“Poor me, poor me, pour me another.”

—  George Galloway

" Big Brother's history of bother http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6270963.stm", BBC News online, January 17, 2007
Referring to recovering alcoholic Michael Barrymore while in the Celebrity Big Brother 2006 house.

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British politician, broadcaster, and writer 1954

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