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Coming up, four celebs become 12 Again.

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She pitched, I batted,

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and I hit her straight in the eye with the ball.

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I was just square enough and well-behaved enough

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never to get into trouble.

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I drew loads of, like, patterns, all over me.

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THEY GIGGLE

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And we catch up with the girl group, Stooshe,

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to find out what they were like at 12.

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She made me feel like I forgot my knickers, and I didn't!

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And she embarrassed me so much!

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Want to know what they're all talking about? Well..

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Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to be best mates

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with your favourite celebs when they were your age?

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What did they get up to?

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What were their favourite songs,

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and what TV shows did they watch?

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Because despite the glamorous lifestyles they now lead,

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once they were a kid with a dream, just like you.

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This show lets you look back in time

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with your favourite celebs as they become 12 Again.

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No!

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They're they bloodsucking stars of Young Dracula,

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who know how to give us a right fright.

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Now you're just showing off.

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But back in the early noughties,

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Gerran Howell and Clare Thomas

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were just beginning to sink their teeth into life at secondary school.

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When I was 12, I was very outgoing.

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I think I was a little bit of a tomboy as well.

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We need to beef up your training. See what else you can do.

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This isn't about me, it's about Ingrid. She needs our help!

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I think I was a bit of a weird kid.

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I was very quiet, so the opposite of you.

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I used to be into, like, even at 12,

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like Lego and things like that.

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# Nothing to hide, stifle or smother... #

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Today, he's the British rap superstar

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who can usually be found at the top of the charts.

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But in 1995, Professor Green

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was only just starting to find his voice.

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When I was 12, I was a pain in the bum.

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Starting to come out of my shell.

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Definitely starting to become,

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you know, the cheeky person that I am today.

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She's the queen of the BBC Breakfast couch

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who puts the questions to some of your favourite celebs.

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So, how involved are you with Simon Cowell at the moment?

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That's the thing!

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-Will we come back tomorrow?

-I think...yes, I like it here!

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But back in 1982, Susanna Reid hadn't got much further

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than her mum and dad's settee in Croydon.

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It was the last year before I turned into a terrible teenager.

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So it's like the final frontier

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of loveliness, kindness, and innocence

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before it all went horribly wrong.

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All are massive celebs today, but it wasn't always that way.

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So let's rewind and find out

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exactly what they were like when they were 12.

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When I was 12, I had the most awful haircut in the entire world.

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I think I got teased on numerous occasions

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by the local boys' school for being a mushroom head.

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-Thanks, Mum.

-I was not really bothered particularly about clothes.

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Everything was bought by Mum still,

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so I was a bit square.

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The one thing that definitely stood out,

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quite literally, was my teeth.

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They looked like they were arguing with each other.

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Don't laugh!

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I had blonde, curly hair. Kind of..

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-SHE GIGGLES

-Kind of out here.

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My mum used to say I looked like a cherub.

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-That's nice, isn't it?

-Yeah.

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At 12, I was really hard-working.

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I was just well-behaved enough

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never to get into trouble.

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I wasn't a bad kid. But I definitely had my moments.

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I probably started getting the teenage angst

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a bit before I was teenager.

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I was quite short,

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so I remember going to Disneyland

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and my mum giving me her platform boots, so I could get on the rides.

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-SHE GIGGLES

-So I had to wear them all day.

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-Good.

-Yeah, that was fun.

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When Tinkerbell's taller than you, mate,

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that's not what I would call fun.

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So that's what celebs were like.

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What were they getting up to at 12?

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I loved performing.

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I loved, I suppose,

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people would call it showing off. And the main thing I loved at school

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was doing school plays.

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It was a really fantastic place to learn a bit of confidence.

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The only race I won on sports day was a maths race.

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You had to run, answer a sum as quickly as you could,

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-and then run back.

-Ah, yes!

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The traditional run-and-answer-a-sum race!

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Not exactly a sports day classic!

