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Anton du Beke

Profession : Dancer

Birth : July 20, 1966

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

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I hated most music in the 1970s, especially disco, but Bowie was edgier.

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Being a competitive dancer is an expensive business - you have to buy the £2,000 or so tail suit and the shoes, and then get yourself around the world to the competitions. And there is not a lot of money to be made in competing.

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Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.

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We didn't know anything about Judy Murray until we met her, but once we got to know her, we found she was an absolute scream.

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My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties.

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Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

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Because we had no other relatives living in the U.K., me, my parents and my siblings continuously journeyed abroad to bond with our extended family.

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Life's supposed to be an adventure, a surprise!

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Bruce Forsyth is my hero, and the thought that I'd be in a TV show with him was incredible.

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My goal was to become the best dancer in the world and, because I started late, I always had this feeling I was playing catch-up, so I've been a bit of a maniac most of my life, sort of striving.

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I work out in the gym three times a week on top of my dancing, so I have to eat a lot to keep my weight and energy up: a big breakfast, and little and often throughout the day.

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I'm going for Britain's Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I'm never on the list.

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Mum was always hard-working. She came over from Spain and bought her own council house.

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There is not a lot of money in competition dancing. There never has been; it's all about winning the trophies, really. It's not like golf.

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I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

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I worked as an interior designer. I worked as a furniture salesman. I worked as a financial adviser. I worked as a painter and decorator - that wasn't for very long. I was a baker for about four-and-a-half years.

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As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.

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I do watch what I eat, but I don't make it myself. When I eat out, I just have to make sure the things I buy are good and healthy.

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I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.

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