Darcey Bussell

When I was in my early twenties, I didn’t feel any strong pressure to achieve great things because few people of my age had done anything spectacular. But I remember seeing Darcey Bussell in an advert on television around that time. She had become the principal dancer at the Royal Ballet in 1989, when she was 20 years old.

I remember thinking: she’s about my age and globally famous, as well as being cultured