She was nominated for the 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Theatre Choreographer for the 1998 production of Saturday Night Fever.
She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to Dance.
She attended Broughton Preparatory School in Cheetham Hill, Manchester; Beaver Road Primary School in Didsbury; and Manchester Central High School for Girls after passing the eleven plus exam.
She got her first break into show business when she was a babysitter for Sir Ridley Scott, who used her as a choreographer in an ice-cream commercial on British television.
She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to Dance and to Charity. She is a choreographer.
[on homosexual marriage] True love, there are no boundaries.
When you think, it was back in the Eighties, wasn't it, Boy George: "War is stupid." Everyone was singing about it, and on we go and on we go and on we go.