Bradley Wiggins
British former professional road and track racing cyclist
Never going back to the Tour de France and trying to win again.
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When I was 14 I went up for Juliet with Zeffirelli and I was hugely disappointed that I didn’t get that.
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Edwina Currie
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Not becoming chancellor.
My wife and I were meant to meet Frank Sinatra before he went on stage in Hamburg. But there was a taxi-drivers’ strike and we were too late.
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Not being truthful to everyone from an earlier age.
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A £400 Zandra Rhodes dress for the royal premiere of The Railway Children. More recently, a Wurlitzer jukebox for my husband’s birthday.
Finding a cure for cystic fibrosis – it would change the life of my niece.
Very warm and slightly giddying
Last night, having dinner with my husband, John, my son, Jonathan, and his girlfriend, Maude.
Work-wise, joining the National Theatre when I was 21.
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