Right now, like I have no intention of going anywhere else.
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Like I would die for them in a nanosecond.
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Pulling yourself out of a wild ocean and on to a life raft.
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There are one or two relationships where I’d see the red flags much earlier.
I was happiest in every aspect of my life in the 1990s, when I was married to Paddy [King, a management consultant] and we had the two children and my mum lived with us, and Countdown was the biggest show on Channel 4.
My aeroplane, a Diamond DA42. It’s a twin-engine aircraft and I bought her brand new to fly around the world solo. Very sadly my mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer about six weeks before I was due to take off, in May 2017, and she died early June. After that, I lost interest in doing it.
I still say yes to too many things.
Living in a campervan for a week with Timmy Mallett for a children’s TV show about 40 years ago.
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