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As if being fans of competing sports teams isn’t bad enough, my husband Joe and I are political opposites.

Dianne Buswell is set to make Strictly history on Saturday as the first professional dancer to compete on the live show while pregnant.

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He struggled to get elected to parliament and, by the time he arrived in Westminster in 1987 aged 46, he was competing with a younger generation of politicians.

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Davies, who was recently announced as the lead for next year's Legally Blonde musical tour, also competed in the 16th series of Dancing on Ice.

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She is an entrepreneur whose firm invests in businesses that provide services and work with, or compete against, local government.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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