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I never wanted to run a production company. I didn't want to convert my life into running a business.... so I always resisted it and kept things simple.

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Anne Robinson
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: September 26
Autobiographer
Journalist
Television Presenter
Crosby
Merseyside
Anne Josephine Robinson
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