Sara Cox
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The ability to walk in high heels.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
More exercise. Maybe I should join a gym, but I’ve never been to one.
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Everyone cutting out social media for one day a week.
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America – there are too many Americans.
I just wanted to work in music. I didn’t want a real job.
I’d like people to say, “Well, he was a bit odd, he was a bit funny.”
I’m always happy. Ask Simon Cowell: he says if I had a tail, I’d wag it.
I have a Maserati. I love pop art and I collect Warhol, Hirst and Hockney.
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