An eyelash curler. A pizza oven. ‘Very good white wine’. Those are all items chosen by celebrity guests as a luxury on the long-running radio show Desert Island Discs.
In 2009, comedian and author David Walliams was invited on and chose as his luxury a gun, saying that if he had to endure loneliness, he would want to end his life.
‘I can’t stand being on my own,’ he said. ‘I hate it. I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I am with my own thoughts I start to unravel and I start to think self-destructive thoughts.’
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