A dress designer.
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A stuntman. Evel Knievel was an icon.
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I haven’t grown up.
Sounds cliched, but I always wanted to be an actor.
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Teachers at my school, for being such a smartarse.
Foxes making love: it’s a very unsettling sound.
I won a local art competition aged 10 – the first time I’d won anything.
Last year, driving in California, I found myself on the wrong side of the road. I was 30 seconds away from hitting two cars coming the other way.
The floral waistcoat and shocking-pink shirt combo I wore on my 21st.
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