People told us Eurovision was like a poisoned chalice – to have been part of an amazing team that worked on changing the attitudes around that is really cool.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Strictly. I went into it thinking I would last two weeks!
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My body of work and maybe the fact that I got famous young and I am still here and never ended up in a jail cell.
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I feel like it’s always what I’m about to do.
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Still to come, I think.
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I was thrown out of a club by bouncers when I walked into somebody and told them that I was registered blind. They said: “Don’t give a fuck – you don’t belong in here.” As a straight white man, it gives you a taste of what other people have to contend with.
Hard-working, resilient, irritating.
A lot of awful gigs. You can’t become a successful comedian without dying on your arse more times than you can remember.
Loud and noisy.
My college years when I was 17 to 19, before the responsibilities of adulthood, just doing the things that I was good at and liked – computers, maths, further maths (I was a geek).
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