| • | "What was your first vice? 'Smoking, when I was 17'", "What is your worst habit? 'Smoking'", TV Quick, Sep. 19-25, '98 | |
| • | "Beautiful, charming and talented, 27-year-old chain-smoking Victoria couldn't be more down-to-earth", "she says in her soft Irish lilt, laughing and lighting up yet again", Woman (UK), Sep. 21, '98 | |
| • | "She tucks into countless pieces of bread; a hummus starter and large plate of linguine and pesto sauce today in between chain smoking a packet of Silk Cut", Daily Mirror (UK), Nov. 24, '01 | |
| • | quit - "But the move back to Dublin and the fact that she has just given up smoking have prompted friends to ask her if she's pregnant", Daily Express (UK), Dec. 1, '01 | |
| • | "'G'is a fag,' she demands of her make-up artist, Ken. 'I don't smoke, right,' she warns, fixing me with huge, sea-green eyes and nodding conspiratorally in a way that seems to be urging a pact of silence on the subject", Sunday Express (S magazine) (UK), Apr. 14, '02 |