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I bought a Mercedes convertible brand new in 2016 and I’ve only done 4,000 miles. I love cars – if I’m going to blow it, it’ll be on a sports car. I already have my eyes on the next one – I’ll get Simon Cowell to buy it.
A television. I don’t care for things. When I moved, I downsized and threw away most of my possessions.
A beautiful, sequined dress for a showbiz function. It was pushing £1,850.
I love clothes and accoutrements, so it would be either a suit or a watch. I love Mark Powell in Soho, and Paul Smith.
Every time I let my wife drive.
When I was 17, I worked in a warehouse in Rotherham doing an audit of truck parts. I counted nuts and bolts all day long.
Another One Bites The Dust.
A couple of days ago, saying goodbye to my children.
On a caravan site on a farm in the Brecon Beacons when I was a kid. I have three sisters and every year we met family friends with kids the same age. We would go to the river and make rope swings and build dens. It was very Enid Blyton.
Every job I don’t get.
Katherine Parkinson, Kiefer Sutherland, Guy Pearce, John Waters, Patricia Hodge, Charlotte Church
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