Angela Hartnett
English chef
Anything and everything. I watched the Olympics and wanted to be an 800m runner. If I watched Inspector Morse, I wanted to be a pathologist.
What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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A travel agent, so I could see the world.
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Robert Peston
British journalist
Prime minister and brain surgeon.
A comedian or the guy who drives the little truck around airports that takes old ladies to their gate.
My brother Joe, he’s nine years older than me.
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View profile →Having a career that’s lasted 47 years, especially when I felt like an impostor for so many of them.
I wouldn’t take back the drugs, but there are a few boyfriends that I’d edit out of my life.
On stage in Tasmania, I tripped over a floor monitor and landed on my back like a turtle, kicking my legs in the air trying to get back on my feet in front of about 5,000 people. But when I got on my feet, the whole crowd roared in triumph.
I’ve been doing pilates for 25 years and I swear by it. I decided to kit out a room with pilates equipment – and I think it’s the most expensive thing I’ve invested in.
“You sing like a goat.” When I did my French album [Voila], this French woman – a supposed friend – said to my face: “It’s fantastic but, how come you sound like a chèvre?” It was like someone had hit me in the stomach.
To stay in the moment and live each day to the maximum. You never know when it’s going to be taken away.
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