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Still to come, I think.
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Kathy Lette
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Raising two children. If you can get your kids to adulthood and they’re not voting Tory, doing drugs or collecting Nazi memorabilia, then you deserve a medal.
Tim Peake
British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
Doing the spacewalk to fix a solar panel at the furthest edge of the ISS. You have no idea if you are going to get a chance to do a spacewalk when you go into space. I was fortunate. There’s a real juxtaposition between floating, completely serene and calm, looking down at Earth and the universe, and being aware that you are in this hostile environment.
Michael Ball
English singer, presenter and actor
I am pretty proud of having got Aspects of Love back into the West End.
Lil Nas X
American rapper
I feel like it’s always what I’m about to do.
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