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I’ve been in six car accidents – none of them while I was driving.
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At 20, I fell from a fourth-floor window and broke my back. For four days they said I’d never walk again, but I had a miraculous recovery.
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Paul Heaton
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Again, too many times to mention, but probably being swung from the balcony at the top of the Columbia hotel in London by the bodyguard of a Saudi Arabian princess was fairly close.
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I can dodge the bullets – I’m lucky.
Marc Almond
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The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.
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I lost my poodle, Mighty. He was out of my sight for just seven minutes; he went out on an adventure and didn’t come back, and was taken by a coyote, I think. It was awful, really painful; he taught me about love and loyalty, and how the connection between living beings can be.
An actor or stuntman: I loved Lee Majors in The Fall Guy.
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