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HOPING: J Cole wish list

WITH MANY of our own Christmas lists already made, we asked a few celebrity personalities what they would like to find under their Christmas Trees this year.

J Cole, US rapper

"I would like a nice hairbrush, socks and new cologne."
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Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington

"I’d like an iPad."
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Nonso Anozie, actor

"I would like everyone to go out a support a black-owned business this Christmas."
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Eddie Kadi, comedian

"I want peace in my country, the Congo. We’ve just had our elections so I’m hoping that the right President is running the country by December 25. I’m hoping they are instrumental in rebuilding my country. I also want The Congo to have all the resources needed to sustain itself a million times over."
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Chi Onwurah, MP for Newcastle Central

"For the country, I’d like an innovation economy, generating sustainable jobs in a wide range of areas. On a more personal note, I’d like an inexhaustible supply of freshly cooked jollof rice and pepper chicken following me up and down the country between Newcastle to London."
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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, actor

"It would be nice to have a wife – or have more hours in the day!"
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Courtney Pine, jazz musician

"As a busy performer and record company CEO, I would like to see the media, in particular the TV networks present more current jazz artists on their medium. I would love to see a Saturday night UK jazz special on TV this Christmas, featuring the likes of Soweto Kinch, Cameron Pierre, Juliet Kelly, Tony Kofi and Jazz Jamaica, to name a few."
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Kojo, comedian

"This Christmas, I’d ask everyone who knows any man who has a beef with another man not to rave during the festive season. Every year we lose someone because some idiot wanted to wear white trainers to a rave. I wish they would find a quiet street and slap themselves!"
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David Lammy, MP for Tottenham

"I’d like one billion pounds to regenerate Tottenham."
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