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Realising that I wasn't a fairy changeling child and that David Bowie wasn't the fairy king.
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What has been your biggest disappointment?Originally asked
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David Haye
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Being let down by people I trust always stings.
In the back of my mind I just assumed I’d be in a boyband at some point.
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Adeel Akhtar
British actor
After I got arrested, my dad, a lawyer, took me to a QC to try to build a case against the FBI. The dejection on his face when it became obvious that we couldn’t was disappointing.
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