Aidan Gillen
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The floral waistcoat and shocking-pink shirt combo I wore on my 21st.
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Boarding school. It was horrible.
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Some of those late nights.
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Nothing. Without my past I wouldn’t be who I am today.
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A hydrogen-powered private jet for me and my dog. We’d be zero carbon dioxide emissions, so could go anywhere we liked.
Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.
Camping with my parents in the south of France. We went every year with the beautiful bell tent they made on a sewing machine. We even had a lavatory tent which was fabulous except, one day, it blew away with my father in it.
Threat of nuclear war, Iran/US situation, Syria, everything. I take sleeping pills.
Raising awareness of ethical and environmental issues in the clothing industry. I think I was the original whistleblower within fashion.
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