Caring, patient, considerate, innumerate.
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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Driven, authentic, resilient.
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Insular, creative and mechanically minded.
Fiercely loyal, funny, easy-going. I’m sure my daughter and stepdaughters wouldn’t agree with the last bit, but I think I am.
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View profile →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.
As someone who cared boldly about people, stood firmly for what he believed in and lifted others when they needed help.
When my UK citizenship was approved. It’s taken me eight years and lots and lots of money. I was at home in South Africa when I received the news and my mum said, “I am so happy for you because this is your glitterball.”
Absolutely nothing. It’s a privilege.
I almost pulled out of my first solo tour because of impostor syndrome.
My father because I was 12 when he passed and I blamed him for everything in my parents’ marriage. Now I realise he did the best he could and was just figuring life out like everybody else.
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