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I had started working in television but it did not pay that much. I was 27, renting this little one-bed flat in Shepherd's Bush, West London, with a bathroom so small only someone of my size could actually get in it.

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Anthea Turner
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 25
Journalist
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Anthea Millicent Turner
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