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Shakin' Stevens
Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter
I never dwell on them.
Angela Eagle
British politician
Being phoned by the prime minister and sacked from my role as a home office minister in front of 100 people I was about to speak to. But to be fair to Tony, he did appoint me in the first place.
Jason Manford
English comedian and singer
That I go to the gym a couple of times a week, yet I am unfit and overweight.
For my dad not to have known our boys.
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An astronaut. I still do.
I wish I hadn’t been a heavy smoker for so many years.
Relief. (Not like that.)
A Chanel dress. I bought it with my first proper paycheck and it was ridiculously expensive. It is also hideous.
I went to a state school, so had to learn ancient Greek from scratch at Oxford.
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