Falling off the stage and on to the pianist during the opening number in the Mother Goose pantomime at the Citizens theatre in Glasgow.
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Sending a text meant for my wife to Dara O'Briain by mistake, revealing myself to be a control freak.
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View all 122 →When my trousers split on stage in Burn the Floor in Australia. I had always been warned to wear my flesh underwear and I did not that day.
When I was losing my sight, I couldn’t see where I was going, and I went into an undertaker’s thinking it was a barber’s. I asked the undertaker whether he had many waiting.
An earthquake in Peru forced me and a young man into the street, where he had to introduce me to his family at three in the morning.
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I'd edit out all the wrong people I surrounded myself with socially and professionally whom I thought I had to tolerate.
The concept of eternity.
When my bowels move freely and without complications.
As a well-balanced and functioning thin man.
To my 17-year-old daughter Isabella, whom I described in an interview last year as "keen on maths".
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