Natalie Massenet

Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.