My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room - press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.