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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
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Dominic Cooper
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My Austin Healey.
Julien Macdonald
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A very expensive watch. I can’t tell you what it is – I’ll get robbed.
Nick Grimshaw
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A table that used to belong to David Bowie: it was £13,000.
Suzi Quatro
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A mink coat in 1975 (it was the done thing then). It cost me £5,500.
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