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I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

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Scott Speedman
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 1
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London
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Robert Scott Speedman
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