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Appearing on a Paris catwalk in a beard.
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When were you most embarrassed?Originally asked
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View all 122 →Throwing up all over the red velvet seats in the House of Lords on a school trip, aged nine.
I called Elizabeth McGovern Elizabeth Montgomery throughout a show. But, bless her, she didn’t say anything.
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.
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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An electric-yellow mohair rug.
An emergency landing in a snow storm in Philadelphia.
'Excuse me, madam, you have a thong hanging out of your handbag.'
Like I've been kidnapped of my senses.
When I broke my toe.
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