Edwina Currie
Former British politician, broadcaster and writer
I would be richer, I’d have beaten Mrs Thatcher’s ban on women in the cabinet, and I would be a dame.
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It would have been lovely to have grown up in private like a lot of my friends.
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Mark Gatiss
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I was a very lazy child, but I think I’ve made up for it by being a workaholic. I might push some of the work back to my childhood.
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The bits that consumed me with guilt.
Jeremy Vine
English presenter and journalist
I’d stop my teenage self worrying about how my life was going to pan out.
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A caravan. I was brought up going on caravan holidays – but we quickly realised that a double-axle caravan was too much of a commitment and sold it.
I’d rather be enjoyed while I am still here.
My biggest disappointment is always myself. That’s my Catholic upbringing.
There are different flavours of happy, but I think my favourite is the quiet contentment when several generations of family are sitting together watching a crowd-pleaser like Harry Potter on the telly.
The Strictly Come Dancing final almost destroyed me. I was howling all the way through – John and Johannes and then Rose and Giovanni. Oh my God.
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