“I Came from a Family Who Couldn’t Afford Dance Lessons”
She may have started out her dancing career as a live-in house sitter for Ridley Scott, worked on Hollywood movies with some of the biggest stars of the stage and screen, and choreographed some of the world’s most famous musicals, but life in the public eye hasn’t always been a smooth ride for Arlene Phillips CBE.
From paying for her early training by working in a bakery, to finding out she was pregnant just as she was on the cusp of breaking America and then again at the age of 47, to losing her job on Strictly in a very public manner, the 77-year-old star revealed the ups and downs of her career in an open interview with celebrity event planner and brand consultant Liz Taylor, on her Events That Made Me podcast.