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Every time I let my wife drive.
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How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
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Harry Redknapp
English football player and manager
A car accident in Italy in 1990. Four people got killed. I was lucky, I got thrown out.
Julien Macdonald
Welsh fashion designer
When I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for charity. It was horrendous.
Gemma Chan
British Chinese actress
In 2012 I stared into the eyes of someone who had just stabbed a man in the neck on the street. I was trying to help the victim; for a very long three or four seconds, I thought he was going to come for me next.
Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
I was on a plane in India and I thought it was going to crash. It was an old, rickety thing. It was pre-children - I wouldn't do it now.
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On a caravan site on a farm in the Brecon Beacons when I was a kid. I have three sisters and every year we met family friends with kids the same age. We would go to the river and make rope swings and build dens. It was very Enid Blyton.
Barack Obama. On a daily basis he faced racism, and I admire him for trying to push through that to better his nation.
Airline tickets. I spend a lot on flying because I’ve three kids in the UK.What would your superpower be?To drink as much beer as I can without putting on weight.
Another One Bites The Dust.
When I was 17, I worked in a warehouse in Rotherham doing an audit of truck parts. I counted nuts and bolts all day long.
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