James Bay
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Less pizza – living on tour is not conducive to eating healthily.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
An extra day in the week when no one can contact you.
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Heidi Klum
German-American model and TV host
An eighth day in the week – just for me, no one else.
If there could be a double of me to look after my child when I’m working.
If people would just follow my rules about how they get around the city.
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I really hope there is a big pearly gate.
Patience is not my forte.
Bad personal hygiene.
Fun, fab and fearless.
Racial and homophobic slurs – the F- and N-words. When I moved to London, people screamed the F-word from their cars, and that stings.
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