Joanna Page has been tweeting from her new Sky1 pet show. Look, lots of lovely animals!

Our Joanna does like to talk, as her appearance on Jonathan Ross's show proved beyond contention. Now she's launching a campaign to encourage people to talk more.

Knowing how important it is to make time for a chat, Joanna is encouraging us all to slow down , have a cup of tea, snuggle up on the sofa, and make time for our special calls.

Brits still spend a breathtaking amount of time talking to each other. However, the quality of those conversations is in jeopardy.

Increasingly we’re squeezing in our calls when we’re doing other things, rather than making time for a proper chat with people we care about, and this is damaging relationships and killing quality conversation. Calls made hurriedly in transit (or chit for short) are getting in the way of our chat. These are just some of the findings of a new social study carried out by BT as it paints the UK’s first ‘Talktrait of a Nation’.

As part of the study, people can go to www.talktraits.co.uk and take a quiz to find out whether they are a Happy Chatter, a Duty Dialler, an Evader or even an Unrung Hero.

Here she is in what's obviously her home and not a set, looking exactly the way she does whenever she's on the phone.

It's been a long time since the last Today's Joanna Page. What's she been up to? When she's next going to be on tele, I hear you ask?

Well, obviously I don't hear you ask, because that would be sure sign of insanity. Although…  

Anyway, you could ask her yourself since she's now on Twitter. But after doing panto over Christmas…

…she filmed an episode of Marple with Sir Donald Sinden. Haven't yet watched Marple so this one'll be a first. Apparently, she laughed a little too much on the last day of filming when the body turned up.

She's also been on a tribute show for Welsh actress Margaret John, is about to start filming a pet show for Sky 1 with TV vet Marc Jacobs, and has kissed some Dunhill shirt collars to raise money for prostate cancer research. And she's probably judging Nokia's X6 competition to find a new entertainment reporter at this very moment.

But spare a thought for her poor hubby, James Thornton, who ended up in hospital over Valentine's Day weekend after being hit by a car. He's on the mend now, thankfully, which means he'll likely end up doing yet another Ready, Steady, Cook with her – they've done two so far.

Everyone watch Gavin & Stacey over Christmas? Good, that's what I like to hear. As a reward, here's a picture of Joanna Page from FHM as well as a pic of her as Cinderella – she's been doing panto over Christmas, too, and giving advice to Pamela Anderson on the subject, too.

After the jump, her recent chat with Paul O'Grady on his chat show. Happy New Year to you all!

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Our Joanna's up to lots this month

1. She's on The Paul O'Grady Show on Friday
2. She's on the front cover of FHM
3. Series three of Gavin & Stacey starts on BBC1 on the 26th
4. She's getting ready to play Cinderella in panto in Woking again
5. She's just been named the sexiest woman in Wales by the Western Mail, despite living in London

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I'm sure you all tuned in to watch Joanna Page on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross last week. If you didn't, you missed a clip from the third series of Gavin & Stacey as well the information that it's going to be broadcast next month (no news about when it'll be making its way over to BBC America, I'm afraid). Bad luck.

Anyway, just for your delectation, here she is again, courtesy of YouTube (unfortunately, sans Gavin & Stacey clip. You'll have to go to the iPlayer for that: the interview starts at about 24 minutes in). It's worth watching, even if you're not a big Joanna Page fan, because

1. You get to see Jonathan Ross out-talked by a woman
2. You get to see the kind of speed the women of Swansea talk at if you've never seen it before (yes, lovely wife does talk that quickly)
3. If you stick around until the end, you get a really cracking joke from Jo that leaves Jonathan speechless. Nice

Next time, it'll be Adrenaline Junkie, where our Jo beats a bunch of blokes at powerboat racing and more. Cracking.

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Social workers aren't best loved right now, so a new campaign had been launched to point out they're actually quite useful people, really. Various big name stars, including Sadie Frost and Michelle Ryan, have been lending their voices to the campaign, as has our Joanna. Here, she gives Joyce a voice.

Poor Joanna. That's all I say.

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I'm on holiday in a lovely sunny land. It's probably still raining where you are. Here's a picture of Joanna Page on Barry beach, filming Gavin & Stacey a couple of weeks ago to brighten your life up for you. Unless it's actually sunny where you are, of course.

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Well, I've not finished listening to the 2007 radio adaptation of An Ideal Husband, in which she played Mabel, so today, you'll just have to content yourselves with pictures of our Joanna enjoying the summer weather in Cardiff. She's on the last week of filming series three of Gavin & Stacey.

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