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I wouldn’t marry anybody until I met Anna.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Emma Barnett
British broadcaster and journalist
Not being able to have a baby for two and a half years. Lots of people say it made me a better person; I think it made me worse. You go to a very dark place with your friends because they are having kids, and you want to be happy for them but you’re not.
Nothing at all.
I would build relationships. I would remember people’s significant moments. I would not fear closeness.
Cerys Matthews
Welsh singer-songwriter
I’d be born a man and have a wife to run the house.
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View profile →A sailor. I wanted to be in the Royal Navy like my grandad.
Raising my children, Tom and Libby, on my own.
As the happy man who made happy television programmes.
When I got married in 2016. I’d had a chance to practise three times before, so I was comfortable.
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