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I once threw up on the shoes of one of my vocal heroes, the Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan. He sent me home in a taxi with a towel.
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When were you most embarrassed?Originally asked
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View all 122 →Having somebody pull my judo trousers down at a competition when I was seven. And finding I wasn’t wearing any pants.
Forty-eight hours after giving birth, I sent a picture that someone had sent me of their baby to a WhatsApp group, thinking it was my son (they kind of looked similar). Mortifying.
That time I congratulated a waitress on being pregnant.
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Being called upon by President Bush to ask him a question at a press conference when I wasn’t there. He called my name … and there was no response!
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I’ve been asleep at the wheel on the M11, had an engine fire over the Atlantic in a light aircraft, driven unprotected through an enemy firing zone to do a gig in wartime Sarajevo – the list goes on and on. But I did have stage 3 throat cancer and was cured by some fantastic UK medics.
A Cessna Golden Eagle eight-seater aircraft. I flew it across the Atlantic both ways and did two US tours and two European tours in it. I finally sold it and got a job as an airline pilot in which I was paid to fly, rather than the other way round.
Procrastination.
Well, I’m not too happy about snakes. I also hate sand. It’s very inconvenient.
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