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| • | "I smoke and we both love a drink but as soon as I get pregnant that will stop", The Sun (UK), Jun. 9, '01 |
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| • | "We are both trying to cut down on drinking and smoking to improve our chances [of having a baby]", Daily Express (UK), Jan. 3, '02 |
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| • | quit - husband Robert: "Until January 1...Tracy was on about seven [cigarettes a day]", Tracy: "we are not smoking", Daily Express (UK), Jan. 10, '02 |
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| • | quit - "Miss Shaw said...they had both stopped smoking as a New Year resolution", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 10, '02
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| • | "Tracy insisted that giving up smoking was the reason she and her husband had a fight on a packed holiday jet. ... 'I was desperate for a cigarette but didn't want to let it show' ... An onlooker said: 'She hit him with her fist in his face - five, six, seven times in a row. It was incredible. She was using every word in the dictionary. He bit her on the hand and she wailed for about five minutes' ... caused by her decision to give up smoking on New Year's Eve", Evening Standard (UK), Jan. 10, '02 |
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| • | quit - "Tracy Shaw says giving up smoking is to blame for row", website, Jan. 11, '02
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| • | "says she and her husband Robert Ashworth had a 'little tiff' on a holiday jet because they were giving up smoking. The actress claims they were irritable because they had run out of Nicorette patches. The couple were on a flight from the Cayman Islands when fellow passengers say they started rowing. Tracy Shaw said: 'We had a little tiff because we'd given up smoking. We didn't have any Nicorettes' ", where?, Jan. 11, '02
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| • | "Tracy said she was wrongly accused by other papers of socking hubby Robert Ashworth on a BA jet from the Cayman Islands. 'We had a tiff about not having a cigarette'", Daily Star (UK), Jan. 12, '02 |
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| • | quit - "My biggest vice used to be smoking but we both gave up two days before New Year's Eve. I'm all right but it's hard going when people smoke round you. Or if you have a drink. I wasn't a heavy or addictive smoker...I only started when I joined the Street. Oh, The Green Room, yes. Fatal! We're both on Nicorettes chewing gum, and I really hate it", The Mirror (UK), Jan. 18, '02 |
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| • | quit - "Fans of Corrie cutie Tracy Shaw are begging her to have a health check, fearing her years of smoking have made her voice crack up. The star, who plays love-cheat Maxine Peacock, quit the cigs over the New Year", Daily Star (UK), Jan. 24, '02 |
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| • | "in January, Tracy, 28, reportedly attacked her husband on board a British Airways flight. ... 'We had both given up cigarettes and were tired. We weren't drunk'", Daily Record (UK), Feb. 8, '02 |
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| • | quit - "at the beginning of this year, Coronation Street actress Tracy Shaw became involved in a famous row on a packed holiday jet with her new husband, TV producer Robert Ashworth. Tracy blamed the row on the rising tensions both were feeling when they jointly decided to give up smoking over New Year. 'I was desperate for a cigarette but didn't want to let it show, and when he said the wrong thing I just let him have both barrels', says Tracy. Despite the row both Tracy, who smoked seven a day, and Robert, who used to get through 30 a day, successfully quit by using Nicorette chewing gum, although Tracy admitted she hated the taste", The Express (UK), Mar. 12, '02 |
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| • | quit - "I might not be able to, but I could fall pregnant tomorrow. I haven't seen a doctor, but we're doing what we can. We both stopped smoking two days before New Year - I'm on patches, Rob's on Nicorette. We'll just let nature take its course'", The Mirror (UK), Mar. 23, '02 |
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| • | quit - "When she laughs it's full-on and throaty - though getting less so since she gave up her heavy smoking at New Year", Daily Express (Saturday Magazine) (UK), Mar. 30, '02 |
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| • | quit - "we'd had some champagne. But I'm a happy drunk. Ask Robert. I get really giggly, never aggressive. We'd also just given up smoking as a New Year resolution and we didn't have any Nicorette in our hand luggage. That could have put us on edge", Sunday Mirror (UK), Apr. 21, '02 |
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| • | "We love Tracy Shaw but she wasn't convincing us that she had given up the evil weed. The 28-year-old soap star told 3am: 'I might be smoking but that doesn't mean I'm a smoker'", The Mirror (UK), Apr. 23, '02 |
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| • | "Tracy Shaw said severe pre-menstrual syndrome was to blame for her violent outburst on board a holiday plane. Business class passengers on the BA flight back from the Cayman Islands watched in disbelief as she had a blazing row with her husband, Robert Ashworth. It culminated in Tracy hitting him across the face and then bursting in to tears. She later explained that complimentary champagne, PMS and the pressures of having just stopped smoking, all caused her to lose her temper", Daily Record (UK), Jul. 25, '02 |
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| • | Smoking in London's Met bar with boyfriend, She smoked three cigarettes in about 45 minutes, when quizzed about her quiting, she said "I have", OH magazine, Jul. '02 |
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| • | "leaves an acupunture clinic in her bid to quit smoking - so she can have a baby. Tracy, 29, is desperate to start a family with hubby Robert Ashworth. And she has turned to the alternative treatment after trying THREE TIMES this year to kick her 10-a-day habit, without success...She has been smoking since her teens. Tracy's first bid to quit was in last January - and she got so desperate for a cig on a flight, she ended up FIGHTING with TV producer Robert, 29", Sunday People (UK), Oct. 20, '02
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| • | quit - "Her romance hit a rocky patch in January after fellow passengers on a flight from the Caribbean complained the pair had had a row which led Tracy to wallop Robert. 'We had a tiff, because we'd both given up fags and we were a bit irritable and tired,' she explains. 'We weren't drunk. Don't get me wrong, I like my champagne. But the plane hadn't even taken off'", Daily Star (UK), Dec. 14, '02 |
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| • | "I had Delhi belly in Egypt, so I was off the drink and off the cigarettes and things like that, so I couldn't really enjoy the holiday. I got a little bit tiddly one night on a few glasses of champagne, but I've been cutting down. Doing The Blue Room on stage every night, I'm not going to be drinking and smoking. I've got to get a lot healthier", The Mirror (UK), Feb. 1, '03 |
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| • | "she blamed the incident on her attempts to give up cigarettes", Daily Mail (UK), Mar. 26, '03
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| • | "last year Shaw slapped her husband in public after filming for the ITV holiday programme Wish You Were Here. She blamed that on her attempts to give up cigarettes", The People (UK), Mar. 30, '03 |
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| • | "sitting cross-legged on the grass, a cigarette in one hand", Brighton & Hove Argus (UK), Jul. 2, '03
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| • | quit - "Since becoming pregnant, Tracy has quit smoking", Sunday Mirror (UK), Sep. 19, '04
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