On BBC Breakfast, I accidentally said “fuck” on air. My microphone had been turned on when I wasn’t in the room. It went out across the telly and they had to apologise.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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I couldn’t do it. I realised recently that all the things that have gone wrong are just as important as all the things that went right.
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My password. [In 2014, Brown Findlay’s iCloud account was hacked.]
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The death of my wife: I’d happily have gone first.
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I would try to work on being able to trust people more easily.
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