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Growing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade.

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Anne Robinson
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: September 26
Autobiographer
Journalist
Television Presenter
Crosby
Merseyside
Anne Josephine Robinson
Family
Business
Orientated
Learnt
Naturally
Tricks
Meant
Trade
Growing

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