Jason Manford
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That I go to the gym a couple of times a week, yet I am unfit and overweight.
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Not getting into MI5.
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Relief. (Not like that.)
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A Chanel dress. I bought it with my first proper paycheck and it was ridiculously expensive. It is also hideous.
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