The question
Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗
A £400 Zandra Rhodes dress for the royal premiere of The Railway Children. More recently, a Wurlitzer jukebox for my husband’s birthday.
I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.
A fast Golf car. I got rid of it after about six months because it kept depreciating in value.
I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.
I never finished The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir.
People who can’t wait to argue.
At a pub in Rotherham. I was a really bad waitress and I ended up being demoted to chopping the potatoes and I even got fired from that.
My mind is changing about being a mum. I got a dog and the way I feel about it is a lot, and I realise maybe I would want to be a mum.
Julie Hesmondhalgh – she’s the kindest, brightest, most truthful woman. She’s so talented, works hard, cares about the right things, puts her energy in the right places. I adore her.
Big, shy, angry.
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