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We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.
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Cell Block Tango from the musical Chicago.
Gary Barlow
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The cancan. It’s celebratory and it would demonstrate the ridiculousness of this life.
Emily Mortimer
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
Reggie Yates
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Jump Around by House Of Pain, and Pull Up To The Bumper by Grace Jones: stuff people could dance to.
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People close to me throwing me under a bus for a crust.
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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