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I loved my 1 minute 40 seconds singing at the coronation of King Charles. I was the most nervous I’ve been.
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What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
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Paapa Essiedu
British actor
After losing my mum still managing to finish drama school, because that was really difficult. I lost her in the first year.
John Prescott
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
Kyoto, when Tony Blair gave me the opportunity to start the first legislative framework for climate change.
Now that I’m at this end of my career, I’m gobsmacked that I’ve managed to cling on for as long as I have.
Michael Ball
English singer, presenter and actor
I am pretty proud of having got Aspects of Love back into the West End.
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One horrible afternoon in Chicago when I forgot my words in The Marriage of Figaro, in a role I’d sung hundreds of times.
Absolutely nothing.
“You’re a wonderful musician but a terrible friend.” It was Daniel Barenboim, the famous conductor, because I didn’t have time in the calendar to work with him.
In 2006, I went fishing for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. On the way back, one of the engines caught fire and then we had one engine for 70 miles. Slowly but surely, we got to Baton Rouge in the darkness but then got very close to a very large passing ship – they didn’t see us and we didn’t see them.
That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
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