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" I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17. "

Francesca Annis

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" I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either. "

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