Tess Daly Quotes

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Tess Daly

Profession : Model

Birth : March 29, 1969

I've got a treadmill, where I've realized I can watch Netflix and run 5k at the same time.

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A lot of people always ask me about what life is like. Yes, it's glamorous, it's glitzy, but there is a lot more goes on than that glitz and glamour you see in a photograph or on a red carpet.

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Before I got into television, I was working in New York. I interviewed a few people there, wrote a few articles for a fashion magazine out there called Paper' - which I hugely admired.

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My kids are my priority. Everything else is just sugar on top!

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Confidence, to me, is just pushing yourself a little bit further than you think you can go, and you'll always surprise yourself.

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I worry about everyone - about old people, people who haven't been able to see their families, about the economy and our children's futures. The worries are endless.

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I'd worked in TV for a number of years before Strictly,' doing kids' telly and a couple of Saturday-night shows, but nothing on that scale.

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Honestly, I don't really do that much exercise.

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A microphone pack once fell down my knickers and nearly pulled my pants down.

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I do yoga and Pilates, but I'm not militant about it.

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I suddenly got magazine covers, TV commercials and advertising campaigns. Finally after two years I could show my mum and dad that modeling was lucrative.

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One minute you're invited to Puff Daddy's party, the next you're at a bash with Donald Trump, Kevin Costner and all these movie stars. Sometimes you had to pinch yourself and ask, what's a girl from the Peak District doing here?'

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I had no sympathy with my mum and dad.

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Being married to a fellow northerner helps - he's got to keep it real or his mum would soon slap him into place.

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Let's say I try to ignore the small stuff, like wet towels on the floor, the dishwasher full to the brim and not turned on. You know what men are like, they'll never rise to our standards of excellence. But when they try, that's enough!

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We try not to flaunt our family too much. I know it works for some people, but while our children are small I want them to grow up quietly and normally.

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As far as Vern and I go, we have had situations where people have tried to take photographs of me and cut Vernon out or vice versa in an attempt to create a scandal. But we just try and live our lives and ignore it.

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I've got a long spine, so I've got to work on my core.

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Sometimes I'll do five minutes of skipping at the start of the day - one minute on and one minute off, and it's great, it really wakes up the system.

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You can skip inside if the weather is bad, it's an all-weather exercise that really gets your circulation going, it wakes you up, and it keeps you trim.

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