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My microphone cost me six grand.
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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
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Simon Mayo
English radio presenter and author
My glasses. They were more than a grand.
Kevin Pietersen
English cricketer
Cars. I’ve got a Tesla at the moment.
Marc Almond
English singer
A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
Rachel Whiteread
English artist
A car, which is used like a van; I should have just bought the van.
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Cleaning toilets in a motorway service station.
To my dad for not making it back to Birmingham to see him while I was in London doing The Streets.
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