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When I initially made money with the Corrs, I bought a Jaguar XK8.
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Jenny Agutter
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A £400 Zandra Rhodes dress for the royal premiere of The Railway Children. More recently, a Wurlitzer jukebox for my husband’s birthday.
Francesca Martinez
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I don’t own a property. The carpet in our flat; it’s not fancy or anything.
Every time I got a lucrative voiceover, I bought a picture. The most expensive was by James Gillray.
Beverley Knight
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I am a shoe and bag freak. I shelled out for a Chanel handbag on eBay and it was still four figures!
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I can’t disclose that because it’s not suitable for public airing, but it was truly awful; they’ve since said worse.
Not fulfilling my potential.
I worked in my aunt’s bar in Dundalk for about eight years and I remember cleaning the whole bar, including the bathrooms, after a particularly rough St Patrick’s Day.
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