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I am pretty proud of having got Aspects of Love back into the West End.
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Helen George
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To still be working.
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My marriage and my sobriety. The sobriety makes the marriage possible.
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The coming out letter I wrote in Tales Of The City – it seems to be the thing that’s going to last after I’m gone.
Joanne Froggatt
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Being a decent person.
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Watching Long Lost Family on telly.
During the technical rehearsal of Aspects of Love in 1989. They told me it would be discreetly lit because I was paranoid about being in just my pants. I walked on and every spotlight in the building followed me round the stage.
Handing out leaflets for a European coach trip wearing just lederhosen, in February and March in Surrey. It was freezing, and I got fired.
My dogs. They didn’t cost that much to buy, but I’ve been paying for them since. We’ve two Tibetan terriers, Danny and Wilbur.
My first summer working, in 1984. I’d come out of drama school, I’d landed a job that got me an Equity card doing Godspell in Aberystwyth – and it was just unmitigated joy.
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