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Bussell, Darcey Andrea (OBE)
1969-
Also known as Marnie Crittle
British ballerina
Bussell's parents were married but separated before she was born. Her mother (also a ballerina) remarried and she was adopted by her step-father, a dentist. She has been principal ballerina with the Royal Ballet since 1990. Her birth father, John Crittle, was a fashionable tailor, whose clients included The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Procul Harum, Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix.
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She has never met her father, who lives in Australia.
References
Pendlebury, Richard, and Shears, Richard. "The Ballerina, the Teenage Mum and the Father She Never Knew ...," Daily Mail [London], 21 September 1995, pp. 44-45Dempster, Nigel. "Mail Diary," Daily Mail [London], 13 September 1995, p. 29
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