I Am What I Am [antikvár]

Welcome, readers - to my home in Sully, Wales, and to my life in the spotlight. Watch out for my dogs tangling themselves at your feet: Harris, a boisterous black cocker spaniel; Charlie, a gorgeous red-haired Dogs Trust rescue spaniel; and the family's thug, Captain Jack, a rescued Jack Russell terrier from Cardiff Dogs Home. Try to avoid their frenzied doggy madness as you step into my front foyer, and consider yourselves very lucky -because, since there's so many of you, I haven't gently urged you into the foyer, switched off the lights, closed the outer door and left you alone to discover that a full-size black Dalek looms in the corner.1 The Dalek is one of a kind, made especially for me by the Doctor Who tech guys; I requested that the Torchwood logo be tattooed beneath his menacing eye stalk. My Torchwood Dalek is one of two treasured pieces of memorabilia displayed in pride of place at the front of my home because of their importance to my success in the entertainment business. The second piece is far less scary, but equally significant. Hanging on my interior front door — where a welcome wreath might normally be - is the SS American life preserver from Trevor Nunn's revival of Anything Goes, in which I played Billy Crocker. Anything Goes, as you may know, was the Cole Porter musical in which I made my West End debut with Elaine Paige in 1989. Anyone can make a grand entrance promenading along this hallway towards the main part of the house; even the dogs love to skid up and down on the blond oak-wood floor. To your left is a guest bathroom that I call my 'superhero room'. It's decorated with comic-book art: a 1 My sister, Carole, had to have a lie-down the first time she encountered' my Dalek - and she knew it was there. 11