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NANCY DeLL’OLIO, 57. The U. S.- born Italian lawyer and ex-england football manager SvenGoran eriksson’s girlfriend has been on Strictly Come Dancing and Celebrity Big Brother. She admitted she thought former PM Tony Blair was ‘sexy’. She also said: ‘I’ll tell you the other world leader I met who exuded extraordinary sex appeal — Papa wojtyla [Pope John Paul II]. After we met, I started dreaming about him a lot. I still don’t know what that means.’ wILLY RUSSeLL, 71. The Liverpudlian dramatist is best known for his play educating Rita, which was turned into an Oscar-nominated film starring Michael Caine and Julie walters. Russell, who left school at 15 to become a hairdresser, said: ‘Many women, have told me that it was seeing this play that made them achieve their own education. I always say to them: “You would have done it anyway.” ’