Mariella's Hay fever turns cold

Sky Arts and Radio 4 presenter Mariella Frostrup was in glowing and, it had to be said, candid form at today's launch at London's Savile Club of Sky Arts' coverage of the forthcoming Guardian Hay Festival later this month. This year she will follow up last year's cosy chat with Gordon Brown by inviting Cherie Blair and former US president Jimmy Carter to her interview sofa. But Mariella is hoping for a slight improvement on the weather this year - last year's Hay festival was beset by freezing cold and rainy weather and poor Mariella suffered for reasons you might find difficult to believe. "I don't own many outfits that I could wear in front of the cameras so I had to borrow about 10 things from friends," she told Monkey. "And all the things I borrowed was for what I thought would be a warm mid-May so I had to pile on anything could - old jumpers, cardigans, the lot." The great Mariella, former squeeze of George Clooney, having to borrow clothes for TV? Who'd have thunk it?