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Nine years ago I discovered I had stage 3/4 uterine cancer and went through nine months of excruciating surgery, illness and chemotherapy. In that time, I touched death and it was the most powerful transformation of my life. I was forced to learn to take care of my body.
I’ve been to two postmortems in real life, and spent the last 14 years talking about death at work – so, pretty close.
In the early 90s, in the Andes, caught in an atrocious storm above 20,000ft with three others. We were all in a very bad way. Some guys close to us perished; we were lucky.
Coming under attack while reporting in Iraq.
I often cry when people do things well, like on Britain’s Got Talent; I cried at the old ladies doing finger knitting.
A kitchen porter at some big telecom office in Wimbledon. I was also a kitchen porter at L’Escargot and, while I was there, a model for Gilbert and George. It was a quick £15 and they were terribly nice.
On childhood family holidays in Mallorca, with my mum, dad and sister, Amanda.
A bespoke wagonette I had made in Germany; I drive a pair of Clydesdale horses called Ronnie and Bruce.What do you most dislike about your appearance? The lot.
Adam Clayton, Adam Peaty, Adeel Akhtar, Adrian Edmondson, Aidan Gillen, Alex Lawther
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