How would you describe your style when you were young?

I think my style was a little unconventional to tell you the truth. I wore a sarong before David Beckham ever did. But I'd just wear what I wanted and never thought about it.

Was there anyone that influenced your style while you were growing up?

Like everyone else, my parents had a huge influence on me growing up. My parents were a little unconventional because my dad was a bit of a hippy - he'd dress like a hippy, but wasn't really a hippy as he was a computer programmer while my mum was a nurse. They were quite liberal and looked unconventional but they didn't live like hippies. My father comes from England and is white and my mother comes from Zimbabwe and is black. So I'm mixed race, and when I was born in the seventies it was probably something quite new to see them together. It probably went against the grain in Britain and I guess the same could be said about their dress sense!

Tell me about this blue shirt.

I don't wear this shirt often because it's too tight, but it's very important to me as it was my fathers and I think he bought it in New York.

Are you sentimental about clothes?

I am quite sentimental about one or two things. After my mother died I felt that I wanted to hold on to her things and I kept some of her clothes because you can't keep a lot of things.

Even though you live in Cardiff now, you spent your childhood in New York and Essex didn't you?

I went to boarding school which was very different. The school was very strict about its uniform so when I wasn't at school I tended to rebel and dress completely different. I'm not a rebel in the way I act; I don't usually react in a reactionary way. But if you look at old school photos of me, I look completely different. I had dreadlocks and a nose ring and I'd dress differently to everyone else.

When did your image change?

Everything started to change when I joined the BBC. It didn't happen overnight, but gradually things started to change, I had my dreads cut short which made me look like Tracey Chapman. But I believed that if I had dreads and wore dungarees that no one would take me serious. I'm not saying that it's right, but that's life. So after I started at the BBC I started to dress a little smarter and I'd wear a suit if I was presenting.

Which one is your favourite suit?

This blue suits looks good on screen. It's important to get a suit that fits properly. My body shape is a little different to normal because I've got quite small shoulders, but I've got a big African bum and the tops of my legs are wide and they get very narrow towards my ankles. I discovered that Paul Smith's suits fit me really well and I also like his clothes because they're formal but with a little twist, and I like that.

Where did you get this blue shirt from?

When I started working on Sport Wales I bought this blue shirt because I started wearing more casual clothes. I wasn't aware of it at the time, but everything I bought came from American shops. This blue shirt comes from Abercrombie and Fitch and I have a t-shirt from American Apparel. Most of my casual clothes now do tend to have an American laid back feel about them.

You live in Cardiff but work in London. How do you make sure that you've got the right clothes at the right location?

I live out of a suitcase when I'm in London and when I'm in Cardiff! I have a system of nine items I pack when I go to London. The first item are my shoes, then socks are number two, a belt is number three, pants four... my tie is number eight and if I'm wearing a shirt that needs cufflinks then the cufflinks are my ninth item!