I was already dancing and my mum took me to a local class with my sister. We have lots of photographs of me at that age doing my medal tests and dressed in funny costumes that my mum would make. I was shy and fairly introverted. We moved to the UK from Naples in Italy just before my fifth birthday. By the time I was seven, I was pretty fluent in English.
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