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“I don’t love you.”
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View all 366 →My A-level results in 1998. I flunked my history A-level and lost my place at Cambridge. It broke my heart for years; now I’m really glad, because I pull out the whole “I went to a polytechnic” thing. But at the time for a teenager who was rather pleased with herself, it was absolutely devastating.
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America – there are too many Americans.
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View profile →When I am in Italy with the family, not thinking about work.
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.
It’s hard to beat David Attenborough. Everything he does is quality. I like people who make me proud to be British.
I love clothes and accoutrements, so it would be either a suit or a watch. I love Mark Powell in Soho, and Paul Smith.
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.
I say it a lot to my kids when I’ve lost my temper, and I’ll save up a big one for when they are 18.
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