The question
How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
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Rolling a quad bike.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 February 2026 source ↗
A car accident in Italy in 1990. Four people got killed. I was lucky, I got thrown out.
When I was seven or eight, I got run over and was actually under the car, which was scary. I just ran out; it was totally my fault. I was fine – all I got was a tiny scar on my knee.
Being about nine metres away from a polar bear. In northern Canada, a young polar bear was very intrigued by our food. I was flying the drone at the time and the polar bear looked up and started paying attention, so then we flew the drone further away and he followed it while we got into our vehicles.
Abseiling down a cliff for Doc Martin in a suit, carrying a medical bag.
Disneyland x a million.
Know the things you are responsible for and the things you aren’t.
Trying quite hard.
Sickeningly, it’s probably my wife, because she’s a legend.
Football player of the year 4th XI 2002.
“I have it on very good authority he’s a complete cunt.”
Kate Nash, Roger McGough, Keir Starmer, Monty Don, Sandy Powell, Lance Black
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