Being the father of three children.
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Preferably not as the guy who played Gollum.
When my wife Lorraine and I got together in 1990. We were in a play at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester when we suddenly realised we were falling in love.
Putting ball bearings into Mum roll-on deodorant bottles in a factory, one summer when I was 17.
To see a united Labour party.
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