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My password. [In 2014, Brown Findlay’s iCloud account was hacked.]
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Lauren Laverne
English radio DJ, and television presenter
It would have been lovely to have grown up in private like a lot of my friends.
Joan Jett
American singer, songwriter and guitarist
I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
Ice-T
American rapper and actor
To be born independently wealthy.
Adwoa Aboah
British fashion model
Nothing. Everything’s got me to this point and I had to learn lots of things. Maybe I just wouldn’t have been so terrified all the time and I would have got up a bit earlier – I missed quite a few mornings.
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I used to do silver service waitressing at parties and events. The job was great, but there was constant harassment and groping from older men, and I hadn’t found my voice yet. It’s terrifying when you are young and you need a job.
My younger self: I had no love for her and I was cruel and she never deserved it.
My wedding day last year. It was supposed to be 4 April and, in the end, it was 12 September.
A ballet dancer. I danced from age two to 19. Giving up was not a choice; I had complications in an ankle operation.
The thought of infinity.
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