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Rolf Harris – he let us all down.
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What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Judy Murray
Scottish tennis coach
That Scottish tennis has failed to capitalise on the successes of Jamie and Andy.
Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London since 2016
Labour losing the 2015 election: we weren’t able to help the people who needed us most.
Nicola Adams
British boxer
Losing in the 2012 world championships final.
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View profile →The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.
To my first real boyfriend, for being so mean to him. But really I was just being mean to myself.
A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
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.
In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
Yesterday: I went to see the film God’s Own Country.
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