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“I don’t love you.”
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What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Gemma Whelan
English actress
The fans’ reaction at the end of Game Of Thrones because I think it was brilliant.
My wife and I were meant to meet Frank Sinatra before he went on stage in Hamburg. But there was a taxi-drivers’ strike and we were too late.
Pamela Anderson
Canadian-American actress and model
That after I collected countless signatures on a petition, the Queen's Guard still wear bearskin hats.
I was very sorry to stop at two children – I would have liked to have had a third – and I am very sorry to have got divorced.
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View profile →Thinking about all the worst possible things: losing people, dying, how am I going to die? All that sort of stuff. I stay awake thinking about furniture and shoes as well. It’s not all death.
I love clothes and accoutrements, so it would be either a suit or a watch. I love Mark Powell in Soho, and Paul Smith.
A really careful lobotomy, to switch off bits of my brain.
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.
When I am in Italy with the family, not thinking about work.
The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.
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