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I love clothes and accoutrements, so it would be either a suit or a watch. I love Mark Powell in Soho, and Paul Smith.
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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
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A mink coat in 1975 (it was the done thing then). It cost me £5,500.
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My collection of paintings. I have some by William Burroughs.
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A Feurich piano: one of the first things I bought when I could afford it.
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“I don’t love you.”
I say it a lot to my kids when I’ve lost my temper, and I’ll save up a big one for when they are 18.
It’s hard to beat David Attenborough. Everything he does is quality. I like people who make me proud to be British.
I wanted to be a footballer and then a squash player – I was in with a chance because I was very good. But I fell out of love with that by 14 or 15 and joined a youth theatre.
A really careful lobotomy, to switch off bits of my brain.
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