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A beautiful, sequined dress for a showbiz function. It was pushing £1,850.
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Shappi Khorsandi
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A walk-on part for my mum in Les Misérables. It was in a charity auction. She always dreamed of being in a West End show.
A pair of Back to the Future shoes. They were auctioned off for Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s charity, so I bid and I won. I am a huge fan of the films and if there was ever a pair of shoes I should own, it was those.
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The most extravagant thing was a bottle of 1904 armagnac for $1,000. I spent $10,000 on a Martin guitar in the 90s. I also spent $100,000 on a Fairlight keyboard and I ended up giving it away. Oh well.
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Our family song – Three Is A Magic Number, which my husband played me on the way back from the maternity hospital.
To my grandma Faye, because I didn’t realise, when I was growing up, what an icon she was. She fought at Cable Street, and worked her arse off to get the family out of the tenements. She had a lot of wisdom to impart.
I am a living self-help book – I’ve managed to train myself to never regret anything.
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