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I bought a pink leader’s jersey from the 1953 Tour of Italy which belonged to Swiss rider Hugo Koblet. I spent £45,000.
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Don Warrington
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A 1956 Selmer silver alto saxophone.
Douglas Stuart
Scottish fashion designer and novelist
My creative freedom. I was the creative director of a large fashion brand when I packed it all in to pursue my writing.
Ruth Jones
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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.
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View profile →I had quite a chequered childhood. I had a knife put to my throat once when I was a kid, which was very scary.
I’ve never had a job.
This isn’t a complaint, but obscurity would be nice. You can’t have a bad day in public because everyone’s got phones.
Loss of control.
When my second child Bella was born in 2006. I missed my son Ben being born because I was racing, so seeing it for the first time was quite an experience.
As an honest person who did his best.
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