Jimmy Savile
English media personality and sex offender
Never having been a 100% sex symbol. I only managed 99.9%.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Never getting the lead in the musical at school.
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My little sister Grace. In all the ways in which I am not capable or grounded or calm, she is.
A couple of ex-boyfriends.
Perhaps a few drunken incidents – but I’ll keep the coat.
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