Tracy Beaker writer Jacqueline Wilson refuses to write about sex

Dame Jacqueline Wilson refuses to write about sex.

The 76-year-old author has written more than one hundred books for children and is known for creating the 'Tracy Beaker' series - which has gone on to spawn several long-running TV series initially staring Dani Harmer - joked that as a writer for a young audience she "doesn't even know" what sex is and compared herself to a 'Blue Peter’ presenter.

She said: "I am a children’s writer: we are like Blue Peter presenters, we don’t even know what sex is!"

The award-winning writer - who back in 2020 came out as a lesbian and revealed that she had been living with long term partner Trish after divorcing her husband William back in 2004 - also explained that she has felt "so lucky" throughout the last 20 years despite worrying that it would be all "downhill" after a "so-so marriage,"

She told The Guardian newspaper: "Don’t write yourself off. On my 50th birthday I thought, I’ve been lucky enough to have achieved most of what I wanted and I have a so-so marriage, so it will be downhill all the way. But amazing things have happened since; things I’d never even dreamed about. But [I was happiest] a few years ago in Vermont, when I eloped with Trish to have a civil partnership ceremony. Love feels like realising that if they were drowning, you’d try to save them."

The former Children's Laureate - who is set to publish 'The Magic Faraway Tree: A New Adventure inspired by fellow literary legend Enid Blyton - was then asked who her celebrity crush was and named former 'Pointless' star Richard Osman.