The main courses are never as tasty as starters. But enough about my sex life.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Not having my own chatshow. Yet!
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Kevin Pietersen
English cricketer
The way I left English cricket. I was scapegoated for the Ashes tour in 2013-14 and there was a bitter battle between the England Cricket Board and me for a few years.
Not to have been joined by more Green MPs … yet.
Anna Friel
English actress
Getting down to the last two of certain jobs (Gangs Of New York and Fight Club) and being thwarted at the last second.
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When I was a kid I was a chambermaid in my family’s hotel, and I once found a strap-on that someone had left behind.
A pair of Balenciaga boots. They were extortionate, but that has to be at least 10 years ago and I still wear them.
Something that you can’t describe or put in a box. It changes daily and surprises you when you least expect.
As a nice person who always put others before myself. I’d also like my own posthumous tartan.
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