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The Brit Awards 2007.
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What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Ivan Lendl
Czech and American tennis player
Plenty of matches got away, but there’s nothing I can do about it, so why worry?
I suspect it hasn’t happened yet.
Rob Brydon
Welsh actor and comedian
Meeting Rod Stewart.
Sally Hawkins
British actress
Realising that I wasn't a fairy changeling child and that David Bowie wasn't the fairy king.
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