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"Jennifer Grey has said that her former Dirty Dancing co-star Patrick Swayze inspired her to seize the opportunity to appear on Dancing With The Stars. The 50-year-old actress, who is due to appear in the upcoming season of the ABC series, said that Swayze&amp;#039;s death last September from pancreatic cancer, and her own experience of the illness, made her re-evaluate her outlook on life. She told Access Hollywood: &amp;quot;Patrick was one of the most fearless people I\u2019ve ever met. [He] really embraced life and was all about going for it. &amp;quot;I have been living my life very differently [to how Patrick lived his], and right now - especially since his passing, and my surgeries and having had cancer myself, and turning 50, and seeing so many of my friends with cancer who are my age - it\u2019s kind of [an] epidemic. &amp;quot;It\u2019s given me a sense of, &amp;#039;If not now, when?&amp;#039; When are you supposed to reclaim the joy that you had as a young person?&amp;quot; Dancing With The Stars premieres September 20 at 9/8C on ABC. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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