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MICHAEL ONDAATJE, 75. The Sri-Lankan born, Canadian author is best known for Booker prizewinni­ng The English Patient, made into a multi-Oscar-winning film starring Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas (pictured). He named one character ‘Kip’, his nickname at London’s Dulwich College in the late Fifties. It came from oily stains on his exercise books that reminded fellow pupils of canned kippers. However, Ondaatje recalls ‘it didn’t feel insulting’. SIR IAN HOLM, 87. The Olivier and Baftaaward winning English actor, who played Bilbo Baggins in the Lord Of The Rings and Hobbit films, said the furry Hobbit feet he had to wear were ‘like boats with toes’. Holm hates milk, but in the 1979 Alien movie, he had to gargle and repeatedly spit it out during his final scene — in which his character, android Ash, was decapitate­d.

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