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Art. We have some Picassos and Diego Riveras.
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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
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Jeremy Vine
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My penny farthing. It was £1,200. I’ve ridden it to Buckingham Palace and back.
Olivia Williams
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An electric car.
Belinda Carlisle
American singer
I’ve been doing pilates for 25 years and I swear by it. I decided to kit out a room with pilates equipment – and I think it’s the most expensive thing I’ve invested in.
A pair of Back to the Future shoes. They were auctioned off for Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s charity, so I bid and I won. I am a huge fan of the films and if there was ever a pair of shoes I should own, it was those.
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View profile →When I feel that I am unprepared. Before a show I always have nightmares that I go out on stage naked.
My life is wonderful – I can’t ask for one more thing.
Being able to communicate with people all over the world through my music.
I’ve only done two and loved them both – one in the band, and the other as an interpreter in customs.
1 March 1991, when I got back on the stage almost a year after a road accident in our tour bus. I felt like I had climbed Mount Everest. That was euphoric.
Comforting, solid, unconditional, a drug.
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