Laurence Fox
English actor and activist
A motorbike crash. I broke my shoulder and ribs and was so scared I didn’t ride for two years.
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I’ve had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.
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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.
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
Olivia Williams
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Undiagnosed VIPoma in 2018.
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I wouldn’t bother learning how to use logarithms, and I might give netball a miss.
Last Tuesday at 10 past three.
Working on an assembly line in a plastics factory.
Bloody radiator keeps banging. I think it needs air releasing but I don’t have a bleeding key.
When I read the story of a blind, bisexual goose called Thomas who had died in New Zealand after a lifetime of love for a swan called Henry. It sounds ridiculous but is entirely true.
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