My beautiful silver Jaguar XKR soft-top.
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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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A poster for The Godfather, my favourite film, signed by Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and everyone. I got drunk at a children’s charity auction and started buying everything!
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A snazzy coffee machine that grinds beans and steams milk.
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A tractor, 12 years ago. Bright yellow and still brilliant.
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It’s another bloody Prince song, I’m so sorry – Mountains. I love how the chord structure ascends and the vocals – “It’s only mountains and the sea / There’s nothing greater than you and me” – feel like an ascension. I’d like to think, when I shuffle off this mortal coil, I’m going to be ascending as opposed to descending. I think I’ve been a good girl.
On a flight to Newcastle, when we had terrible storms. The plane dropped quickly and the oxygen masks fell down. We had to land in Manchester.
Having a career that’s 29 years in.
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