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A horse. I have two: Vesperal Dream and According To Sarah.
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James Norton
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A Rose Wylie painting.
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An Andy Warhol Polaroid of Debbie Harry.
Cybill Shepherd
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A $100,000 Mercedes.
Martin Sheen
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Shares in The Way, which turned out to be the best movie I have done. Written and directed by my son Emilio, it’s a father-son story about the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage.
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View profile →Six weeks in my dad’s office doing admin was enough to persuade me to pursue a career in sport.
I would love more horses.
Lots of people, mainly for being so absent from their lives while I was concentrating on sport. I’d also like to say sorry to my dad’s mum, because, aged four, I told her she was the worst cook in the world.
Apart from two Olympic gold medals, I’m proud of finishing fifth in the Foxhunter Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in 2016, having never ridden a horse 12 months earlier.
Cows in the field next door.
A vet, but I wasn’t smart enough.
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