Robbie Williams
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My wife. As someone who is forever bored, I’m never bored with or of her.
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Teachers who recognise that each child is different.
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Right now. Ask me again when my children are grown, and I’ll sob, “When they loved me more than that woman/man they’ve shacked up with.”
I’m convinced heartache almost killed me a few years ago.
A walk-on part for my mum in Les Misérables. It was in a charity auction. She always dreamed of being in a West End show.
Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed. I had a hangover, and it was all a bit much.
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