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At least the Prof was staying out of trouble.

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Unlike some.

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When I was 12, I would say that was my rebellious school period.

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Me and my friend were passing a note, and the teacher caught us,

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and obviously didn't appreciate our humour.

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And so I had two hours of after school detention,

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cleaning out the textiles cupboard.

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-Serves you right, I think.

-I know.

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Terrible. Bad influence.

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There's no chance you'd catch Susanna in detention, though.

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I'd done lots of public speaking, so I was a confident girl.

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But in lots of ways, that wound other people up.

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And there were definitely a couple of girls at school

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who tried to knock me down a peg or two.

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And that would hurt, but I think, also,

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it kind of toughened me up as well

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and I developed a bit of a thick skin.

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Back in Hackney, Professor Green was experiencing girl trouble.

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I feel you, brother.

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I had a crush on a girl in primary school

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who ended up coming to the same secondary school.

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But that didn't end so well.

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We were playing rounders. She pitched, I batted

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and I hit her straight in the eye with the ball.

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There was no chance after that.

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He's always had an eye for the ladies.

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In 2003 it wasn't girls causing Gerran problems.

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It was more himself he really needed to look out for.

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I used to be scared of the dark.

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I thought, "Right, what will scare off these monsters?"

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So I got this permanent marker pen

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and I drew loads of patterns all over me,

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thinking that somehow,

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if there was a monster there and I came out covered in patterns,

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he'd run a mile off.

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So, then, the next morning, my parents came into my bedroom

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and I was covered in permanent marker

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and they just had to scrub it all off me.

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For Professor Green, family circumstances meant

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his home life at 12 wasn't always straightforward.

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I was brought up by my grandmother

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and it definitely did make it more difficult.

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Especially parents evenings and stuff.

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"Where's your mum? Where's your dad? Why are they not here?"

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In hindsight, though, I was very fortunate. I actually had

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a much more stable background than a lot of the people that I knew

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at the time but when you're that age you don't understand it.

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You just want your mum and your dad.

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So now we know what our celebs were getting up to as kids

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but what are they listening to?

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When I was 12, I was listening to a lot of the, sort of,

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punk rocky bands that were big at that stage.

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It was Blink 182.

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-I'm going to say it like that.

-Yeah.

-OK.

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# All the small things. #

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Blink One Eighty-two, or Blink 182 if you prefer being correct,

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were a pop punk band from California. When Clare was 12

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they were huge and sold millions of records.

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I absolutely love the video for All The Small Things and,

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you know, taking the Mick out of all the other bands that were big

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at that age was just... I loved it.

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# I will not go

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# Turn the lights off. #

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Yes, those cheeky Blink 182 boys used this video to poke fun

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at the biggest pop acts of the time.

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# Na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na, na

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# Na-na, na-na, na-na. #

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There's a video of The Backstreet Boys, I Want It That Way.

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They're in an aircraft hangar and there's all these fans,

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kind of, screaming their name and Blink did pretty much

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exactly the same set up but, you know, the fans are, kind of, going,

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"I love you," and they're just

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blowing kisses at the camera like that.

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It was brilliant. I loved it.

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While Clare was listening to bands that took the Mick out of pop,

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Gerran was actually listening to pop.

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I remember Justin Timberlake. Yeah. Cry Me A River.

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# You were my Sun

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# You were my Earth. #

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Hollywood superstar Justin Timberlake is best known

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for his acting these days but back in 2003 it was his music

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that got Gerran's attention.

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I remember that video where he jumps on the desk, doesn't he?

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That was really cool.

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And it was after he, like, split up with Britney Spears

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and there's a girl who looks a bit like Britney Spears in it. Yeah.

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Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears were once the showbiz golden couple

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so when they split up and Justin made a video

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with a Britney lookalike, people wondered whether his song

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Cry Me A River was a message to his famous ex.

