Charlotte Church has completed her transition from precocious child to pop princess. Church accepts that she should be more careful about looking after her voice than she is, but not to the extent that she’s going to do anything about it. “I love my voice and if I lost it I would be devastated, but I just don’t want to live my life like that. I am thinking of giving up smoking for general health reasons, and it was really embarrassing last weekend when I had overdone it and couldn’t sing at all, which meant that I had to mime at a big outdoor festival. I felt really bad about that.”