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In rehearsals. The play is very funny about mothers and daughters, but one of the gags hit a raw nerve.
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Pauline McLynn
Irish character actress and author
Walking along Oxford Street on Saturday pulling a shopping trolley that my mother bought me. I remember saying, “I’m never going to use that!” and there I was, very grateful to have it in my life. She died before Christmas and I can’t ring her to tell her that she was right.
Kylie Minogue
Australian singer and actress
Recently watching (or trying to watch) 12 Years A Slave.
Angus Deayton
English actor, comedian, presenter and writer
England 1 Iceland 2.
Andy Roddick
American tennis player
At my oldest friend’s wedding.
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Undiagnosed VIPoma in 2018.
People are often traumatised by the sleeplessness in the first years of their children’s lives, but I was insanely happy to be married and have two children. The only dark cloud was how much we were loathed for having babies who slept through the night.
All the things I ought to have done.
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