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| • | during an episode of UK comedy quiz show she was asked if she "liked smoking fags", and replied "you know I do", "Shooting Stars" (UK), '97 |
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| • | "The last time Sky [magazine] met Donna, she was slithering about on a sofa, Silk Cut in one hand, a bottle of Evian in the other", "She chats, she smokes, she jokes", Sky, Jul. '99 |
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| • | "she got the fag breaks right and had one every half hour", News of the World (UK), Sep. 19, '99 |
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| • | "What you smoking? 'Silk Cut Extra Mild. The Ultras are terrible. I normally smoke Silk Cut normal, but I've just got a load of duty free to get through.' So you won't be poncing money off me for the fag machine? 'Only if I run out and don't have any change. I'd pay you back, though.'", Sky, Oct. '99 |
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| • | "Kate Moss nicks her fags", The Express (UK), Nov. 20, '99 |
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| • | smoked, documentary, Inner Tube (UK) (ITV), Jan. 7, '00 |
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| • | "'You can't blame people for thinking what they think, I suppose,' she says, smoking fitfully, cross-legged in the Soho offices of her production company", The Observer (UK), Nov. 5, '00
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| • | "She...rubs her right ear. She has implants in them she explains, to help her cut down on smoking.", "Air pushes her plate away, lights up a Marlboro and takes a drag before answering.", "she says, lighting another Marlboro with the butt of the last one.", "Donna Air draws on her cigarette, and taps her lighter against the tablecloth.", Sunday Telegraph (The Sunday Telegraph Magazine supplement), Nov. 26, '00
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| • | "What do you most regret about today? 'Smoking four cigarettes early in the morning - although on a heavy day I can clock up 20.' ", Sunday Express (magazine) (UK), Feb. 11, '01 |
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| • | "loves cigarettes and puffs constantly while telling herself that she must give up", Daily Mail (Weekend magazine) (UK), Apr. 21, '01 |
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| • | "Which drug is the most intriguing? 'Nicotine. Why can't I stop smoking? I can do most other things. In fact I'm having a course of acupuncture at the moment to get off it'", GQ (UK), Jun. '01 |
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| • | "My biggest vice is smoking, although it's only about five a day. And I very rarely smoke during the day, it's usually in the evening with the wine. I've been smoking since I was 17 and I have tried to give up. And I really want to, I certainly don't condone smoking. But I know I'll have to give up when I get pregnant, have kids. In fact, two years before, I've decided. So I reckon I might just as well keep on smoking until then. And enjoy it", The Mirror (UK), Apr. 5, '02 |
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| • | "lighting a cigarette...admits that junk food and smoking are vices, albeit her only ones...'I don't do anything to excess these days. I certainly don't smoke like I used to. Nowadays I just have a couple of glasses of red wine with a meal and a couple of cigarettes as a treat. I don't think that's bad'", Sunday Express (S:2 magazine) (UK), Jul. 7, '02 |
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| • | quit - "I have stopped smoking and I don't want to drink because the temptation will be too much", Daily Star (UK), Feb. 13, '03 |
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| • | quit - "she has already given up alcohol and cigarettes. 'I always wanted to quit and never thought I could,' she said", News of the World (UK), Feb. 16, '03 |
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| • | quit - "Donna Air was keeping mum about rumours that she's pregnant when she hit the catwalk at the weekend. York-born designer Scott Henshall asked Donna, 23, to model some of his risque creations for his Air Mauritius-sponsored fashion show. But the Geordie lass, who has been dating Damian Aspinall for two years, refused to talk about her expanding belly, although she did admit to giving up the booze and fags", The Mirror (UK), Feb. 18, '03 |
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| • | quit - "TV chiefs have banned smoking on a new show set in a nightclub to be hosted by pregnant Donna Air. The sexy Geordie revealed last week she was expecting her millionaire boyfriend Damian Aspinall's baby. But ITV bosses feared she might quit if her unborn child's health was at risk. Now they've ordered punters on the fly-on-the-wall reality show The Club to stub out their cigarettes. Last night a source revealed: 'Donna was the number one choice for presenter and we wouldn't want to lose her. Six weeks of filming will be hard enough for her without her worrying about smoke'. Ex-Byker Grove star Donna, 24, announced last month she'd quit fags and booze", Daily Star (UK), Feb. 23, '03
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| • | quit - "The 23-year-old says she's firmly dumped the fags and booze and can't wait for the birth of her first child ... packing in smoking has been the hardest challenge. 'It's been extremely difficult. I've had a few hairy moments and an emotional day when I went from super-energetic and super-happy to being in tears on my bed'", Newcastle Evening Chronicle (UK), Feb. 26, '03 |
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| • | quit - "The die-hard party girl has been having early nights, given up her beloved red wine and Daiquiri cocktails and stubbed out cigarettes for good. Forgoing fags has been the hardest part of the pregnancy so far. 'It's been extremely difficult,' she says, rolling her eyes but still smiling. 'I'm still waking up with migraines. I mean, I could have one at any moment, but there's something inside me going, 'No!' ... Until I stopped smoking I didn't realise how hard it was. Now I know why cab drivers always talk the behind off me when they've stopped smoking - because talking about it helps.' And for the next five minutes or so Air chatters on about the perils of smoking and torture of quitting", Wales on Sunday (UK), Mar. 2, '03 |
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| • | quit - "Thrilled at the prospect of being a mum, she's made a few changes to her lifestyle - no more late-night parties, smoking or junk food", Sunday Mirror (UK), Mar. 16, '03 |
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| • | quit - "At just 23, she has given up the late-night partying, booze and smoking after years of roaming the party scene", Daily Mail (UK), Mar. 17, '03 |
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| • | quit - "She's given up smoking and drinking completely", Evening Standard (UK), Mar. 17, '03
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| • | "Just recently I've been waking up during the night sweating like a paedophile in a park, dying for a cigarette. I'm not sure how much longer i can go without one for", Metro Radio (Newcastle, UK), Apr. 25, '03 |
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| • | "Donna Air, has fallen back into partying mode. 'I'm being looked after by Lynn Ferguson who's got me on the booze and back on the fags,' said the delightful Donna over a jar of vino", The Scotsman (UK), Aug. 9, '04
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| • | "as the archetypal ladette, she spent her nights drinking and smoking in clubs with celebrity pals... despite her good intentions, the star admits she's no saint and still can't give up smoking... 'I didn't smoke when I was pregnant and I'd never do it in the house or around [my daughter] Freya,' she says. 'But that's my Achilles heel. Everything in moderation, so if I want a cigarette I'll just have one. If I want a nice wine I'll have it. I just don't do it to extremes like I used to'", Daily Mirror (UK), Feb. 7, '05
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| • | quit - "New mum Donna has managed to kick the evil weed for good - by shunning booze. 'I have stopped smoking and I don't want to drink because the temptation will be too much,' she says", icircle website, when?
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| • | quit - "she's given up the fags and the booze. Her battle with smoking has lasted over two years - she had implants in her ears in 2000 to help her kick the habit - and is keen not to be tempted back", Sky.com, when?
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| • | "She smokes", Donna's World website, when?
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