Every year, me and my friends have a fake Christmas day about a week before Christmas. It’s pretty much exactly like  Wham’s Last Christmas video. Last year, I was in charge of entertainment and took this opportunity to pioneer an exciting new game, called Share A Shocking Revelation. One by one we went round the table and admitted something shocking (“I hate Disney”; “I’ve been to 11 Boyzone concerts”; “I have a fear of walking over three drains in a row”) and we all felt much better for getting it out in the open. So, Internet Following, shall we play? I’ll start – with 10 revelations:

1. I hate cartoons.

 According to my mum, as a child I refused to watch cartoons “because they are not real”. This has continued into adulthood where I still believe there is nothing worse than the bit in Mary Poppins when it becomes a cartoon. Why couldn’t they have got a load of real animals and made it look like they were singing?

2. I don’t think Ross and Rachel should have ended up together in Friends.

I love Friends, but the last episode was pretty rubbish. Made all the worse by the fact that at this point in the series Ross had become a caricature of himself and him and Rachel hadn’t bothered dating for at least six seasons. So when they suddenly got together at the end of the last episode it just didn’t feel real. Like cartoons.

3. I think Diana Vickers is the best thing to have come out of the X Factor.

Yes, better than Leona. I know, I know, she can’t sing as well but I love her quirky pop and even the claw. Watch, for example, this amazing video where she acts out the whole of her song with the claw, including being stabbed by an arrow just before each chorus.

Does it matter that I only understand three words in the song? No.

4. I think Build Me Up Buttercup is the worst song of all time.

Yes, worse even than Chumbawumba’s “Tubthumping”. There’s something about “Build Me Up Buttercup” that sums up every rubbish night out I had at university spent in a club I didn’t really want to be in, dancing to rubbish music with groups of people alternating between inappropriately snogging each other and crying. Those introductory bars are enough to make me shudder.

5. I spent 26 years of my life believing that Wolves were not real.

When during an important work meeting I announced that wolves weren’t real, but were in fact mythical beasts, I genuinely believed it.  

6. If it had been an Andy Murray & Andy Roddick Wimbledon final, I would have supported Roddick.

Shocking, I know and completely unpatriotic. But it’s very much my rule in sport that everyone should win at least once and Federer was a bit selfish last year when he beat Roddick when he’d already won five times before. So I felt it was Roddick’s year. Plus Roddick has really nice eyes.

7. I think ice-cream is too cold.

I also think generally it’s a waste of time. Bring me a bowl of custard instead any day.

8. I often secretly watch Price Drop TV.

I find these programmes sickly addictive and am getting increasingly persuaded to nearly buy things.  Like these amazing vacuum-suction storage bags I saw on the other night. They look amazing! Really good value too.

9. I once went to a Boyzone concert (just to support the friend who’s been 11 times) and got so drunk I was sick on the tube on the way home.

In my defence, the tickets were free and we had a free box at the O2. There is nothing to excuse the vomiting on the tube or the fact that I know all the actions to “A Different Beat” (a song that incomprehensibly rhymes “Africa” with “Niagara”).

10. I find Derren Brown attractive  

Maybe everyone does and that confusing TV show he did where he predicted the lottery results was actually full of subliminal message around his attractiveness?  Maybe.

There we go Internet Following. Now please share some of yours. So that I feel less humiliated.