My mother. She raised four children pretty much on her own. My father was around, but always out at work.
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Elvira, the lady that took care of me when my parents weren't able to be there. She dedicated her whole life to me and my brother and my sister. Now I take care of her.
My mum, for the way that she brought up her three children and managed to make her money work. She worked as a cleaner for all these families we went to church with. She would cycle there with my little sister on the back of her bike – we didn’t have a car. She had an amazing mind for planning and organising so that we got to do ballet, we went to Brownies.
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Dame Joan Collins. She insists on being happy whatever is going on and, despite being a Tory, is a very caring person.
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