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Getting the job on Strictly at the age of 56.
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John Prescott
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
Kyoto, when Tony Blair gave me the opportunity to start the first legislative framework for climate change.
Tim Peake
British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
Doing the spacewalk to fix a solar panel at the furthest edge of the ISS. You have no idea if you are going to get a chance to do a spacewalk when you go into space. I was fortunate. There’s a real juxtaposition between floating, completely serene and calm, looking down at Earth and the universe, and being aware that you are in this hostile environment.
Ice-T
American rapper and actor
The transition from streetlife to the legitimate world.
Sandy Powell
British costume designer
To be getting paid for doing something I love.
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I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.
People close to me throwing me under a bus for a crust.
In my dreams: I’ll feel as if I am falling towards a white light and then suddenly I wake up.
We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.
When I found out that I was having my baby. They told me I was having a little girl and I named it Elizabeth. Then, when the baby was born it was my beautiful boy, Mark.
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