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The prized possession you value above all others… My house in Camden, ‘I can’t resist Domino’s north London. It’s a Victorian two-up- two-down. I paid £149,000 for it 14 Pepperoni Passion pizzas. years ago when I was broke. I had to I get two at a time but I borrow from a loan shark to get the deposit, but it’s worth about £600,000 could eat ten!’ now. It represents security. The unqualified regret you wish you The poem that touches your soul… could amend… I wish I’d kept study- My Country is an iconic poem about ing music. I played the French horn Australia by Dorothea McKellar. I and trumpet at school in , read it and I can smell the eucalyptus Australia, but I let it go when I left at trees in the Outback. 15. I bought a new trumpet a while The misapprehension about yourself ago and plan to start playing again. you wish you could erase… That I’m The way you would spend your fantasy nasty. I’m a generous and loving person, 24 hours, with no travel restrictions... but I’m deadly serious about my work. A big breakfast in a dirty old diner in The event that altered the course of New York, followed by a walk through your life and character... When I got the Bois de Vincennes in Paris, then a swim phone call in 1982 telling me I had a and surf on Tamarama Beach in part in in . Sydney. I’d have lunch at Icebergs Ital- The crime you would commit knowing ian restaurant on Bondi beach with lots you could get away with it… I’m not of LPR – Laurent-Perrier Rosé cham- sure exactly what I’d do but I know it pagne – then I’d sleep it off in the sun- would be a crime of passion. shine on Primrose Hill – I love the view The song that means most to you… of London. I’d start the evening with a The Greatest Love Of All by Whitney cocktail at the CN Tower in Toronto, Houston. I always sang it at auditions. then watch a West End show. After a The happiest moment you will cherish dinner with celebrity friends – Nancy forever… When I first got a compli- Dell’Olio is always good for a party cated tap dance move right in 1993. I – I’d go clubbing till dawn at Heaven! thought I was rubbish but I suddenly The temptation you wish you could did this sequence and I was euphoric. resist… Pepperoni Passion pizzas The saddest time that shook your from Domino’s. I get two at a DEFINITE world… Breaking up with my partner time, but I could eat ten. Lloyd. We were together for 12 years, The book that holds an everlasting but it ended in November 2005 and I resonance… The Thorn Birds by the was heartbroken. Australian author Colleen McCul- The unfulfilled ambition that contin- lough. I read it when I was 17 and it ues to haunt you… I’d love to be a was the first book I actually enjoyed. ARTICLE famous singer with a diva’s voice. The priority activity if you were the We ask a celebrity a set of devilishly The philosophy that underpins your Invisible Man for a day… I’d sneak life… Be honest with yourself and only around theatre dressing rooms and lis- probing questions – and only accept do things for the right reason. ten to the bitching – it’s hilarious. The order of service at your funeral… The pet hate that makes your hackles THE definitive answer. This week: I’d insist on an audition process for who rise... People chewing with their gets to do the eulogy – and the audi- mouths open. Yuck! Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood ence would be given Strictly-style score The film you can watch time and time cards to produce once it’s done! There’d P

again… I’ve seen Strictly Ballroom The figure from history for whom you’d The unlikely interest that engages your be plenty of LPR afterwards and I want HOTO about 40 times and love it. It always most like to buy a pie and a pint… I’d curiosity… I only passed my driving test my ashes dropped out of a plane at G From top: Tap reminds me of when I was trying to love to meet Natalie Wood and find last year, and bought a 1973 Triumph 30,000ft above Australia so my dust IA RAPHS: dancing shoes, make a living as a drag queen. out what happened on that boat. [Wood Stag Mark II V8. I get a kick out of it – would settle across the country. Toronto’s CN N

Tower, Strictly The person who has influenced you drowned in 1981 on a boating trip with and for me to like cars is very unlikely! The way you want to be remembered… DE Ballroom, a Strictly most… American theatre director and her husband, actor Robert Wagner, and The treasured item you lost and wish As a fun-loving gentle giant who told RRY, ALA Come Dancing choreographer Susan Stroman. She had Christopher Walken.] you could have again… My innocence. I the truth. And with a loud Boooo!

score card, The M me choreograph Crazy For You in The piece of wisdom you would pass lost it at 17 by sleeping with an Aussie The Plug… Craig won BBC2’s Maes- Y, SCOP Thorn Birds, South Africa in 1994. It gave me pro- on to a child… Tell the truth. I got caught TV star in exchange for dance classes. tro At The Opera last night. If you Natalie Wood, a E Triumph Stag and fessional credibility that went beyond shoplifting a pencil when I was 11 and The unending quest that drives you missed it, catch up on BBC iPlayer, , ALLSTAR a French horn dancing and led to other work – so tried to hide it from my parents. When I on… I seek perfection in everything I www..co.uk/iplayer/ O years later, indirectly, it got me Strictly. confessed I felt so much better. do, but sadly I rarely find it. As told to Rob McGibbon NEXT WEEK PS... Let Rolf Harris show you how to After Ali G, Borat and Brüno, Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest comic paint The Queen, then enter our M creation The Dictator arrives in cinemas. stars in a Jubilee portrait competition Find out what really makes Her new production of Abigail’s Party at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre. Majesty laugh M And try your hand at our special Jubilee recipes, dreamt And Sir Tom Jones’ covers album Spirit In The Room is out Monday up by the nation’s favourite chefs

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