Reggie Yates
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How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
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I would try to be a little nicer to my teachers.
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I’d stop my teenage self worrying about how my life was going to pan out.
George Michael
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I should have sung with David Gilmour at Carnegie Hall because I'm a massive fan of Pink Floyd.
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View profile →My buddy Kenny Laguna. He’s a person of extraordinary character, he’s intelligent, and a very good friend.
Right after 9/11, Kenny and I went to perform for the troops in Pakistan and Uzbekistan. As we were flying in, an electronic voice went off: “Warning: missile launch! Warning: missile launch!” The Taliban had fired a rocket at us. I was waiting to see the back of the plane blow up, but it didn’t and we landed.
My teenage years in the Runaways: I was still naive enough to think good things about the world and life and people, and I was having fun playing rock’n’roll around the world, living the dream.
Amazing Grace, on bagpipes.
That my baseball team, Baltimore Orioles, is always in the basement.
I had a cafeteria job, serving food, and some people were really nasty. There was a stack of nice, cool plates, and a stack of hotter plates that had just come out of the kitchen. So, if a person was an arsehole, I’d hand them a hot plate with a smile and watch them deal with it.
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