Anne Robinson
English television presenter and journalist
That I don't have thin ankles.
What has been your biggest disappointment?
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That my children never met my parents. They were both dead by the time I became a mamma.
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That I wasn't able to stay on The West Wing longer.
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Not having four children.
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