Her favourite hobby is sleeping, at which she has become something of an authority, and now writes a weekly column about it in 'Meow' magazine.

Gloria will only eat food containing cream. Single, double or whipped, she is not fussy, but Cornish clotted is her absolute favourite.

She likes food even more if it is smothered in chocolate, hence her passion for chocolate éclairs. In fact 'fatty' Gloria, as we call her here, insisted that she would only appear on the site if accompanied by a chocolate éclair.