Getting elected as MP for the Rhondda in 2001 despite everyone saying I was too “exotic” or “flamboyant”, ie gay.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Haven’t done it yet.
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Becoming an actor at all, considering my background.
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That I turned a broken heart into a career. That I hit rock bottom and bounced back up a lot higher.
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View profile →I was 15 working in Boots on Barnet High Street and it was terrifying. At coffee break you had to know whose cup was whose, and taking the wrong cup was a crime. I’ve met bitches, but I tell you they started out in Boots in Barnet.
It is all there is.
Well, I’m always right.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
People who think they’re always right.
None. I love reading, and I read a good book and a bad book at the same time.
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