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The prized possession you value above all others… The basement kitchen at ‘I’m a compulsive room my home in north . I designed it when my husband Dan [Australian painter. I can decide to actor ] and I gutted the change a colour at 9pm and house in 2006. It’s where I’m happiest. The unqualified regret you wish you start rollering right away’ could amend… Not spending more on my wedding in 2001! My dad, Bev, The unending quest that drives you always said he’d pay for a big wedding, on… To bake, to eat, to share. but when it came to it I was really fru- The poem that touches your soul… gal and it came in at £10,000. I could She Is Gone by David Harkins. It tells easily have nailed Dad for £100,000. you that you can smile and live on by The way you would spend your fantasy remembering the people you lose. 24 hours, with no travel restrictions… The misapprehension about yourself I’d have a bagel with salt beef for break- you wish you could erase… That I’m a fast with Dan outside Tiffany on 5th Northerner! Everyone always expects Avenue in New York, where we got me to speak in a Mancunian accent engaged. Then we’d fly with the kids – because of Jenny from , but Parker, ten, and Sonny, six – to Bal- I was brought up in . moral beach in Sydney. We’d have The event that altered the course of grilled fish for lunch at the Bathers’ your life and character… Getting the Pavilion restaurant there and then head job on Cold Feet in 1996. Until then my to the South of France where my first TV career had been limited to playing stop would be at a supermarket. They’re unnamed prostitutes. incredible – each one is like Harrods The crime you would commit knowing Food Hall. We’d have an early supper you could get away with it… I’d stay at at Club 55 in St Tropez with a huge the finest hotels and never pay . plate of frites and a bottle of Côtes de The song that means most to you… Provence rosé wine. We’d end the day One Big Family by Templecloud. I put at Babington House hotel in Somerset. it on loudly while I’m cooking and The temptation you wish you could insist the kids dance with me. resist… Handbags. I buy five to ten a The happiest moment you will cherish year and currently have about 50. I’m forever… Beating Gordon Ramsay in a particularly into Angel Jackson bags. DEFINITE blind tasting of our chocolate brownies The book that holds an everlasting in the F Word TV show in 2009. resonance… Delia Smith’s Complete The saddest time that shook your Illustrated Cookery Course. It was giv- world… Suffering two miscarriages at en to me in my 20s and I still use it. three months in between my two chil- The priority activity if you were the dren. It was a really nasty shock. Invisible Woman for a day… I’d be a ARTICLE The unfulfilled ambition that contin- fly on the wall at my kids’ school. We ask a celebrity a set of devilishly ues to haunt you… To run a food busi- The pet hate that makes your hackles ness like a restaurant or a shop. rise... Drivers not obeying the ‘two probing questions – and only accept The philosophy that underpins your

chevrons spacing’ rule on motorways. life… Give a damn about someone else P HOTO I feel like I’m the only person in the THE definitive answer. This week: and they will give a damn about you. G country who bothers. The order of service at your funeral… C RAPHS: The film you can watch time and time actress and food author Fay Ripley I want to be cremated on a bonfire in E

again… American Graffiti from 1973, the country with a service that makes L E From top: A salt which is a classic coming-of-age mov- The figure from history for whom you’d The unlikely interest that engages everybody cry. I want some Samuel PICTUR BRITY beef bagel, ie about a group of teenagers in 1960s most like to buy a pie and a pint… Prince your curiosity… I’m a compulsive room Barber classical music, but then Get Babington America. I watched it as an incredibly Albert. He did so much for our country painter. I can decide to change a colour Happy by Judy Garland. There will be

House, an Angel E uncool 13-year-old and fell in love in terms of its buildings, parks and at 9pm and start rollering right away. a huge cake with a figure of me on top, PICTUR CAPITAL S, Jackson bag, with one of the stars, Paul Le Mat. culture. He was only 42 when he died. and a goodie bag for everyone. Delia’s Complete The treasured item you lost and wish Illustrated The person who has influenced you I’d like to know what his ambitions you could have again… A jewellery The way you want to be remembered… Cookery Course, most… My late grandmother, Ivy would have been if he’d lived longer. box containing all the gifts for my For my Bakewell tart!

Bathers’ Pavilion Winepress Forster. My parents divorced The piece of wisdom you would pass christening, including gold sovereign The Plug… Fay is the ambassador for E S, CORBIS, ALA CORBIS, S, in Sydney, a Côtes when I was two and I was brought up in on to a child… Be a citizen of the world coins, a watch and a gold bracelet. Bacon Connoisseurs Week, starting de Provence rosé, American Graffiti two families. My grandmother was a and care as much for a neighbour who When I was 18 and moving into my Monday, celebrating great Red Tractor and Prince Albert bridge between both worlds – and she lives 1,000 miles away as one who first flat I left the door open and some- Bacon. Visit www.lovepork.co.uk. O M

made amazing pastry. lives down the street. one nipped in and stole it. As told to Rob McGibbon Y NEXT WEEK PS... M Why The Great British Sewing Nicholas Hoult updates an old fairy tale in Jack The Giant Bee is about to do for needlework M Slayer – in cinemas from Friday. Henry Goodman opens in The what Bake Off did for baking Jamie Oliver’s luscious ways with Winslow Boy at London’s Old Vic. And a deluxe edition of the spring lamb M Monty Don’s expert guide to lawns M Les Misérables soundtrack, with 22 extra tracks, is out Monday Britain’s best TV listings

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