I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My education. Benedictine monks didn’t really prepare me for the life I have lived.
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I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
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My sister’s death – I would love to meet her kids. [Karen Grammer was 18 when she was abducted, raped and murdered.]
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View profile →I’ve made some terrible remarks about people over the years in the interests of light entertainment, and I regret them all.
Dame Joan Collins. She insists on being happy whatever is going on and, despite being a Tory, is a very caring person.
My cold indifference towards discarded friends.
Running out of Molecule cologne.
A gig in Chatham.
Sydney mardi gras, 1993.
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