The floral waistcoat and shocking-pink shirt combo I wore on my 21st.
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Simone Biles
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Nothing. Everything has led me to who and where I am now.
Carlos Acosta
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The time I told my father I hated him, causing him a lot of pain. He passed away six years ago, and my mother eight years ago.
David Hasselhoff
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My drinking habits.
Harry Redknapp
English football player and manager
I was probably too cheeky to chairmen over the years.
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Teachers at my school, for being such a smartarse.
Foxes making love: it’s a very unsettling sound.
I won a local art competition aged 10 – the first time I’d won anything.
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