Kathy Lette
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Bumping into my male boss at a nudist beach.
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The Radio 1 breakfast show was an embarrassing moment that lasted for nine months.
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Liev Schreiber
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When I was 19 I worked at a gay bar while I was at drama school in London. One of the guys I worked with was Glaswegian and I learned the dialect from him. The acting teacher at the school said, “Liev, you’ve got the region but you’ve missed the character entirely” because I played Jimmy Boyle in a very camp Glaswegian accent.
Leaving the stage from a panic attack in my 20s. Hearing the audience angry.
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Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
A nice long rest.
As someone who made people laugh, introduced them to good music and wasn’t too much of a pain in the arse.
A drummer in a famous band or an astronaut.
Nothing. I survived a cancer scare at 60, so I am just overjoyed to be here.
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