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Merging my company with BHS – it was a great mistake.
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Marc Almond
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Rolf Harris – he let us all down.
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After I got arrested, my dad, a lawyer, took me to a QC to try to build a case against the FBI. The dejection on his face when it became obvious that we couldn’t was disappointing.
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