Gemma Whelan
English actress
Recovering from anorexia.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Getting the job on Strictly at the age of 56.
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That my son is kind and he loves David Bowie.
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Words like achievement make me want to puke.
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Quitting smoking.
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People close to me throwing me under a bus for a crust.
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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.
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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