Ian Wright
English footballer and pundit
Not playing in the World Cup.
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Receiving a letter saying I didn’t get into drama school. I felt like Billy Elliot. It was a crushing moment.
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When I was a 26-year-old news correspondent, the head of BBC news gathering, Chris Cramer, refused to let me take up a six-month attachment on the foreign affairs programme Correspondent. He said: “I think it’s too soon; you could do it later.” He’d never have said that to a man.
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There was a moment in my early 20s when I’d finished Emmerdale and didn’t know what was next. I drove from LA to San Francisco listening to Tracy Chapman and it felt like one of those pure moments of uncomplicated joy.
After Emmerdale, babysitting. I freaked out – I couldn’t believe people put me in charge of their children.
Whole, full, lifted.
A Matisse and my Leica camera.
The ability to switch off.
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