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Getting the job on Strictly at the age of 56.
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What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
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John Waters
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That I live a life with no contact with arseholes.
Ed Harris
American actor and director
Other than being a decent father, Pollock.
Kathy Lette
Australian-British author
Raising two children. If you can get your kids to adulthood and they’re not voting Tory, doing drugs or collecting Nazi memorabilia, then you deserve a medal.
Alison Steadman
British actress
Earning a living as an actor for 40 years.
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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.
We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.
In my dreams: I’ll feel as if I am falling towards a white light and then suddenly I wake up.
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