Gregg Wallace
English broadcaster and writer
A sailor. I wanted to be in the Royal Navy like my grandad.
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Huckleberry Finn.
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Mary McCartney
English photographer and cookbook author
A nurse, because my grandmother was a midwife. I was named after her but never got to meet her.
Sounds cliched, but I always wanted to be an actor.
Alan Dale
New Zealand actor
As a kid I used to fantasize about being Clayton Moore, the masked hero in The Lone Ranger. I’m much too old to play him now – I’d have to be the baddie who he kills – although I do have a horse as King Arthur, well someone clopping along behind me with a pair of coconuts.
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With tenderness.
Listening to Iris DeMent singing Our Town, because of her voice and the truth of what she is singing about, which is that small towns and communities are dying all over.
Fixing a municipal sewer pipe.
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