Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?

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I spend most money on my garden.

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My aeroplane, a Diamond DA42. It’s a twin-engine aircraft and I bought her brand new to fly around the world solo. Very sadly my mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer about six weeks before I was due to take off, in May 2017, and she died early June. After that, I lost interest in doing it.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2026 source ↗
Katherine Parkinson English actor
A Chanel dress. I bought it with my first proper paycheck and it was ridiculously expensive. It is also hideous.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 September 2020 source ↗
Joan Jett American singer, songwriter and guitarist
My electric car: it’s a hybrid Cadillac.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 November 2020 source ↗

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When I had a bicycle accident when I was 24. I was on a bridge going down; the bicycle broke and I smashed to the ground, face first. I broke my jaw and my teeth, and had to have plastic surgery. It all took half a year and then, funnily enough, I got my first big job – a TV series – with what I thought of then as this big, ugly scar.
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