Kevin Pietersen
English cricketer
Nappies aren’t fun!
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.
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Cleaning toilets in a motorway service station.
Giving barium enemas. I used to be a radiographer in Coventry.
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To my parents, for being such a bitch.
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.
Boarding school. It was horrible.
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