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Anton du Beke

Profession : Dancer

Birth : July 20, 1966

You spend your life having lessons, practising and competing as an amateur, and working during the day. As you get to the top end of the amateur field, you try not to work anymore; you earn your living through dancing, maybe by doing a bit of teaching. It's an ongoing life's work.

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I'd like to do a kind of 'Sunday Night At The Palladium'-style variety show on the BBC.

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I enjoy watching talented cooks bringing together ingredients into a fabulous dish.

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As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.

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I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

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'Strictly' is a bit like scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup Final or sinking the final putt in the Ryder Cup - only a few people get the opportunity to do it, and they have got to be famous.

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You can't talk about yourself in the third party - that makes you a lunatic!

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When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on.

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I always enjoy the process, meeting somebody new and spending time with them and becoming friends with them. That has always been the joy of 'Strictly' for me, so I enjoy every year.

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With the media how it is these days, people expect to know everything. I don't talk about my girlfriend because essentially she doesn't want to be talked about.

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When you dance together, there's a fabulous interaction. It's quite intimate. You're touching your partner, leading them. Learning how to behave in that person's proximity is a skill. I love it. I can't imagine tiring of it.

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Because we had no money when I was growing up, when I started dancing, I wasn't allowed to be frivolous - my mum made me go to every lesson because she was paying for it.

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The thing about me is that I love variety. I like to try new things, and I don't want to be pinned back.

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I don't profess to be Luciano Pavarotti, but I can hold a tune.

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I just like to sit and admire my garden; it's so well kept by my gardener and my girlfriend.

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Too many multi-vitamins are packaged as one size fits all, but you should be more specific about what you need. When I was competing as a dancer, I took zinc for healthy skin and immune system.

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If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

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I like to get up and get out. Otherwise you end up kicking about, and it's easy to flick the telly on; then before you know it, it is 11 A.M. and you haven't done anything.

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The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it.

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I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.

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