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When I had a bicycle accident when I was 24. I was on a bridge going down; the bicycle broke and I smashed to the ground, face first. I broke my jaw and my teeth, and had to have plastic surgery. It all took half a year and then, funnily enough, I got my first big job – a TV series – with what I thought of then as this big, ugly scar.
Being offered a lift by James Acaster.
Being charged by a white rhino on a walking safari. It came running towards us and I froze, which is the right thing to do. If it had hit us, it would have been goodnight.
I’ve been in six car accidents – none of them while I was driving.
All the things I ought to have done.
An electric car.
People are often traumatised by the sleeplessness in the first years of their children’s lives, but I was insanely happy to be married and have two children. The only dark cloud was how much we were loathed for having babies who slept through the night.
In rehearsals. The play is very funny about mothers and daughters, but one of the gags hit a raw nerve.
My mother says I had a plan to be a farmer’s wife and a violinist, going to concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in my tractor.
Mathew Horne, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Julian Clary, Martin Sheen, Andy Serkis, Michael Flatley
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