Michael Kiwanuka
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A 1962 Fender Stratocaster guitar I bought in 2014 for £10,000.
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I love clothes and accoutrements, so it would be either a suit or a watch. I love Mark Powell in Soho, and Paul Smith.
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Laura Kenny
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A Rolex, after London 2012.
Tim Rice
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A painting by Tamara de Lempicka.
Alison Steadman
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I once bought the most expensive moisturiser in the shop and it brought me out in spots. Lesson learned.
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“I don’t love you.”
When I am in Italy with the family, not thinking about work.
I wanted to be a footballer and then a squash player – I was in with a chance because I was very good. But I fell out of love with that by 14 or 15 and joined a youth theatre.
The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.
Thinking about all the worst possible things: losing people, dying, how am I going to die? All that sort of stuff. I stay awake thinking about furniture and shoes as well. It’s not all death.
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