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# Cry me a river. #

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I remember being devastated. Because they were the first proper couple

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that I was like, "They're going to be together for ever and

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"this is what true love is." And then, of course, that all went.

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And I still, generally,

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have a little bit of hope that one day they will reunite.

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With Clare and Gerran split between rock and pop in the early noughties,

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back in the '80s, Susanna was listening to

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a new type of music coming out of New York.

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My very first single that I bought was Grandmaster Melle Mel

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which was White Lines.

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# Bass. #

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It was just a brilliant introduction into rapping and sampling.

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It had a fantastic beat to it. I loved it.

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# White lines

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# Vision dreams of passion. #

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When Susanna was 12, hip-hop was still pretty new

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and Grandmaster Melle Mel's White Lines became one of

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the first rap records to hit the charts.

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# The more I see The more I do

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# Something like a phenomenon. #

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Early hip-hop records often had lyrics which reflected

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the difficulties of life in a big city and White Lines

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was an anti-drugs song.

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It sort of cemented my interest in that kind of music.

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I mean, I love rap and hip-hop now.

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I love Jay-Z, I love Busta Rhymes, I love Missy Elliot.

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I love all of that kind of music

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and I think it started off with those early records.

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Susanna wasn't the only one of our celebs who loved their rap

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back when they were kids.

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In 1995 there was a hip-hop legend on Professor Green's stereo.

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That was when I first started getting into rap music

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and the first song that really got me into it was

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One More Chance by Biggie.

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# Nobody else. #

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Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls aka Notorious B.I.G

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was one of the most influential rappers of all time.

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# Hah, sicker than your average. #

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What I loved about Biggie, I think it was his presence.

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You got a lot of him in what he did. He was able to project a lot of

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his personality into his music. It was just effortless.

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You could tell it wasn't a chore for him.

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He's still my favourite rap artist today.

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But Biggie's life was to end in tragedy.

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In 1997 he was shot and killed by an unknown gunman.

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His death came just six months after that of rap legend Tupac Shakur

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who was killed in similar circumstances.

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# Cali is where they put they mack down

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# Gimme love

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# California. #

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At the time of their deaths, the two rappers were

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at the centre of a major hip-hop rivalry between artists from

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Biggie's New York City and Tupac's Los Angeles.

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Their deaths did a lot to end this conflict and rap fans

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like Professor Green now remember them as

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two of the best hip-hop artists ever.

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Rap was what really resonated.

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I really became consumed by it.

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I loved the reality of it and the honesty

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when I first got into it.

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I was fortunate enough to get into it during the golden era.

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Still to come, we catch up with Stooshe...

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Don't grow up too fast.

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Just enjoy being young cos it's fun and you can get away with much more.

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..Susanna gets spooked...

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That, for me, was perfect after-school television.

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..and Gerran takes a walk on the weird side.

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It was so out there. I loved it.

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But first, we take a look at what was hitting the headlines

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when our celebs were 12.

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The big news story when I was 12

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was the country's first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher,

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facing a re-election campaign.

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Leader of the Conservative party Margaret Thatcher

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had first been elected Prime Minister in 1979.

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In her first four years in charge of the country

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she had earned a reputation for being tough under pressure.

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The lady's not for turning.

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With voting day approaching, it was widely predicted

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that Margaret Thatcher would be re-elected Prime Minister.

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-How are you today?

-Fine. How are you?

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But it wasn't all plain sailing. When she agreed take calls

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from the public on the Nationwide programme,

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one question about Britain's recent war in the Falklands

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really put her on the spot.

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Margaret Thatcher was being interviewed and a housewife,

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I think her name was Mrs Gould, got in touch with the programme

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and was on a challenging Mrs Thatcher,

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asking about why a ship called the Belgrano was hit and sunk.

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Mrs Thatcher, why did you give the orders to sink it?

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That ship was a danger to our ships.

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That is not good enough, Mrs Thatcher.

