I couldn’t do it. I realised recently that all the things that have gone wrong are just as important as all the things that went right.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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On BBC Breakfast, I accidentally said “fuck” on air. My microphone had been turned on when I wasn’t in the room. It went out across the telly and they had to apologise.
When I was working hard, I was going so fast that I didn’t absorb a lot.
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Picking my nose.
Several: cutting the local vicar's lawn, shovelling shit from a stable, waiting tables, picking up and washing actors' smelly pants and socks.
To fail better next time.
A single-malt whisky.
Growing up in the 70s, in the country in England and Ireland.
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