I am a living self-help book – I’ve managed to train myself to never regret anything.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Sheena Easton
Scottish singer
I read too much science fiction to mess with anything. I’d be terrified that, by changing something, my kids wouldn’t be mine.
Kiefer Sutherland
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I would take things a little slower.
Burt Reynolds
American actor
I wouldn’t have done the naked centrefold in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1972.
Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London since 2016
I would have had more time with my dad before he passed away.
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View profile →An actress. My family thought it was ridiculous, it was like saying you wanted to be an astronaut.
A beautiful, sequined dress for a showbiz function. It was pushing £1,850.
To my grandma Faye, because I didn’t realise, when I was growing up, what an icon she was. She fought at Cable Street, and worked her arse off to get the family out of the tenements. She had a lot of wisdom to impart.
Our family song – Three Is A Magic Number, which my husband played me on the way back from the maternity hospital.
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