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Yesterday: I went to see the film God’s Own Country.
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Simone Biles
United States artistic gymnast
Just a few days ago. I was overtired.
Alison Moyet
English singer
When I heard John Noakes had died.
David Gandy
British model
Yesterday: my daughter accidentally hit me in the balls.
Bryan Cranston
American actor
When I think of my mother. After my father left, she became an alcoholic and wallowed in resentment.
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View profile →To my first real boyfriend, for being so mean to him. But really I was just being mean to myself.
Rolf Harris – he let us all down.
In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.
In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
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