The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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My daughters and granddaughters.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 June 2025 source ↗
Aside from the night that my wife said yes, creating Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, and employing thousands of dancers for the last 30 years.
The six Olympic gold medals, because at school I was never great at sport. When I look back on my career I think, how on Earth did that happen?
The coming out letter I wrote in Tales Of The City – it seems to be the thing that’s going to last after I’m gone.
Having a career that’s lasted 47 years, especially when I felt like an impostor for so many of them.
Loving, creative, demanding.
Being let go from Strictly.
Life is never fair.
Carlos Acosta, for his incredible achievement in dance.
A Biba dress when I really couldn’t afford it. It was every scrap of my money and I’ve never parted with it.
In school, I was 11, and we had to paint a picture of family life. My painting was held up to the class and I was told it looked like a spider with ink on its feet had walked across the page. It was done so viciously – humiliating.
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