"I can be horribly smug and conceited, and yet always in the back of my mind is the thought that things could go terribly wrong at any moment. What is the trait you most deplore in others? Aggression. Anger. Rudeness. Intolerance. Lack of understanding. Pretty much your average day on X. What was your most embarrassing moment? I've shat myself in public three times. It's never quite as bad as you fear."
"Three mature palm trees. We restored a property in Italy that had been derelict and I needed to make it look established as quickly as I could. What is your most treasured possession? Aside from the palm trees? My wife is a wonderful graphic designer and letterpress printer. For my 50th, she made me a little cabinet with 50 books in it, about different aspects of my life. Describe yourself in three words Middle-class wanker."
Charlie Higson was born in Somerset and is 67. He co-created, co-wrote and acted in The Fast Show and will tour An Evening With the Fast Show for its 30th anniversary from November to January. He wrote the Young Bond and The Enemy series and launched the history podcast Willy Willy Harry Stee in 2023, and a book of the famous rhyme has been published. He is married with three children and lives in London. He admits to being smug and conceited at times, deplores aggression and intolerance, recounts three public incidents of soiling himself, and treasures a cabinet of 50 books made by his wife.
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