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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Harry Redknapp
English football player and manager
When I met [my wife] Sandra. I was coming up 17. We met at the Two Puddings, a dance hall in Stratford.
On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life.
It happens all the time, but childhood holidays on the North Norfolk coast were a kind of bliss.
Alan Dale
New Zealand actor
I have never been happier than I am now. As for when I was happiest in my work, playing King Arthur in Spamalot in the West End.
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