du Beke
English dancer and TV presenter
When the babies were born, in March 2017.
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Identity & self
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Yesterday, because grief creeps up on you.
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View all 193 →Last week, because of an ear infection: I cried my eyes out when they put a big injection into my arse.
Robert Bathurst
English theatre and television actor
Funerals and, annoyingly, athletics medal ceremonies.
We’re not really allowed to cry where I’m from. I can only cry in summer, at the height of hay fever.
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View profile →Insomnia. I go to bed at 9.30pm and listen to Radio 4.
A Christian Dior coat.
As a half-decent 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.
I wanted to be a prosthetic makeup artist after watching A Nightmare On Elm Street.
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