Quotes from Craig Revel Horwood

For personality, you're not going to get better than Ricky Groves. He really goes for it.

I love my bike, a hybrid Matrix Express, which is fast, cheap, easy to park and good exercise.

If you really have a passion for something, you should follow it and listen to your inner voice.

All my ex-boyfriends, bar one, are my best friends.

My advice gets misconstrued as being mean.

I love my sporty but classic brown leather Picard satchel.

I was bullied mercilessly through school for my weight problem.

I hated sport, but at 13, I went to an aerobics class and the teacher thought I had natural rhythm. She suggested formal dance classes, and that's when I finally found something I was really good at.

There can be dramas in your life and you can get over them and become someone. You don't have to wallow in self-pity; you can actually use the experiences in your life to push yourself further and help others.

Love Island' is for people who aren't celebrities, who've done nothing in their life and are trying to be someone and get something to be famous.

I grew up with 'Chess' and the music from the show.

I chose when I was 30 to change my life entirely and become a director and sit in the dark and that's what I love doing.

I like fresh, crisp, cool, plain white cotton sheets from Calvin Klein.

I used to go to clubs and sing as myself but people weren't interested. And then I turned up as a woman and suddenly everyone was interested.

The colour of someone's skin doesn't explain anything.

I don't want a splashy magazine wedding with celebrities.

I like laying by the pool but I do tend to get a bit bored after a couple of days chilling out.

As a dancer, you go from one show to the next, and you never know where your next pound is coming from, and I think that's what makes me say yes to so many things, because there's always a fear that you won't have a job.

I'm a lovely person, considerate and loving.

The problem is most people in the world can't take criticism.

I danced with Courtney Act, which was absolutely fantastic.

But 'Strictly' is meant to showcase people with talents in acting, singing, sports, journalism... not fame-seekers with no discernible talent.

If I was to pretend my father didn't exist and I didn't have anything to remember him by, then it wouldn't be healthy.

How many dancers in their life get a job that will last 15 years? Not many.