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A case of Chateau Margaux 59.
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Melanie Chisholm
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Holidays. In the Spice Girls, we found ourselves with quite a few quid, so it was lovely to hire a big house in the Caribbean and have friends and family over.
David Arquette
American actor, producer, & former professional wrestler
I collect old costumes: I have one of Johnny Cash’s, and Liberace’s shoes.
A pair of Back to the Future shoes. They were auctioned off for Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s charity, so I bid and I won. I am a huge fan of the films and if there was ever a pair of shoes I should own, it was those.
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An Elizabeth Peyton painting.
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Father Christmas at a department store. The plaintive sadness of the children’s unrealistic requests was almost unbearable.
Being exquisitely alive.
Rufus Wainwright’s Get Happy.
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