Zoe Ball
British TV and radio personality
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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Sid Vicious doing My Way.
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Tracy-Ann Oberman
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Our family song – Three Is A Magic Number, which my husband played me on the way back from the maternity hospital.
David Shrigley
British visual artist
The theme tune to Countdown.
Shirley MacLaine
American actress and author
The Nutcracker Suite pas de deux.
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Sometimes it was disappointing not to have the fan base at home in the UK that we had elsewhere.
Painting 11 identical dentists’ offices magnolia. It was Kafkaesque. By the time you are in office four, you are losing your mind.
Last year, when I had all four kids – Daisy, Kingston, Zuma and Apollo – staying with me on my birthday. It was magical.
Funny and generous.
The fact that I am still making music.
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