Dancer

You know when you go into a room there's always somebody that thinks they're better than somebody else.

It's important to show your gratitude for where you are in your life and for those around you.

When you get to my age, 59, the thought of getting the Latin dress and the Latin shoes on is a bit worrying. Your heart and your mind is always willing, but sometimes your body just says What are you doing?!'

I love ballroom dance, my favorite style being the Argentine Tango.

I've been in an industry of glitz since I was a little girl. I'm always going to love to wear eveningwear and eyelashes.

As a child I was always busy, always throwing myself into something, whether it was the Brownies or a play at school.

I think I was always driven because I came from absolutely nothing. I was that piece of rubbish from a block of flats on a council estate.

My dad left when I was two and I didn't know too much about his family.

My hairdresser Alan, who I've known since I began competing, lives with us, along with his husband Nathan, so I have my own gay gaggle.

I am self-critical and always have been.

I definitely lack in self-esteem in my personal life.

I don't dwell, I'm not a dweller. I just like to keep moving forward, because life is short.

One of the things people learn with me is I don't need to pull someone else down to build myself up, and I will live and die by that rule.

Don't do what I did and think you need to have these procedures to make you look more attractive. Don't look at the implant and think it will make you beautiful and everyone will really love you.

I'm proud of winning the British Open in 1983 when I was very young.

A tradition I have on Christmas morning - my son has always been the one that cooks the breakfast and I am always the one in the evening attempting to cook the beautiful Christmas dinner. And during the day we just have a nice snore, a nice relax and watch a movie.

What I've learned is Twitter is only a bubble - take it with a pinch of salt.

If you use your time well and you have your health you are already a millionaire and everything else is secondary.

I didn't overly have friends in L.A. I would work and come home and watch television.

I love to work but just as important is the time that you spend with your family.