Tommy Hilfiger
American fashion designer
My first business, People's Place, went bankrupt in the mid-70s.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Finding cucumber in things is a continual disappointment.
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Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London since 2016
Labour losing the 2015 election: we weren’t able to help the people who needed us most.
Not playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. I am a huge Brando fan and a big Tennessee Williams fan and it’s a part I would love to have a go at. It’s possible I still could but I’m too old, really.
Rose Ayling-Ellis
British actress
I didn’t email my grandfather enough before he passed away.
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My mother. Any child of a single parent, if they are in a relationship when they become a parent, thinks, “How the hell did you do it alone?”
Last week I saw a moorhen feeding her chicks, and became overwhelmed by the miracle of parenthood and maternal sacrifice. And I hadn’t even been drinking.
It’s a toss-up between organising a new filing system at Hammersmith & Fulham social services and relying on tips in the least popular restaurant in London to get through drama school.
Finding your place.
That will depend on when and how I die, but you couldn’t beat The Birdie Song to set the right tone.
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