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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Rachel Corcoran

Sunday with Gok Wan: ‘Covent Garden for coffee and a croissant’

‘I have a close group of about 70 friends on a group text’: Gok Wan.
‘I have a close group of about 70 friends on a group text’: Gok Wan. Photograph: Karwai Tang/WireImage

What time are you up? Between 6 and 7am every day. I’m late to bed, too – I don’t sleep well. I have a Teasmade in my bedroom, because I’m 104, and my kitchen is four floors down, but Sunday is the only day I don’t set it. I manually switch it on and make a cup of tea, then wake up Dolly, my dog, then go through social media for 20 minutes. I have a close group of about 70 friends on a group text, and I send a funny message to them every morning.

What’s for breakfast? I normally go out for brunch with friends. I like to do my 10,000 steps, so I’ll do half my dog walk on my own, then meet Dolly’s best friend, Jasper, in the WatchHouse in Covent Garden for coffee and a croissant. We usually walk down to the South Bank, past Tate Modern, over the bridge to St Paul’s and back to Soho, so we work up an appetite.

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