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I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.

Helen Fielding

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Helen Fielding
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 19
Journalist
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