Jack Whitehall
English comedian, actor, presenter and writer
Mainly my devil dog.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
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The climate catastrophe.
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Lionel Shriver
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My own bad prose.
Reece Shearsmith
British actor, comedian and writer
Sometimes the overwhelming realisation that I will one day die; but mostly that ShortList man from the tube throwing stones at my window.
Ray Mears
British woodsman and TV presenter
The sound of nightingales, but it is the most lovely sound. If someone said it was an elf playing a flute, I would believe them.
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View profile →Walking in the rainforest with my mother, back in Nicaragua. She loved it, and inspired me to devote much of my life to protecting the environment.
I sometimes wish I had had the courage to be a politician – but I made the decision to be a human rights defender instead. I realised I cannot be both at the same time, because they may be incompatible.
More sleep, less stress.
I was brought up Catholic, to believe that marriage is for life. And we failed.
To my daughter, because she felt that I spent too much time saving other children. I would go to war zones and travel the world for human rights work, and she was missing me.
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