"I was as terrified as I could possibly be because the bosses at the time had made a decision, and I quite literally was the last to know, and I was so afraid, and I was pretty sure that I wouldn ...

"I came at a time of a lot of controversy for the show, and it wasn’t, I don't think, a happy occasion, really — for anyone, including me." ...

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