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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
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Warwick Davis
English actor
Our campervan. It’s fully kitted out, sleeps four and lowers down, so we can get in and out easily.
A brilliant hi-tech, low weight tent.
Shane MacGowan
Irish singer-songwriter
I had this idiotic manager for a while who got me an Armani suit and then got the money off me.
Kiefer Sutherland
British and Canadian actor
Aside from a car, it would be a guitar. I used to have almost 100, but now I am down to 22.
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