Bernadine Evaristo
English author and academic
I cried after I won the Booker.
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When Adèle walked down the road at the end of the film Blue Is The Warmest Colour.
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Lleyton Hewitt
Australian professional tennis player
My kids wrote a song for me, recorded it on to a CD and it was played before my last Australian Open. I had no idea until I heard it live on TV.
Michael Ball
English singer, presenter and actor
Watching Long Lost Family on telly.
Julie Delpy
French actress and filmmaker
I cried a few days ago because I couldn't face moving my stuff out of my house because of termites. I cried out of exhaustion from trying to make it so they wouldn't get termite gas on everything, especially my kid's stuff. I cried at the end of the day.
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During my Queensland childhood, on the days when I avoided the chlorine-infused shower gauntlet and being corralled into the deep end of the school pool.
My own snoring.
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