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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Somebody once told me I was the spitting image of David Cameron.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
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View all 122 →There’s a tweet somewhere saying, “If you like Africa so much, why don’t you go back there.” It was because I dedicated one of my dances to my three mothers – Mother Africa, Mother Nature and my mother.
“What is Seann Walsh and how do we make it die?” It was online, thankfully. It wasn’t in Sainsbury’s.
Cybill Shepherd
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A review that said I had the charm of a hamster.
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View profile →Like getting out of the right side of the bed every morning, even when you don’t.
As a good friend.
Just. Hanging. On.
My interest in Los Angeles.
The internet. Such potential for good and for levelling up the world, but such a quagmire in reality.
My first holy communion, where my trousers were too big for me and fell down, a circumstance which earned me both the instant contempt of the girls and the heightened interest of the priests. That’s just how it was in 1975.
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