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British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted on a television programme that he has never sent flowers to his wife Cherie and that he had a youthful crush on Hollywood beauty Grace Kelly.
Blair, who allowed Channel 4 interviewer June Sarpong to shadow him for two days last month, made other personal revelations when asked questions he rarely hears on the usual television political programs.
During the interviews for a program targeting 18-30 year olds, the prime minister admitted he sometimes has to "wing it" when making public appearances and that he yearns to go out for a drink without being recognised.
However, the most dramatic revelation was his reply to Sarpong's question whether he still sends his wife flowers, prompting his interviewer to shriek in disbelief. "I've never sent her flowers. If I sent her flowers, she would get worried," Blair said.
But he added: "I am romantic. There are other ways of being romantic."
Blair needed a few moments to recall which posters he had on his bedroom wall as a youngster, then revealed: "I'll tell you... actually, when I was younger, I loved Grace Kelly."
Born in 1929, Kelly starred in films like 'Dial M For Murder', 'Rear Window' and 'High Society' in the mid-1950s, but quit acting to marry Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956, when Blair was just two years old.
Blair admitted he initially found it "odd" to be prime minister and to be rushed in motorcades from appointment to appointment, and worried that his lifestyle left him "a bit isolated" from ordinary people.
He admitted that he was constantly on the phone between public appearances, and rarely had time to prepare for his next event, telling Sarpong: "I wing it all the time."
And he revealed he has to check himself before he replies to hostile questions from the public. "The worst thing is when someone is giving you a real earful and you think 'I'm going to say something I will regret'," he said.
Asked what he would do if he could be invisible for a day, Blair yearned for a more ordinary life, saying he would "just walk down the street and go to the pub... just be absolutely normal".
中文翻译
英国首相托尼·布莱尔在一个电视节目中承认，他从未给妻子切丽送过花，并透露自己年轻时曾迷恋好莱坞美女格蕾丝·凯莉。
上个月，布莱尔允许第四频道记者琼·萨普昂跟随他两天进行采访。当被问到在通常的政治节目中很少听到的问题时，他透露了许多个人隐私。
在一个面向18至30岁人群的节目中，这位首相承认，有时在公开露面时他不得不“即兴发挥”，并且他渴望能在不被认出的情况下出去喝一杯。
然而，最具戏剧性的爆料出现在他回答萨普昂的一个问题时——萨普昂因不敢相信他的答案而尖叫起来——这个问题是“他是否仍然给妻子送花”。布莱尔说：“我从未给她送过花。如果我送花给她，她可能会担心（是不是出了什么问题）。”
但他补充道：“我是个浪漫的人。浪漫还可以用很多其他方式来表达。”
布莱尔花了一点时间回忆他年轻时卧室墙上贴的是哪张海报，然后透露：“我告诉你们吧……其实，我年轻时喜欢格蕾丝·凯莉。”
凯莉出生于1929年，在20世纪50年代中期主演了《电话情杀案》、《后窗》和《上流社会》等电影，但在1956年嫁给摩纳哥王子雷尼尔后便息影，当时布莱尔只有两岁。
布莱尔承认，他最初觉得当首相很“奇怪”，在车队护送下匆忙地从一个约会赶赴下一个约会，并担心自己的生活方式让他与普通人“有点脱节”。
他承认，在公开露面的间隙，他总是不停地打电话，几乎没有时间为下一个活动做准备，他告诉萨普昂：“我每时每刻都在即兴发挥。”
他还透露，在回答公众提出的带有敌意的问题之前，他必须控制好自己。他说：“最糟糕的情况是，当有人对你严厉斥责或抱怨时，你会想‘我可能会说出一些让自己后悔的话’。”
当被问及如果能“隐身”一天他会做什么时，布莱尔渴望一种更普通的生活，他说他会“就在街上走走，去酒馆坐坐……就是过一种绝对正常的生活”。