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I wouldn’t marry anybody until I met Anna.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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I wouldn’t have drunk alcohol.
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I would have started therapy earlier.
There are one or two relationships where I’d see the red flags much earlier.
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Raising my children, Tom and Libby, on my own.
When I got married in 2016. I’d had a chance to practise three times before, so I was comfortable.
As the happy man who made happy television programmes.
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