A beautiful, sequined dress for a showbiz function. It was pushing £1,850.
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Holidays. For years, I would book a big house in Britain for a week for the entire family. There would be 14 of us. I don’t regret a penny.
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I bought my BMW in 2014 with cash, because I was bankrupt and had no credit. But I was in Kinky Boots, so I was finally making some money.
My hybrid car. Not glamorous, not fast, but indispensable.
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To my grandma Faye, because I didn’t realise, when I was growing up, what an icon she was. She fought at Cable Street, and worked her arse off to get the family out of the tenements. She had a lot of wisdom to impart.
Our family song – Three Is A Magic Number, which my husband played me on the way back from the maternity hospital.
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