Louis Theroux
British and American journalist and author
To have made a career in TV while being nervous by nature and incapable of doing a piece to camera.
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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What is the worst job you have done?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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My relationship.
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Gavin Rossdale
British musician
The fact that I am still making music.
Donny Osmond
American singer, dancer, actor, television host
Eight grandchildren, five sons and my one wife.
Siri Hustvedt
American novelist, essayist, poet
The Blazing World.
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I don’t own a property. The carpet in our flat; it’s not fancy or anything.
A never-ending hug.
My all-girls’ high school. I hated it. Large groups of teenage girls aren’t known for their empathy and kindness. It was a shock to realise that people viewed me as uncool because of the way my body worked.
I’ve liked all my jobs, amazingly.
As the woman who never died.
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