with Craig Revel-Horwood
Judge, TVNZ's
Dancing with the Stars
1. 9-5pm you will find me:
At the gym 8.30-10am then rehearsals for my musicals. I direct and choreograph until 6pm.
2. After 6pm you will find me:
Interviewing, TV filming or out for networking dinners for future projects
3. Why I like living in …
London is fast and furious and totally cosmopolitan and a great base for world domination!
4. I can’t do without:
My computer or iPhone – oh, and holidays
5. Celebrate:
People who love and embrace life
6. My Favourite Things:
Champagne fridge at my home in London holds 400 bottles – yum!
7. Last Movie/CD/Book:
Confessions of a Shopaholic – I relate to that, Best of Bette Midler and All Balls and Glitter – My Life by Craig Revel-Horwood
8. Next Holiday:
Greece
9. Guilty Pleasure:
Bangers and mash and hot chips
10. Best Advice:
Everything in moderation
11. Woman you admire most:
Bette Midler
12. Your Mentor:
Bob Fosse
13. Best Health Tip:
Eat less fat and exercise at least three times a week
14. Favourite Saying:
Darling!
15. Best Life Balance Tip:
Everything in moderation
16. Worst Moment:
Discovering my first grey hair, last month
17. What’s Next:
Directing Spend, Spend, Spend the musical, also The Hot Mikado, Series 7 Strictly Come Dancing, playing the wicked queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – “Mirror, mirror on the wall …”
On the Spot
With Comedien Andrew Lumsden
AKA Radar
1. 9-5 You will find me:
Procrastinating with reckless abandon, convinced that what I am doing is VERY important for achieving the long term goal of eventually getting things done.
2. After 5 you will find me:
Cooking a large and overly elaborate meal in order to sustain the energy required to complete all the things I didn't do before 5pm.
3. Why I like living in…
Sin. Weddings seem so vain and self congratulatory.
4. I can't do without:
Oxygen
5. Celebrate:
Failure.
6. Under-Rated:
Standing naked in the rain.
7. My Favourite Things:
Are related to my guilty pleasure (see Q10)
8. Last Movie/CD/Book:
Books actually, a large pile of them all about New Zealand history, which I dip into occasionally in order to convince myself I'm working. Currently I'm just looking at the pictures.
9. Next Holiday:
Will be work related and somewhere in New Zealand. That way it'll be fun and linked to my new show - so it'll be tax deductible.
10. Guilty Pleasure:
The Internet’s ability to continue to enthral, yet repel me, with its depths of human endeavour. The things I have witnessed…
11. Best Advice:
Was given to me by the Head of my boarding school - ‘If your friend smells, he may not know it. As a friend you have to tell him’. I think he was speaking metaphorically.
12. Woman you admire most:
My mother, who raised three children while running a dairy farm while my father was away on business.
13. Your Mentor:
Would always say, ‘I think you could have done better’. They'd, invariably, be right.
14. Best Health Tip:
Old age is not all it's cracked up to be so have that second helping and wash it down with another drink.
15. Favourite Saying:
You make your own luck!
16. Best Life Balance Tip:
You only live once.
17. Worst Moment:
Generally happens not long after reassuring myself with my Best Life Balance Tip.
18. What's Next:
After re-reading 1 to 17 to make sure I have been appropriately wise, I shall procrastinate by continuing to dip in and out of the pile of New Zealand history books in the belief they will implant their wisdom into my brain by osmosis and provide fodder for my new live comedy show, Eating the Dog, which is about my favourite moments in New Zealand's grand history.
On the Spot
with Radio Personality Willy DeWitt
1. 9-5 You will find me:
Finishing off my radio show, sleeping, exercising… and drinking by 5pm.
2. After 5 you will find me:
Still drinking...
3. Why I like living in…:
Have moved from a house to an apartment. Oh the joy! I don't miss my lawnmower, edge trimmer, or hedge clippers at all.
4. I can’t do without:
Indian food and my daughter Miriana. If she was Indian it would be a perfect world.
5. Celebrate:
Tottenham’s revival under Harry Redknapp.
6. Under-Rated:
Chicken Biriyani
7. My Favourite Things:
My tattoos
8. Last Movie/CD/Book:
Daddy was a German Spy by Brian Edwards.
9. Next Holiday:
Whangapoua on the Coromandel Coast.
10. Guilty Pleasure:
Jason Gunn.
11. Best Advice:
Dad’s, which is: whatever you do in life be good at one thing.
12. Woman you admire most:
Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Heidi Klum, Elle Macpherson. (Do you see a pattern emerging?)
13. Your Mentor:
TV – David McPhail. Radio – Paul Holmes.
14. Best Health Tip:
Always eat the seeds of the apple. They contain amazing anti-cancerous properties.
15. Favourite Saying:
Flibbidy Jibs.
16. Best Life-Balance Tip:
One glass of water to every two glasses of wine.
17. Worst Moment:
Forgetting to drink the water.
18. What’s Next:
It's a magazine. (What do I win?)
