Jodie Whittaker
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Getting my tongue pierced aged 15, when I had train-track braces on both my top and bottom teeth. Huge error.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’d have been there on the spot for every major news story I’ve talked about in the studio, at the time it happened.
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I wouldn’t live so long in France. After eight years, I came back to London.
A few haircuts.
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Every offended interviewee who thought I was asking hard questions for some personal reason. It’s never personal.
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