Louis Smith
English artistic gymnast
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, by Roberta Flack.
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The cancan. It’s celebratory and it would demonstrate the ridiculousness of this life.
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Kathleen Turner
American actress
One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
Emilia Fox
English actress and presenter
I would like the poem Cherish by Raymond Carver. It was read by my dad at my wedding, and is my absolute favourite.
Engelbert Humperdinck
British singer
I don’t like to think about that.
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