Bumping into my male boss at a nudist beach.

I did an interview years ago and, after it finished, I made some passing comment about sex getting better as you get older – and they used that as the headline. The day the paper came out, I was in a restaurant with the family when a woman on the table next to me leaned over and said, in a sultry voice, “I read your article this morning.”

I once threw up on the shoes of one of my vocal heroes, the Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan. He sent me home in a taxi with a towel.

Falling flat on my face in Billy Elliot on Boxing Day when I was 14. I fell smack bang at the end of my number. I was mortified.

My dad’s family, for fake drowning when I was 12 on holiday in France – it caused such embarrassment that we had to leave. All because I wanted to get the inflatable ring off my brother. It still haunts me. I guess acting was always going to be my future.

I didn’t email my grandfather enough before he passed away.

Avoidance coping.

If emergency train announcements were written up on the information screen. The times I ended up at the wrong destination could easily have been avoided.

You have to ride the wave and never wait for it to be calm, because it never will be.

That my work has given deaf children more confidence in themselves and a sense of ownership of who they are.