[2] Forbes presented the cooking slot on Going Live!, a position she won after bombarding the production office with ideas for 'makes'.
[6] Forbes was the face of a long-running television advert campaign for Head & Shoulders shampoo in the mid-to-late 1990s.
[8] On 13 December 2009, she announced that she would no longer be presenting her Sunday show on BBC Radio 2, but she continued to co-present Going Out With Alan Carr on Saturday evenings until April 2010.
Forbes lives with her banker husband Graham Clempson (married September 1987) and has two children, born in 1996 and 1999.
When she took a professional break to have her two children, Forbes and her journalist sister Sarah Standing started a shop in Belgravia, London.