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SHORTCUT TO HAPPINESS

Despite everything, Bill Bailey got a fair bit done in 2020. He wrote and published a short book with a very long title, Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to Happiness: The feelgood book of the year.

He went on the BBC’s – the show known as in its local format – and he won the thing. At 55, the comedian was the oldest contestant but also the most musical. And, as he writes in , he did have ballroom lessons for a while as a teenager when his mother sent him to the dance school across the road from the Bailey home in Keynsham, near Bath. His mum, who died in 2005, would have been proud, he said

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