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When I was a kid in Tooting, our house caught fire. We didn’t realise until the fire brigade turned up.
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Kevin Pietersen
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Being charged by a white rhino on a walking safari. It came running towards us and I froze, which is the right thing to do. If it had hit us, it would have been goodnight.
When my first husband died, because it felt like my life was over, and it was challenging to keep in life at the time.
Beverley Knight
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On a flight to Newcastle, when we had terrible storms. The plane dropped quickly and the oxygen masks fell down. We had to land in Manchester.
Mathew Horne
English actor
Last Christmas I was clipped by a train. Mum was dying so my head was elsewhere. I was walking home and had to cross one of those crossings that say, “Stop, look and listen.” I didn’t do any of those things, and I had my headphones in so I couldn’t even hear the train. It clipped my left elbow.
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