Sandi Toksvig

Owing to the fact that her father Claus Toksvig was covering the Apollo mission, at the moment when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon, an 11-year-old Sandi was in Houston's Mission Control, holding the hand of Mr Armstrong's secretary.

[joking about her origin in reference to Danish bacon]: I am Danish, but you can only tell when I'm naked. I have it written up the side of my body in blue.