Simon Mayo
English radio presenter and author
I was the subject of a Celeb cartoon in Private Eye. I’ve a copy hanging in the downstairs toilet.
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What is the worst job you have done?
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When were you happiest?
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How close have you come to death?
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What keeps you awake at night?
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Becoming an actor at all, considering my background.
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Nish Kumar
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I learned how to play The Wind Cries Mary guitar solo.
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I am a pretty good dog mum.
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Managing to find my wife and trapping her into marrying me.
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View profile →I'd have concentrated a bit more at school and maybe gone to university rather than drama school.
My wedding. It was at Skibo Castle long before Madonna or any of those people went there.
The worst was as a butcher, aged 17.
The birth of my first child, July 4 2002.
I was on a plane in India and I thought it was going to crash. It was an old, rickety thing. It was pre-children - I wouldn't do it now.
All this nonsense in the Middle East. It's hard not to think about it.
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