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Gay, nice, a legend. More gay than a legend.

Religion. Because it just causes wars. People should realise that there is no religion, we are just part of one energy and all that hippy stuff. We should all love and enjoy each other.

Have a phobia about the middle of my chest being touched. When it happens I freak out. I have to protect it when I go to sleep, put an arm over it or something. I think I saw a film when I was a baby where a guy stuck an axe in the middle of someone’s chest. I've tried everything to get rid of it, even hypnosis.

Confrontational stuff. I find it hard to get the words out of my mouth when I am upset about something. I can easily express happy thoughts.

Creating stuff. Me and Cherry make hand puppets together. We are trying to get little sketches going. The puppets are aliens called Squidgypums who live on the planet Squeeze, which is pink and squidgey. They go to other planets to find people who are fun. I thought they could drop in on celebrities, maybe Pete Doherty so that he could show them how to get [wasted]. As soon as I put my arms up the puppet's bum I don't twitch at all. Being silly is a great release of Tourettes.

Tourettes. It's made me who I am and it's part of my personality. I've used it to help create awareness. It's the reason I'm so creative and talented. When I was younger it disabled me a lot because I didn't know how to handle it. It's about letting go and not trying to hold in the ticks.

At a stall in the Millennium Dome, where you toss the rubber chicken into a pot to win a teddy bear. I had one other job as cloakroom attendant in Brighton for three years but I got the sack because I went to a party and didn't go to work. Every time I had a customer I called them a w**ker. The boss had liked it because he thought everyone was a w**ker there anyway. I don't know what to do. It would be hard to work in a bar because of the twitching. You can't spill a coat.

Don't relax. I keep twitching. It's the only part of Tourettes I don't like anymore. I can't lie down and chill out. I could take medication but I'm not really up for that. I did when I was little but it zombied me out so I took myself off it.

New Zealand because they speak English there and it's sunny. I don't like being in other countries because they can't speak English. I'm useless at learning other languages.

It helped me clear some of my demons. I had to help my mum out because I was so ill when I was little and she had to look after me. She moved to France and couldn't pay her mortgage off. I gave her my winnings.

I was the worse case of Tourettes ever recorded in Europe. I had 50 out of 55 known ticks. I was completely agoraphobic, on loads of drugs, fainting all the time and having fits and throwing myself around the room. I was so depressed I didn't want to live anymore. I came off the medication and went to special school, Parkwood Hall in Swanly. It had loads of kids with disabilities like Asperger's and Downs Syndrome. I made good friends there and it helped me come to terms with myself and gain confidence. Then I went on to 'normal' school, did A level art and got an A.

I went to this year's Big Brother audition show. There were deaf people there, a cerebral palsy person, midgets and everything. The producer asked me how did it feel to know that it was because of me that they wanted to audition? It’s wicked.