Angela Hartnett
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Anything and everything. I watched the Olympics and wanted to be an 800m runner. If I watched Inspector Morse, I wanted to be a pathologist.
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An actor or a nun.
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Gareth Bale
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I just wanted to fulfil my potential.
Tracy-Ann Oberman
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An actress. My family thought it was ridiculous, it was like saying you wanted to be an astronaut.
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At the BBC, in the old days, a piece of paper was sent to various households for them to report on what they’d watched that week. In my early 20s, I collated the data. It was deeply boring.
Swimming down the Thames on a full moon night 10 years ago. It was dangerous, but extremely joyful.
The plastics episode of Blue Planet.
Never getting back to a size 12.
To my Latin teacher – I was very naughty.
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