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“I like to be in bed by nine and asleep by ten. I like to wake up early, go to the gym at 7am, that's my regime.”
“It's always been a dream of mine to have my own show.”
“I never try to look for love but sometimes it finds me.”
“I went to see 'The Greatest Dancer' when it was filmed in Birmingham. And they announced the show's judges' names and then Curtis' name. The crowd went wild.”
“I've got a tattoo, my mum's fine with that.”
“People are going to make their own minds up, and seeing how happy people are together and how much fun they're having, people are always going to think 'ooh are they in a relationship? They look so happy together.'”
“For me, exercise is a form of meditation and I find it very calming.”
“At the end of the day, I'm my own person.”
“I think for me I was in kindergarten, so I was very young and my teacher acknowledged that I was very dyslexic when it came to reading and writing and processing that information.”
“I like to be very, very regimented and very OCD in my routine.”
“The thing is, with doing our TV show 'Strictly,' and 'Stand Up For Cancer' and any shows I do for TV, it's always so positive.”
“If I post something on social media, like Instagram or Twitter, I never actually read the comments.”
“I do something to win it or I don't do it at all.”
“From the age of 12 when I decided to dance in high school, everyone was saying, 'Oh, you're a dancer,' and there was that kind of stigma about it.”
“There are dances you can do separately - your charleston, your jive.”
“I think that it is mad that everything always has to have a label - whether it be the clothes by designers, or whether you are in a relationship or not. Everybody always wants to have that label when it is not always necessary.”
“Dance is about portraying and telling a story and whether that be two males, two females, a group of guys, or a group of girls, it doesn't matter as long as the story is beautiful.”
“I just live my life - but the support from the gay community is always fantastic. It's really great because they are always the best people to always be around.”
“I exercise to stay physically fit.”
“When you do 'Strictly,' you're kind of restricted. You have to dance for 90 seconds, you have to choreograph for your partner.”