Experience
You share your unique experiences
Experience: I was dragged underwater by a humpback whale
It rose above my head, a big black shape that blocked out the sky
Experience: I’ve been on 25 TV gameshows
As a young woman, I stood out. I suspect some people underestimated me
Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; the fallacy of ‘tradwives’; and ‘My dying wife found me a girlfriend’ – podcast
Actor Jeff Goldblum on vanity, mortality and becoming a father in his 60s; sundresses and rugged self-sufficiency: the ‘tradwives’ trend touts a conservative American past that didn’t exist; and one man’s extraordinary story of embracing the dating world with the help of his terminally partner.
Experience: My dying wife found me a girlfriend
I created a dating profile, using words Carolyn dictated from her bed
Experience: I’ve tried 50,000 beers
At a festival, I try up to 17 half pints, and the most I’ve been to in a year is 109
Experience: I’m an 81-year-old crash‑test dummy
Why go to a bingo hall when I could be hoisted into a helicopter instead?
Experience: We found a family of bears in our pool
The cubs stood nervously on the edge, too scared to get in
Experience: I survived a plane crash without a scratch
I didn’t hear the others screaming. I felt as if I was in a bubble
Experience: a leech lived up my nose for a month
I recoiled in horror: I could see a thick black body hanging out of my nostril
Experience: I gave birth to my granddaughter
My husband joked: ‘My wife is pregnant – but it’s not mine’
Experience: I sang at Madonna’s wedding
Afterwards, I spoke to Sting. He said I’d done so well and laughed that it was a tough crowd
Experience: I live on trains
I pick my night train and wait for it to swing me across Germany as I sleep
Experience: I went on 100 dates in a day
The youngest was 21 and the oldest 80. The effort people made blew me away
Experience: ‘I woke up with a Welsh accent’
My own family didn’t recognise me when I phoned them
Experience: my fiance died on our wedding day – and then I discovered his secret life
It was like I was trapped in a movie – one with a hideous plot twist
Experience: I was hit by a subway train – but have no memory of it
The conductor saw me on the tracks, trying to get back on the platform. He pulled on the emergency brakes, but it was too late
Experience: I’ve eaten pizza every day for six years
I’ve tried peanut butter and bacon pizza, and had a caviar one, too
Experience: I’m making a lifesize replica of the Bayeux tapestry
It’s been eight years since I started, and I’m now 44 metres in. It’s taken its toll
Experience: I lost my hands after being electrocuted by 14,400 volts
As the scrap metal touched the power line, everything went black
Experience: my newborn baby was kidnapped from hospital
I flew down the corridor screaming at everyone: ‘Do you have my baby?’
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