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When I was a kid, travelling from Ethiopia to the UK, the plane door opened, the oxygen masks came down and the plane did an emergency landing in Egypt.
I’ve been to two postmortems in real life, and spent the last 14 years talking about death at work – so, pretty close.
I went on a private jet with David Hasselhoff, and it was so turbulent between LA and Vegas I thought it was going down. I also thought: “The headline won’t be about me; it will be: David Hasselhoff and friend.”
How many times I could have died before now, and in how many different ways. And yet I came close only once: a speeding sedan ran a red light, hit three other vehicles, and jack-knifed into my rear wheel split second after I’d stepped out of my parked car. A bystander described the scene to me later. “You were a millimetre away from losing your legs,” he said.
Jump Around by House Of Pain, and Pull Up To The Bumper by Grace Jones: stuff people could dance to.
How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.
I bought all my siblings signet rings and pendants with my family crest on. There are a lot of us.
Anybody who invests the lion’s share of their time in helping others.
As someone who tried to keep learning, and wanted to help.
Having children: it’s what I’m most looking forward to.
Rosanna Arquette, Paul O'Grady, Helen George, Paapa Essiedu, Meera Syal, Adeel Akhtar
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