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Genuinely – and my wife, Lee, knows this – dancing with Kevin Clifton on Strictly.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Driving my convertible over the Bay Bridge when I was 18, listening to Thinking of You by Sister Sledge.
Anywhere, during the 2 to 24 hours after a successful joke.
Simon Le Bon
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I was very happy to be alive when I surfaced after my yacht, Drum, capsized in the Fastnet Race in 1985. I was in an air pocket for 40 minutes, and had to take off my long johns to be able to surface.
Harry Redknapp
English football player and manager
When I met [my wife] Sandra. I was coming up 17. We met at the Two Puddings, a dance hall in Stratford.
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