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Liverpool losing the FA Cup final to Wimbledon when I was a kid. It made me cry.
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That I go to the gym a couple of times a week, yet I am unfit and overweight.
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In the last couple of years, Britain.
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My wife, Hannah. She’s amazing and keeps me in check. I met her 24 years ago at drama school.
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