Joanna Scanlan
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Never getting back to a size 12.
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That my mum and dad didn’t move to live by the sea, where we live, before they died.
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People close to me throwing me under a bus for a crust.
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A car accident in Italy in 1990. Four people got killed. I was lucky, I got thrown out.
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I was probably too cheeky to chairmen over the years.
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To any of the players I may have fallen out with during my time in management.
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It used to be worrying about football results.
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