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I am just... Would you, please, let me answer?

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Would you, please, let me answer?

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Mrs Gould's exchange with the Prime Minister

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was to make a big impression on fledgling journalist Susanna.

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It was an extraordinary moment to see this ordinary

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member of the public who had the guts

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to ask the Prime Minister the killer question.

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Mrs Thatcher may have been shaken by encounter with Diana Gould

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but she still went on to win the general election by a huge margin.

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To win again is a very great thing at what is really a historic election.

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She remains one of the longest ever serving UK prime ministers.

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In the mid '90s, it was a high-profile murder case

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that hit the news when Professor Green was 12.

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The big news story that happened when I was 12

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was the OJ Simpson trial.

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The OJ Simpson murder trial

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is expected to dominate American TV screens

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when it begins in Los Angeles in the next few weeks.

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OJ Simpson was an actor and an ex American football star.

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In 1994, police charged him with the murders of his ex-wife Nicole

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and her friend Ronald Goldman. What happened next became global news.

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It began with an extraordinary car chase through the streets

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of Los Angeles as OJ Simpson fled from the police.

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I remember all the CNN footage which was broadcast

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even on our televisions.

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You know, the helicopters that were following him

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and all that kind of stuff.

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With 95 million people watching in amazement,

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OJ Simpson finally surrendered.

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After a nine-month trial which gripped Americans

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when it was shown on TV, the jury reached a decision.

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We, the jury, in the above-entitled action, find the defendant,

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Orenthal James Simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder.

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Once OJ was acquitted, debate raged through America about the verdict.

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If you make a lot of money, I guess you can commit murder.

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Free at last. Free at last!

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To this day, nobody else has ever been charged for the murders

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and opinion remains divided about what really happened.

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For Clare and Gerran,

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the story that dominated the news when they were young

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was the emergence of the world's most wanted man.

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The government says that the latest threat

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from Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda group

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is a clear admission that the terrorist group

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was responsible for the suicide hijackings in the United States.

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Nearly 3,000 people died in America in 2001

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when terrorists hijacked planes.

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They flew them into the tallest buildings in New York

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and the Pentagon in Washington. Authorities quickly identified

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Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda organisation as being responsible.

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When Osama bin Laden came out, his face was everywhere.

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-He became like a bogeyman.

-Like a really scary figure.

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After the terror attacks, the US led a search for Osama bin Laden

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that was to last almost 10 years.

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The threat of further attacks by Al Qaeda

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meant that there was an increase in security both here and abroad.

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It did affect a lot in terms of being careful in your own big cities

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and always, if there was a big event happening,

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there being a slight threat of,

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"Oh, my gosh, we have to be extra alert."

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In 2011 the hunt for bin Laden was to reach a dramatic conclusion.

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After being on the run for more than 10 years, Osama bin Laden

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has been killed by American troops.

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The Al Qaeda leader had been tracked to a house in Pakistan.

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American forces raided the compound

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and bin Laden was killed in a firefight.

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The world is safer. It's better place

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because of the death of Osama bin Laden.

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Still to come, we ask the all important question -

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what would our celebs do if they were 12 again?

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I would do anything to call back for a day and just be free again.

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Find what you love to do, whatever it is.

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I wouldn't say anything. I'd probably just like and laugh.

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But, before that, it's time to take two minutes with Stooshe

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to find out what they were like at 12.

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# Oh, oh, oh Turn it up and I'll go

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# Cos I won't need you no more

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# No. #

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Stooshe are Karis, Kourtney and Alexandra.

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They are popstars now but what were they like when they were 12?

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# Love me. #

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When I was 12, I just remember being a bit of a rebel.

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My mum, kind of, cushioned me and I was really naive and a wallflower.

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When I think of my hair and how I used to be,

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I didn't look at all how I look now.

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Good job, Kourtney, cos I can't see you

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getting away with hair like that back in school.

