James Corden
English actor and comedian
Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp.
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The whole of The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill.
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Christopher Eccleston
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Hot Legs by Rod Stewart: I’m going to be cremated.
Richard Osman
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The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash, or the theme tune to Pointless.
Gloria Estefan
Cuban-American singer and songwriter
A song I wrote years ago called Remember Me With Love.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – everything she writes speaks to me. Her Ted talk, We Should All Be Feminists, inspired everything I do with Gurls Talk.
I wanted to be a cooker. Not a cook: I wanted to actually be the stove.
They are already things I work on: routine and less sugar.
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.
For persevering, and being a good role model.
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