Broadcaster Paul Gambaccini London, Then a Wedding in New the Prized Possession You Value Above the Temptation You Wish You Could York
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‘I love comics – I even won Celebrity Mastermind in 2010 thanks to my knowledge of DC Comics’ DEFINITE The unfulfilled ambition that contin- ues to haunt you… To play Major League baseball. I did get into the Brit- ish Softball Hall of Fame for pitching for Regent’s Park for 17 years! ARTICLE The crime you would commit knowing you could get away with it… I’d point We ask a celebrity a set of devilishly out unpleasant truths about politicians probing questions – and only accept and public figures without being sued. The happiest moment you will cher- THE definitive answer. This week ish forever… Getting married to Chris. We had a civil partnership in it’s broadcaster Paul Gambaccini London, then a wedding in New The prized possession you value above The temptation you wish you could York. Being married has taken my all others… My 1911 Steinway piano, resist… Cake. I’ve cut it out of my diet, life to a new level of fulfilment. which I bought in London in 1983. I but I’m still a sucker for olive oil cake. The saddest time that shook your first sat at a piano aged five – for me, The person who has influenced world… When our spaniel Danny was it’s the best way to express emotions. you most… My mother run over when I was young. He was The biggest regret you wish you could Dorothy. She did so hiding under our car because he didn’t amend… That I never met my grand- much for me and want us to leave him behind on a fam- ily day out. My dad decided to move father Guido. He was an Italian tailor passed on her ability to The event that The way you would spend your fantasy the car to scare him, but he didn’t get who emigrated to America before get a job done. She died altered the 24 hours, with no travel restrictions... out of the way. It was heartbreaking. WWI. I’d love to have talked to him in 2011 aged 91. course of your I’d wake up early to watch the sunrise about that era, but he died a few years The piece of wisdom you life and charac- over London from the terrace of our The order of service at your funeral… before I was born in 1949. would pass on to a child… Be ter… Going to apartment on the South Bank. For I want speeches by my dearest The book that holds an everlast- kind and the kindness will Oxford aged 21 breakfast I’d have orange juice and a friends and music, including All The ing resonance… My Many come back to you. to study philoso- cheese croissant from Maison Bertaux Way, The End by Earl Grant and Years, the autobiography of phy, politics and economics. I’ve in Soho. I’d spend all day with Chris, Grieg’s Piano Concerto. The figure from history for whom lived in England ever since. beginning with a walk through Jardin the late pianist Arthur The way you want to be remembered… you’d most like to buy a pie and a des Tuileries in Paris to Le Palais Roy- Rubinstein, reflects a real The misapprehension about yourself I’m with Woody Allen; I don’t want to pint… Jesus Christ – I’d ask what al. We’d stop off at the café Angelina zest for life and music. you wish you could erase… That I’m achieve immortality through my work, he thinks of the all things that for hot chocolate. Lunch would be The pet hate that Canadian – I get asked that a lot. I was I want to achieve it through not dying! have been done in his name. back in London at The Delaunay, makes your hack- born in the Bronx. The unending quest that drives where I’d have chicken schnitzel with a The Plug… Paul takes over Pick Of les rise... When you on… To live a long and The priority activity if you were the cucumber salad, then apple or rhubarb The Pops on BBC Radio 2 from 9 July. people entrust- healthy life, so I can share it with Invisible Man for a day… I’d watch Jack crumble depending on the season. His book Love, Paul Gambaccini is ed with power my husband, Christopher. Nicklaus play golf to see my favourite After that we’d go to New York to published by Biteback Publishing, misuse it by sport from a champion’s perspective. watch my baseball team The Mets beat bitebackpublishing.com. n persecuting the The song that means most The Dodgers, then have ice cream at As told to Rob McGibbon powerless to serve to you… All The Way by The treasured item you lost and wish Grom Gelato near Central their own ends. Frank Sinatra. Chris and I you could have again… My All-Ameri- Park. For the evening, I’d repeated the lyrics as our can Comics Vol 1 No 16 from 1940, The film you can watch have an Italian dinner at wedding vows in 2012. They sum which I sold in New York in 1963 for time and time again… the nearby A Voce restau- up the hopes of anyone who is $15. It had the first Green Lantern story I’ve watched Citizen Kane rant with my friends and getting married. and would now be worth $155,000! about 20 times. I always family. I’d ask the chef to see something new in it. The unlikely interest that engag- The philosophy that underpins your bring back a starter they es your curiosity… Lately it’s been life… Live every day like it’s your last, used to do, focaccia with Right: Frank 20th-century American newspa- because one day you’ll be right! ricotta cheese, then have Sinatra. Above per comic strips. I love comics The poem that touches your soul… tuna. I’d sleep at my right: DC Comics. Far right: sunrise and even won Celebrity Master- Robert Frost’s Stopping By Woods On apartment near the Lin- over the South mind in 2010 thanks to my knowl- A Snowy Evening. It captures the iso- coln Centre, which I Y Bank in London edge of DC Comics. lation and beauty of the countryside. bought last year. tt E G ER, REX, B E W NEXT WEEK uli , ck l O PS... Head judge David Suchet st ER Pixie Lott plays Holly Golightly when Breakfast At Tiffany’s launches our annual Great shutt opens at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket on Thursday. British Wildlife Photography Challenge l A feast of RNER/REX/ tu RY Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is in cinemas from Friday. And fish dishes from Tom ma : Kerridge l PLUS Britain’s aphs R G O Earth, Wind & Fire perform at The O2 Arena the same day T most detailed TV listings O ph PLEASE RECYCLE Our newspapers, magazines DailY Mail WEEKEND is publishED BY AssOciatED NEwspapERS Ltd. PRINTED BY PRINOvis UK Ltd, 4 DakOta DRivE, LivERPOOL L24 8RJ. 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