Following her cancer recovery, actor Alex Kingston found poise and purpose on Strictly Come Dancing . Now, with a new ITV political thriller on the way, she tells Alicia Lansom why she’s joyfully embracing everything that life has to offer

It’s 2013 and my best friend Clare and I are midway through one of our regular, booze-soaked weekends. We’re celebrating my 33rd birthday – the perfect excuse to really go for it. The fact that it’s S

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Q My partner and I love each other very much and our sex life is great. But it annoys us that we always do the same things, in the same way, on the same night – Sunday, when we’ve recovered from our e

Alexis (she/her), 32, and Liam Blake (he/him), are based in Doncaster and have been a key voice as a married couple around transgender rights