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The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗
During the technical rehearsal of Aspects of Love in 1989. They told me it would be discreetly lit because I was paranoid about being in just my pants. I walked on and every spotlight in the building followed me round the stage.
When I was doing a masterclass at a theatre and I had to leave the stage because I was about to shit my pants.
Appearing on a Paris catwalk in a beard.
Where do I begin?
When I worked out I was gay and decided to leave the church at 29.
Brave, naughty, diligent.
I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.
Getting elected as MP for the Rhondda in 2001 despite everyone saying I was too “exotic” or “flamboyant”, ie gay.
Losing the 1992 general election.
The Doctor in Doctor Who. I still do.
Jon Snow, Keir Starmer, Zack Polanski, Edmund Hillary, Rory Stewart, Clive Myrie
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