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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
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Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
My wedding. It was at Skibo Castle long before Madonna or any of those people went there.
Ruth Jones
Welsh actress, producer, and writer
A bed from Savoir Beds. People spend loads of money on cars, but spend more of their lives sleeping than driving. The maths is wrong, if you ask me.
I take my family on holiday. We went to Egypt just after Christmas. Golly, it’s expensive.
Charlotte Church
Welsh singer-songwriter and actress
When I was 18, I bought a boat for a million pounds and sold it a year later for just over half the price.
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