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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.
Anton du Beke
Interior
Financial
Long
Furniture
About
Baker
Adviser
Years
Salesman
Very
Worked
Decorator
Painter
Designer
I've become a produce snob. I like to eat food that's in season.
Anton du Beke
Food
Become
Eat
Like
Snob
Produce
Season
I'm going for Britain's Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I'm never on the list.
Anton du Beke
Best
Man
Dressed
Never
List
Going
Strangely
Award
Britain
Bruce Forsyth is my hero, and the thought that I'd be in a TV show with him was incredible.
Anton du Beke
Hero
Thought
Incredible
TV
TV Show
Bruce
Him
Show
'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.
Anton du Beke
People
Opportunity
Sinking
Few
Final
Strictly
Bit
Only
Winning
Putt
Like
Got
Goal
Scoring
Cup
Get
Few People
Famous
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.
Anton du Beke
Time
Me
Joy
Somebody
Year
Enjoy
Every
Strictly
Meeting
Spending
Spending Time
New
Always
Becoming
Been
Friends
Process
Them
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.
Anton du Beke
Me
Cooking
People
Three
Become
Think
Everyone
Minutes
Marvellous
Like
Sophisticated
Know
How
Still
Egg
Cookery
Who
Boil
Shows
I don't profess to be Luciano Pavarotti, but I can hold a tune.
Anton du Beke
Hold
Tune
Profess
I'd like to do a kind of 'Sunday Night At The Palladium'-style variety show on the BBC.
Anton du Beke
Sunday
Sunday Night
Kind
Variety
Like
Show
Night
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.
Anton du Beke
Family
Me
Relatives
Parents
Living
Other
Our
Abroad
Had
Because
Continuously
Extended
Extended Family
Bond
Sibling
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.
Anton du Beke
Met
Once
About
Absolute
Know
Until
She
Got
Judy
Scream
Anything
Found
Her
Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It's always going to be classic, and you'll never get bored listening.
Anton du Beke
Great
You
People
Listening
Incredible
Frank
Frank Sinatra
Bored
Favourite
Classic
Voice
Davis
Never
Had
He
Sinatra
Singer
Always
Doing
His
Versatility
Impressions
Get
Going
Often
As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.
Anton du Beke
School
Aircraft
Components
Factory
Soon
Making
Left
Worked
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.
Anton du Beke
Father
Hungarian
End
Uprising
Moved
Spanish
Fifties
Mum
Here
Britain
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.
Anton du Beke
Money
Competition
Dancing
Has-Been
About
Winning
Trophies
Never
Like
Been
Lot
Golf
Really
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.
Anton du Beke
Love
You
Together
Learning
Dance
Partner
Intimate
Fabulous
Touching
Leading
How
Proximity
Person
Behave
Quite
Interaction
Tiring
Them
Skill
Your
Imagine
I have a magnificent chin and a long, odd-shaped face. As a result, I always look better in collars.
Anton du Beke
Better
Result
Face
Long
Collars
Magnificent
Look
Always
Chin
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.
Anton du Beke
Work
Day
Three
Big
Breakfast
Energy
Dancing
Top
Out
Eat
Gym
Week
Throughout
Weight
Lot
Up
Times
Often
Little
Work Out
Keep
I look better with a tan, but I've never gone the fake route. I don't need to - I have good foreign genes: half Spanish, half Hungarian.
Anton du Beke
Good
Better
Half
Gone
Hungarian
Never
Genes
Look
Fake
Foreign
Tan
Spanish
Route
Need
Having been part of this wonderful show ever since series one, I know all too well what it's like to perform to the nation on the famous 'Strictly Come Dancing' dancefloor.
Anton du Beke
Wonderful
Nation
Too
Strictly
Dancing
Having
Part
Perform
Since
Come
Like
Know
Well
Been
Famous
Show
Series
Ever
Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.
Antony Tudor
Myself
Me
Sometimes
Sections
Feel
Ballets
Were
Done
Them
Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.
Benjamin Millepied
Good
Food
Great
Crazy
You
Vegetables
Nowadays
Mushrooms
Wild
Market
Find
Kinds
Some
About
More
French
Make
Because
Fish
Salad
Than
Heavy
Cook
Farmers
Actually
'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
Benjamin Millepied
Work
Strength
Training
Difficult
Dancer
Something
Takes
Arm
Most
Most Difficult Thing
Qualities
Female
Ballet
Ballet Dancer
Lot
Articulation
Lake
Swan
Really
Requires
Agility
Specific
Thing
Portray
Difficult Thing
Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.
Benjamin Millepied
Beautiful
Time
You
Emotions
Space
Directing
Lighting
Deal
Making
Very
Close
Choreography
Images
Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.
Bruno Tonioli
Buy
Yourself
Big
Before
Cheap
Comfortable
Makes
Pillow
Huge
Huge Difference
Difference
Flight
I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.
Bruno Tonioli
Chill
Year
White
Every
Trees
Bit
Out
Beaches
Perfect
Could
Since
Read
Unwind
Been
Yoga
Afford
Chill Out
Place
Turquoise
Sea
Sucker
Palm
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