‘I love darts – the skill, the showmanship and how honest it is, especially the way the crowd behaves’ definite After that we’d go to my dream concert at Madison Square Garden, where Tom Petty, Michael Bublé and Kings Of Leon would be on . The night would end at our home near Hampton Court – nothing beats my own bed! article The happiest moment you will cherish We ask a celebrity a set of devilishly forever… Holding Rafferty for the first time was the most magical feeling. It probing questions – and only accept felt like an out-of-body experience. THE definitive answer. This week it’s The saddest time that shook your world… When my Uncle Chrissy died singer and actress Martine McCutcheon from an accidental overdose aged 17. I was only five, but we had an amazing The prized possession you value above The pet hate that makes your hackles bond. He used to sing It Must Be Love all others… My rose gold wedding rise… Traffic wardens waiting for the by Madness to me. I have those words ring. My husband Jack, who’s a singer, parking meter to go one minute tattooed on my arm in his memory. and I got married in Italy in 2012 and over time drive me mad. The unfulfilled ambition that contin- our rings are engraved with our names The film you can watch time ues to haunt you… To sell out the O2 and the word Evergreen, which stands and time again… When Har- Arena and perform my own songs – for eternal and ever flourishing. ry Met Sally is so bril- but I’m not sure it’s going to happen! The biggest regret you wish you could liantly written that I The song that means The priority activity if you were the amend… I wish I’d gone back to music see different things most to you… The Hun- Invisible Woman for a day… I’d walk The philosophy that underpins your sooner. I had a 15-year break because every time I watch it. gry Years by Neil with elephants, then sleep among a life… Nothing is impossible, as long as Sedaka cap- you’re prepared to work for it. Now I’ve of acting work, but music’s part of my The figure from history for pride of lions. To be with wildlife at its tures my jour- said that, maybe the O2 can happen soul. Recording my new album has whom you’d most like to buy a most natural would be unbelievable. ney perfectly. I made me feel I’m myself again. pie and a pint… Anne Boleyn The way you would spend your fantasy The order of service at your funeral… I used to sing it to The book that holds an everlasting intrigues me. I’d really like to know 24 hours, with no travel restrictions… want it in a church near our home, with my mum Jenny when I was little resonance… Silk by Alessandro Bar- if she had six fingers on one hand. I’d have breakfast with Jack and Raf- everyone dressed in black and white. and tell her that I’d be a star one day. I’d like Evergreen by Barbra Streisand icco is so intense. It opened my eyes to The piece of wisdom you would pass ferty at The Wolseley in . I’d The treasured item you lost and wish and Somewhere Over The Rainbow. different kinds of love. on to a child… You can create your have a pain au chocolat with a black you could have again… My photo- The temptation own happiness and the life you decaf coffee. We’d then be whisked off The way you want to be remembered… graphic memory. I used to read a script you wish you want. It’s all within you. to Lake Como where Jack and I got As a great mother and wife. a couple of times and know it. I’m 41 married. We’d sunbathe, swim and go could resist… Martine McCutcheon’s The person who has influenced now and have to work harder at it. out on a boat listening to old Rat Pack The Plug… Toblerone. If I album Lost And Found is out now. For you most… Barbra Streisand. I’ve songs. Lunch would be beside the lake have one triangle The unending quest that drives you her new tour dates visit gigsandtours. loved her films and music since I was at the Villa d’Este hotel, where I’d have I can’t stop until on… To keep entertaining people. com/tour/martine-mccutcheon. n five, and I’d like to meet her one day. lobster spaghetti and sparkling water the bar’s finished. The poem that touches your soul… I As told to Rob McGibbon The misapprehension about yourself with lime cordial. We’d then love the quote, ‘What you think, you Right: Barbra you wish you could erase… The label have a fabulous nanny on become. What you feel, you attract. Streisand in of ‘cockney sparrow’ has stuck with hand to entertain Rafferty Hello, What you imagine, you create.’ It sums me because I was born in Hackney while Jack and I do some Dolly! up that life is all in your hands. Above and appeared in EastEnders. I’m shopping in New York. right: the more than my accent. The event that altered the course of We’d have cocktails in a River Café’s The unlikely interest that engages your life and character… The birth of suite at the St Regis hotel, chocolate your curiosity… Darts – I love the my son Rafferty in February 2015. He where you have your own Brooklyn Bridge. gave me a whole new energy and zest. Far right: skill, the showmanship and butler, then dinner at the two lions how authentic and honest it The crime you would commit knowing River Café under the is, especially with the way you could get away with it… I’d break Brooklyn Bridge. I’d have the crowd behaves and into the Treasury and re-write the laws sea bass then the signature how the women dress up on stamp duty. It makes it harder for chocolate dessert, which so glamorously. people to get on the property ladder. is shaped like the bridge. Next week PS... l Five pages of fabulous recipes

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