A comedian or the guy who drives the little truck around airports that takes old ladies to their gate.
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A drummer in a famous band or an astronaut.
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A teacher. Teachers can change lives.
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A ballet dancer. I danced from age two to 19. Giving up was not a choice; I had complications in an ankle operation.
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An actor – that’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. I went to stage school when I was 13.
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The Radio 1 breakfast show was an embarrassing moment that lasted for nine months.
A sense of what’s right, a few quid and some nice paintings.
Fairly decent bloke.
This was said about me in a Radio 1 focus group: “I don’t pay my licence fee to hear scummy northerners.”
Nothing. I survived a cancer scare at 60, so I am just overjoyed to be here.
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