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I don’t really flash money about.
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View all 196 →A pair of Back to the Future shoes. They were auctioned off for Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s charity, so I bid and I won. I am a huge fan of the films and if there was ever a pair of shoes I should own, it was those.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 November 2025 source ↗
My hybrid car. Not glamorous, not fast, but indispensable.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗
A Tesla for my former husband. He didn’t deserve it.
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View profile →A car crash in the Utah mountains in 2005. We were driving from Arizona to Salt Lake City to go to a basketball game and the car slipped on black ice and we skidded off the motorway, flipped over and rolled down a ravine. The police officer said it was the worst accident he’d seen in 18 years when nobody died.
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Like hugging your children first thing in the morning and kissing them goodnight.
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Cleaning the changing rooms at Kensington leisure centre from the age of 16.
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