Madhur Jaffrey
Actress, cook, and TV host
None: I do not want a funeral.
What song would you like played at your funeral?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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No songs, please. Don’t make a fuss.
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Joseph Fiennes
English actor
Jeff Buckley's rendition of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
Suggs
Singer
Is That All There Is? by Peggy Lee. I find it uplifting, because we all suffer these things in life. Will my funeral be happy or sad? Depends who you’re talking to. Some people will be happy. A couple will be sad. But I’d like a jolly affair.
Olivia Colman
British actress
Summer Breeze, by the Isley Brothers.
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View profile →The next morning. It rarely turns out as bad as I think it’s going to be.
As a charming, helpful, solicitous, generous, loving, carefree and constantly funny companion, lover and father. Some hope of that.
An actor. Then I grew out of that and became one by default. Or sort of one: “Not really an actor”, said Michael Billington.
I’ll be at my happiest today, and probably my gloomiest at some point today, too.
Adolescent love feels like exquisite self-indulgence. Long-term love feels like a warm bath that needs a trickle of extra hot water every now and then.
Sorry, I’m British and middle class, so I’ve already apologised to virtually everybody I have ever met.
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