Omid Djalili
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Sinatra's The Best Is Yet To Come.
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Our family song – Three Is A Magic Number, which my husband played me on the way back from the maternity hospital.
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She’s Gone by Hall and Oates, but with the words changed to He’s Gone.
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An actress. My family thought it was ridiculous, it was like saying you wanted to be an astronaut.
To my grandma Faye, because I didn’t realise, when I was growing up, what an icon she was. She fought at Cable Street, and worked her arse off to get the family out of the tenements. She had a lot of wisdom to impart.
I am a living self-help book – I’ve managed to train myself to never regret anything.
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