I don’t really flash money about.
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I don’t really flash money about.
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Diamonds for my wife.
A holiday in New York for my son Arran’s 18th.
A beautiful, sequined dress for a showbiz function. It was pushing £1,850.
I spend most money on my garden.
A car crash in the Utah mountains in 2005. We were driving from Arizona to Salt Lake City to go to a basketball game and the car slipped on black ice and we skidded off the motorway, flipped over and rolled down a ravine. The police officer said it was the worst accident he’d seen in 18 years when nobody died.
Like hugging your children first thing in the morning and kissing them goodnight.
Cleaning the changing rooms at Kensington leisure centre from the age of 16.
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