Shappi Khorsandi
Iranian-born British comedian
A walk-on part for my mum in Les Misérables. It was in a charity auction. She always dreamed of being in a West End show.
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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What most recently made you cry?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A television. I don’t care for things. When I moved, I downsized and threw away most of my possessions.
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Rylan Clark-Neal
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A matt grey Range Rover. It’s been rebadged, so instead of Range Rover it says Range Rylan.
Andi Oliver
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I’ve never bought a property. The most expensive thing I’ve bought was a Hyundai Tucson.
Jenna Coleman
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A Matisse and my Leica camera.
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I have the invisibility of a middle-aged woman. I live in Brighton, and feel for the first time in my life that I belong. My kids are safe, my husband’s in a good place and we have a roof over our head: I can’t imagine needing more than that.
For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.
Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
When I heard John Noakes had died.
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