Harry Redknapp
English football player and manager
A car accident in Italy in 1990. Four people got killed. I was lucky, I got thrown out.
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I had heart surgery when I was 17. The other time was when I fell off my piano. My head was an inch away from a metal step.
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Ray Mears
British woodsman and TV presenter
In a helicopter crash in Wyoming in 2005. My cameraman broke his back and both legs; the pilot broke his back. The helicopter didn’t catch fire, so I’m still here today.
Rolling a quad bike.
Vanessa Redgrave
British actress and activist
In April 2015 I nearly died, as my heart was finding it too difficult to keep my smoke-destroyed lungs going.
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View profile →Surviving the music industry. I think it’s been responsible for killing a lot of musicians. Lots of us have mental health issues, and drink and drug problems, and the industry doesn’t really care.
Everyone I ever met in 2007, because I was definitely about two hours late.
My mum, because she’s been a nurse for over 40 years. She works in a hospice, and there’s no bullshit with her.
That all the cliches about people in the music industry are true.
British summers give me a really happy feeling. My bedroom at our family home in Harrow looks out on to our garden and a cricket field, and you just know when it’s the first day of summer.
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