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# Milkybar Kid got me melting sugar With that geek chic all the way. #

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Talking about school, any embarrassing stories

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you'd like to share? And I'm looking at you, Karis.

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You know when you start secondary school, your mum lays out everything

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from your underwear, your socks.

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I decided I wanted to wear a pair of different knickers that day

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so I got a pair out of my drawer, left that pair on the bed,

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whatever, I went to school.

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I got a frantic knock on my classroom door later on in the day.

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"Karis ,Karis, Karis.

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"Your mum said that you forgot to put your knickers on."

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And this was in the class and everybody started laughing.

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And I was like, "I haven't. I haven't." I was like,

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"Have I?" She made me feel like I forgot my knickers and I didn't.

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She embarrassed me so much.

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Hey, don't worry, Karis.

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We all forget our knickers every now and again. Don't we?

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Anyway, moving swiftly on. What sort of music where you Stooshe girls

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listening to when you were 12?

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I was a massive fan of 5ive when I was younger.

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I had all the posters. That was my first ever concert that I went to.

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Slam Dunk The Funk was my tune.

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# Slam dunk the funk

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# Put it up If you got that feeling

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# Slam dunk the funk

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# Put it up If you got that feeling.

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# Slam dunk the funk. #

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One Direction, watch and learn, lads. Watch and learn.

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# Daddy, I've fallen for a monster. #

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Right, girls, any final words of wisdom you can share with us?

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If I could say one thing about being 12 and growing up, it would be,

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"Don't grow up too fast. Just enjoy being young

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"cos it's fun and you can get away with much more."

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# He's big and he's bad. #

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Just live it, find yourself and be who you are.

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Sound advice, Stooshe. Sound advice.

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OK, back to business. Time to find out what other celebs were watching

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when they were 12.

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One of the big programmes that was around when I was 12

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was a series called Rentaghost.

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What are you playing at, you stupid sprite?

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I've sneezed myself into orbit.

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OK, is it just me that has no idea what's going on?

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It was about a guy who died

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and he decided to set up an agency in the afterlife

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where he would rent out other ghosts to haunt things.

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Whooo!

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HORSE WHINNIES

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Rentaghost ran on the BBC between 1976 and 1984.

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This gaggle of not so scary sprites

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included a jester, a witch, a pantomime horse,

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that one and that one as well.

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Isn't this fun?

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But there was one familiar face who was Susanna's favourite.

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Audrey from Coronation Street was in it. Sue Nicholls.

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She played Miss Popov.

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Popov. You see, I suppose she'd popped off, hadn't she? She'd died.

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Ah, yes, Susanna. We see what they've done there. Brilliant work.

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Just a little joke between you and me, darling.

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That, for me, was perfect after-school television.

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And what was on super cool rapper Professor Green's TV

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back in the day?

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Biker Mice from Mars.

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Not exactly what I expected.

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Yeah.

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# Biker mice from Mars

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# Biker mice from Mars. #

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Fo' shizzle, my brizzle. Did I do that right?

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Is that how the kids say it?

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Biker Mice from Mars was a cartoon that featured

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the adventures of Throttle, Modo and Vinnie -

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three mice who liked to ride motorbikes and came from Mars.

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It's all in the name.

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Let's rock and ride!

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The cartoon ran on kids' TV in the mid-90s

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before receiving a reboot in this noughties version.

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# Biker mice from Mars. #

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They had wicked bikes.

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I'm kind of stating the obvious here but they did.

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They were, like, quite space age for that time.

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In fact, I still haven't seen one like it.

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Cool bikes plus a killer rock soundtrack.

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What's not to like?

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# Biker mice from Mars. #

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I just want to know what's going down with my bike.

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Back in 2003, it was a strange comedy show

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that was keeping Gerran up past his bedtime.

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Please welcome your hosts for this evening Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.

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# Welcome to Shooting Stars. #

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I remember watching a lot of Shooting Stars with my dad,

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when it was on, with Vic and Bob.

