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I am not a great crier.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 February 2022 source ↗
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What most recently made you cry?Originally asked
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Richard Osman
English TV presenter and writer
I cry at everything – adverts, Gogglebox, hugging my kids. I love crying: it’s like your pain is laughing.
Bernadine Evaristo
English author and academic
I cried after I won the Booker.
Listening to a song that my brother-in-law – the brother of Jason, my first husband – wrote, about how hard it was to live without his brother.
Karamo Brown
American television host, personality and actor
I cried this morning watching RuPaul’s Drag Race. I love seeing queens overcome challenges.
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Being nominated for an award and not winning – there have been a couple.
As someone who did his best.
When I lived with my grandmother in Trinidad, before I came to England to live with my mother in Newcastle at the age of seven.
A 1956 Selmer silver alto saxophone.
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