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Hitchhiking across Australia as a teenager, relying on the kindness of passing serial killers.
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Paapa Essiedu
British actor
In 2016, the moment my agent rang me to tell me I’d got the part of Hamlet for the RSC. While I was on the phone, I looked to my left and turned to the right, and a bus whizzed by and the wing mirror was so close to me that it knocked my hat off.
Many times on British roads, because I drive very fast. In another life, I would have liked doing Formula One.
Liam Gallagher
English singer-songwriter
When I was about seven or eight years old, I was messing about in a brook with my brothers and a friend of mine, Paul Hewitt, and I almost drowned. Paul saved me.
Steph McGovern
Broadcaster
Falling off what we in Middlesbrough call a “tarzy”, a bungee rope. I was swinging on it, fell and broke my arm.
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People who pretend to have perfect marriages. Perfect marriages are like orgasms – many of them are faked.
Not winning any literary prizes.
My own books being discounted. Oh, and sharks. The reason we Aussies swim so fast is because something much bigger is always trying to eat us.
Bumping into my male boss at a nudist beach.
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