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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
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Carlos Acosta
Cuban ballet dancer
A 1955 Jaguar XK120. It was not in very good condition and, little by little, I brought it back to its former splendour.
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.
A Vivienne Westwood & Burberry two-piece suit I bought for a press night. At the time I was: “Yeah, of course I’m going to be a 30-inch waist for the rest of my life.” Now the trousers don’t fit.
Julien Macdonald
Welsh fashion designer
A very expensive watch. I can’t tell you what it is – I’ll get robbed.
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Being friends with all of the people I grew up with.
It used to be myself, but I am over that now.
Just an instinct, but I think reading more Mark Twain.
Helen Edmundson, because I wasn’t able to be a better friend at school.
Right now, terrifying.
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