I auditioned for Starlight
Express at the time. My
audition was with Arlene
Phillips….she’d known
of me as a dancer
through circles and TV.
I put my roller skates on,
auditioned, fell flat on
my backside.
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in my nature so I was always fighting with
that. So, I was a good kid.
JE: After that what did you think you
were going to do?
JE: Tell me about playing football?
KD: I mean, it’s different now, obviously,
there’s lots of education within the
football side of things with the schooling
and academies. But, when I was growing
up, football, it was, “I’m going to be
a footballer and that’s it.” There was
nobody saying, “Yeah, but you really
should think long term.” I was going to
be a footballer and that was it. So when
that wasn’t going to be possible, I had
no idea, I was… I was lost. I was lost
thinking, “right, okay…” My education
wasn’t great and I hadn’t got any more
plans to do anything else so I had to start
from scratch.
KD: I love my football. I played for
Liverpool School Boys. I am an avid
Liverpool fan. I really wanted to go all the
way with football but injuries stopped
me. I was absolutely gutted about that. I
represented the county as well. But once
I had the injury I knew that I was never
going to make it so I stopped. I didn’t play
and I didn’t even watch football for about
two years, it offended me that much.
Eventually I said to myself, “oh, come on,
you’ve got to get it together.” So, it took
me two years to even watch it again and
I was absolutely gutted. So, that kind of
threw me off track a bit because I really
never thought, “W hat am I going to do?” I
had no idea whatsoever what I was going
to do other than football.
JE: What age was that?
KD: That was 15. So, 15 years of age
when really I should have been setting