Shakin' Stevens
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I never dwell on them.
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Rolf Harris – he let us all down.
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Not being chosen as the next Bond.
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The film of Restoration. A beautiful cast. An award-winning designer. A massive budget. A dog’s dinner.
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In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
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A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
To my first real boyfriend, for being so mean to him. But really I was just being mean to myself.
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