Quotes from Craig Revel Horwood

If I have to do my tax online, the government should pay for my Internet hook-up, darling.

I feel as though I'm constantly defending myself. I'm up against challengers from the ballroom world, from the dance world, people on the couch who hate what I'm saying about their favourite celebrity. Then you're up against the press, who will always want to put you in a box.

I met Prince Harry at Westminster and I want him to be my new boyfriend, but unfortunately I don't think it is going to happen.

People tend to think when you're at the top, you need bashing down. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

X Factor' creates a Christmas single that puts money in other people's pockets. Whereas 'Strictly''s not out to do that, at all. That's why I stand up for it - it isn't car-crash television.

Actors are very emotional, whereas sports people are used to criticism.

Ricky Whittle is fabulous.

With 'The X Factor' I think the audiences have lost faith and trust in it so that's its problem. You want to be watching something real and dynamic and something you can trust and believe in.

Street dance resonates for teenagers. It's inclusive and brings in different audiences.

I've battled food issues since my late teens.

I believe in civil partnerships as it protects each partner. Whether I believe in marriage is a different thing.

I play the Wicked Queen in 'Snow White.' I'm not typecast. It's terrible. I should be Prince Charming.

Friendly Fires were dull, and I wouldn't really sit down and listen to Hot Chip.

I was bisexual for a long time. I flitted between men and women quite a lot between the ages of 17 and 26.

Strictly' has evolved - there are such beautiful stories within each dance. We're not doing a ballroom and Latin competition, it's an entertainment show.

The Thorn Birds' by Colleen McCullough. I took it on a holiday to Greece and just fell in love with it.

My relationship with my dad was complex, especially when I came out. The years of verbal abuse, all of it drink-fuelled, were difficult. Later, though, he came to see me on stage in 'La Cage aux Folles' - one of his favourite shows - and loved it. Theatre won him over and he accepted me in the end.

What would people be surprised to know about me? That I love cooking and chopping wood for the heating system in my house.

Sometimes people need to think of themselves as lions or tigers. Even panthers.

Discovering that my great-great-grandfather Harry was Australasian clog-dancing champion in 1871 was extraordinary.

My tights split while I was tap dancing in the West End in 1993.

Celebrity is worthless and useless, it takes away your privacy.

I'm tongue in cheek, but very much to the point.

Lots of celebrities have had some sort of dance training, especially actors or singers - they have to have some movement skill and be trained physically.