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A walk-on part for my mum in Les Misérables. It was in a charity auction. She always dreamed of being in a West End show.
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A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
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I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.
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Paintings and guitars. I have Picasso prints and one Rembrandt etching.
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A wedding, in 2012.
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