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Episode: AJ Odudu - ‘Living to tell the tale is the joyful thing’
Description: Big Brother host, Strictly Come Dancing finalist and the woman who, by her own admission, ‘puts black into Blackburn’, AJ Odudu is a force to be reckoned with. Growing up in Lancashire, no one ever knew how to pronounce her name and she was questioned constantly on why she was different. But as an adult, she has turned these early experiences into inner strength - resilience that has served her well throughout personal and professional failures.
Now she’s best known for being the host of the recently rebooted Big Brother but a decade earlier, she lost her pr...