is always 'YES'...
Karen: [fired up] YES! YES I DO!

TOTP: Good girl. Under what circumstances would you tell someone 'I don't feel like dancin'?
Karen: I suppose if it's a song I don't like. I'm not into heavy house or anything too extreme. So I suppose only if I went somewhere where it was real heavy, heavy dance music. I do like dancing to a lot of R'n'B stuff. If we're talking rock as in headbanging rock...I once tried headbanging to a Nickelback track and put my neck out, so I try to avoid that one.

TOTP: [helpless with laughter] That's quite wussy, isn't it? If you've knacked your neck to Nickelback? I mean Slipknot, yeah, but NICKELBACK? Was it one of their big ballads?
Karen: [slightly huffy] No, no, no. I really like Nickelback. It was one of the songs off the album...you remember when they had 'How You Remind Me'? It was one of the songs from that album.

TOTP: Which of the following describes you best, promiscuous, a maneater, or like a bird?
Karen: Um, probably a maneater. I'm certainly not promiscuous, and I'm pretty ruthless with guys in that I don't really take much of their rubbish. I've got a really clear identity of what I'm looking for and if it doesn't really fit in then...goodbye.

TOTP: Wow...you're basically describing someone who goes through quite a lot of men here. Is that you?
Karen: Well I don't know about going through quite a lot, I mean I go out with guys but I kind of filter them through quite quickly.

TOTP: You have a rigorous audition process, is what you're saying...
Karen: I tell you what, it's hilarious, because...take right now. I'm seeing this guy, I've been out with him three or four times...and I just can't be done with it. If I don't call him, he calls me all the time, really keen. The second I start calling him, he backs off and runs away like I'm asking him to marry me.

TOTP: Sister, we FEEL your PAIN. Boys are RUBBISH...
Karen: Well exactly. And I can't be done with it, so I'm going to tell him that unless he sorts it out, he's going to have to go.

TOTP: Quite right too. You can't waste your time with that nonsense, you being needy, him being needy, you wanna be out there having FUN...
Karen: Well that's it. And I think especially now I'm 24, I'm not interested in some kind of teenage relationship, do you know what I mean? I'm not interested in settling down and getting married, but like you said, I just want to meet someone and have a laugh with them, y'know?

TOTP: Some people are addicted to drama, aren't they?
Karen: That's true, that's very, very true.

TOTP: And on that note...have you ever called someone when you were drunk and regretted it when sober, like in that Evanescence song?
Karen: I don't know about calling them, I certainly go through my outbox going 'Oh my God! What have I done?'

TOTP: These would be the kind of texts that you can't really tell me about, yes?
Karen: Uh, yeah, probably...

TOTP: OK! Moving right along! Do your hips ever lie?
Karen: [really confused] My hips?

TOTP: You're aware of the Shakira song 'Hips Don't Lie', surely?
Karen: I don't know the lyrics...

TOTP: That's just the title! The title's mad enough - 'Hips Don't Lie'. What's your feeling on someone claiming their hips don't lie?
Karen: That's interesting. My feeling? Cool idea for a song. Well done Shakira! Have MY hips ever lied? Is that what you're asking me?

TOTP: YES!
Karen: No, I don't think they have.

TOTP: You've got fairly honest hips?
Karen: Yeah.

TOTP: So you didn't know if you have a sexy back but you DO know that your hips are honest?
Karen: Yes. Well, you don't look at your back, do you?

TOTP: People with mirrors do.
Karen: Well I suppose so. Hang on, I'm going to ask... [in background] Mark, do I have a sexy back? [long pause] There you go.

TOTP: What did he say?
Karen: He said 'yeah'.

TOTP: Well done! Which is your favourite London bridge?
Karen: Umm, that's the one by...you know the Tower of London-y one? Is that Tower Bridge? That's the one.

TOTP: If you had a rudebox, what would you keep in it?
Karen: God, probably stuff we couldn't say on air!

TOTP: Well, we're not on air, exactly. I was thinking along the lines of swear words...
Karen: Oh I was thinking of filthy sexual toys. [thinks] I tell you what I would keep in a rudebox, y-fronts. Why do men have y-fronts? They're disgusting. I don't ever wanna see another pair of y-fronts in my life. They've got to go in. Speedos also have to go in. With girls...girls with big pants is just horrible. Yeah, apple-catching pants, they've got to go.

TOTP: Aren't big pants used to try and keep flabby bits from flapping about?
Karen: Well the thing is, I understand that, but y'know, buy a corset. Corsets are so much sexier and they do exactly the same thing. So, big pants, y-fronts, speedos. With regards to words and stuff. I do enjoy a good swear when the time is appropriate so I'd be a hypocrite if I said swear words. But I hate sarcasm. You know when men can be really really sarcastic and they give you that patronising 'wahey love' rubbish?

TOTP: I'm aware of such a thing...
Karen: And here's another one. Guys when they walk past and they just kind of tap your bum or something and feel you up. I think that's it. It's always nice when you get attention from guys, it's lovely. But I'm quite old-fashioned in that I really like it when guys are gentlemanly. And they treat you with respect, as opposed to that object thing. I can't stand that.

TOTP: I think we've sorted a lot of things out here. Thank you Karen, it has been most enlightening!