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# Shooting Stars! #

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It was like a normal panel show

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but then Vic and Bob would just do the weirdest things.

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Shooting Stars was a comedy quiz show

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that had a reputation for off the wall humour.

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Eranu!

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Hosts Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer often spent more time

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making us laugh than actually asking the guests questions.

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Give us those underpants!

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It was also the sure that introduced the country to a man

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who has since become one of our best known comedy stars.

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# Baked Potato changed my life

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# Baked Potato showed me the way

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# If you want to know... #

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You had that look is on the drums, doing the scores. George Dawes.

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Both teams have three points.

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# Do be good, don't be bad

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# Thank you, Baked Potato

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# Do be happy, don't be sad

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# Thank you, Baked Potato. #

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It was really good, yeah. Just because it was so strange.

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It was so out there. I loved it.

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# ..Baked Potato say

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# Baked Potato! #

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At 12, Clare wasn't just watching telly, she was on it.

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When I was 12, I'd already started working.

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I was doing a show for CBBC called There's A Viking In My Bed.

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'A Viking somehow magically gets transported

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'from his age into the modern age and ends up,

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'randomly, as you do, in a bed and breakfast down in Brighton.'

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Look, Siggy, go and have your photo taken.

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After that, you can look in the shop windows but don't go in.

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Don't touch anything and don't talk to any strangers. Meet me back here.

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Thank you.

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The show might have been a great springboard into showbiz for Clare

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but it also made going to school a little bit weird.

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It was showing during the year I was 12 so people were watching it

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and then, sort of, getting to know me at school and things like that,

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which was less than ideal.

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But people, kind of, took me under their wing a little bit

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and then, after that, I made friends fairly quickly.

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Stupid Viking.

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So, those were the TV memories of our celebs

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but what do they most remember about being 12?

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The best thing about being 12.

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It's easy. It was the freedom.

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It was the lack of responsibility.

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You know, still young enough

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to really enjoy things in quite a carefree manner.

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When I look back at myself at 12, I think,

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"OK, you were quite square."

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But I didn't worry about it. I didn't feel huge pressure

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to look a particular way or dress a particular way or wear make up.

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But everything was to change on my 13th birthday.

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I was still getting towards being a grown-up kid

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but I was still a kid.

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And I was finding out things about myself everyday

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and what I liked, what I could do, what my capabilities were.

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It was the time when a lot of things started for me.

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Music and drama. It was the beginning point of that.

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-Self-discovery begins at that time.

-Yeah. Yeah.

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-Proper self-discovery.

-Yeah, I'd say.

-Where you're going as an adult.

-Mm.

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You start changing as a person. You stop playing with certain toys,

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you start watching certain TV programmes,

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the time you go to bed changes,

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the things you talk about with your mates all change.

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I think I'd tell my 12-year-old self to chill out a bit.

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To not try so hard to be liked or likeable. Just be yourself.

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I'd tell myself to come out of my shell a bit more,

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be a bit more extrovert, perhaps, because I was quite introverted.

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And just relax, have fun.

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If I could go back in time and talk to my 12-year-old self,

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I wouldn't say a thing. I'm quite happy with where I've ended up.

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So I wouldn't say anything. I'd probably just look and laugh.

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I would say, "Find what you love to do. Whatever it is.

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"And don't worry what people are saying about it

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"and enjoy doing that."

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Once high school is done,

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adult things really, properly start coming in on you

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and I would do anything to go back for a day and be free again.

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12 years old. I wish I could be 12 years old again.

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I'd have so much fun.

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So, what have we learnt then?

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There's more to mice than just cheese...

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I just want to know what's going down with my bike.

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..if you want to give someone a fright, don't rent these ghosts...

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Whooo!

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HORSE WHINNIES

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..and if you ever need advice from a vegetable,

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there's only one choice.

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# Baked potato! #

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