Dominic Cooper
English actor
To Ms Dooley, for failing my maths GCSE several times over.
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Angela Griffin
British actress and television presenter
Lee Warburton. He had just left drama school and was doing the Alexander technique in the Corrie green room. I hadn’t been to drama school, and really took the piss out of him.
Neil Gaiman
Author of fiction, comics and screenplays
My soon-to-be ex-wife, Amanda. I wish I’d been able to do whatever would have been necessary all the way back to keep us as a unit. Probably the worst thing I did was not tell her how miserable I was, certain that I could turn this around somehow.
Terence Conran
British restaurateur and designer
My ex-wife Caroline, because she found my style of life rather irritating.
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He gave people laughter.
When I was under contract to Universal Pictures in 1959, just before I got my role on Riverboat.
The psalm would be the 23rd. I’ll have to think about the song.
I wouldn’t have done the naked centrefold in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1972.
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