Roger Moore in the 1973 James Bond film: Live And Let Die. Mother of Deborah Moore, Geoffrey Moore, and Christian Moore. The comments below have not been moderated. Clint couldn't, so Moore started telling him jokes, with no effect. “Next thing I know, it was like slow motion, I could feel the guitar coming out of my hands and I could see it up above my head and… bash, it came down. His next Bond movie was The Man With The Golden Gun opposite Maud Adams and Britt Ekland — Mud and Birt, as he called them. Berman never forgave him. He flirted with her outrageously and later that night took her to bed. Years later, Moore discovered his father had sold his motorcycle to pay the doctor's bill. View our online Press Pack. I said, ‘Right, that’s it, I’m leaving’. When critics complained he had been too flippant for a spy, he retorted that no real espionage agent could expect to survive when every barman in the world recognised him and knew how to make his signature martini cocktail. Moore also claimed Squires was abusive during their relationship and even smashed a guitar over his head. His voice was unmistakable, a deep V8 purr like a sports car running on honey for fuel. Speaking of Kiki, she asked him: 'Have you found the right one at last, Roger? A friend, a colleague, a father, a husband and a hero. Moore, however, never got over his guilt at betraying the woman who made his career, and 30 years later, when Squires was dying from lung cancer, he paid for her care. In one scene, where the Saint was supposed to be running alongside a car — an expensive effect to shoot — he held up a piece of paper with the word 'STOP' written on it. George Moore, a frustrated amateur actor himself, agreed to find the fees. Spouse: Roger Moore (11 April 1969 – 29 April 1996) ( divorced) ( 3 children) Third wife of Roger Moore. email digishowbiz@the-sun.co.uk or call us direct on 02077824220, Met Office issue flood warnings as UK battered by torrential rain and gales, Five signs England faces post-Xmas lockdown as hospitals near first wave peak, New NHS tool helps you find out Covid cases at YOUR local hospital, 'Papa Smurf' paedo who toured schools with toy collection jailed for child rape, Official coronavirus R rate up again - and hits 1.2 across UK, ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. Share this article … They were married in 1946, when Moore was 18, at Wandsworth Town Hall. Once, she emptied a pot of tea over his head. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. He dismissed his success as 99 per cent luck, with the remaining 1 per cent a scrap of talent he was lucky to have. In 2008, Moore published his autobiography, My Word Is My Bond, which revealed little more than his gift for the priceless anecdote. He was also well known for playing Simon Templar in the television show The Saint.He began his career by becoming a male model. The movie star was married four times and claims he suffered domestic abuse as the hands his first two wives. Sir Roger Moore, who has died aged 89, claimed his only talent was for 'walking in front of cameras' and used to joke that he had just three expressions: left eyebrow up, right eyebrow up, and both eyebrows up at the same time. His first film was Caesar And Cleopatra, released in 1945, with Vivien Leigh. As the producer, Monty Berman, signalled 'Why?' At a BAFTA dinner in 1968, the compere Kenneth More made a friendly joke about Moore and 'his wife, who is much more attractive than he is'. Her father, Roger Moore, was an English actor best known for playing British secret agent James Bond in seven feature films. Sir Roger George Moore KBE CBE (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor and a UNICEF ambassador. He also had a great face for close-ups at a time when most shows consisted of cuts from face to face because TV screens were so tiny. I rely on Kristina totally. She was previously married to Roger Moore. Following Sean Connery's departure from the Bond franchise, producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman turned to British TV star, Roger Moore, to fill those rather large shoes. The numerous TV shows and films he starred in were the envy of his peers; from the Fifties hit Western series Maverick, to swashbuckling in Ivanhoe, Swinging Sixties stardom in The Saint, and Seventies savoir faire in The Persuaders — and, of course, the ultimate big screen role, James Bond. She stoked gossip further by hurling abuse at Moore and Luisa whenever she could — on one occasion, smashing the French windows of the home the couple shared. For starters, he never drove the iconic Aston Martin that all the other Bonds have driven. She threw a pot of tea at me. Speaking to Piers Morgan on his Life Stories TV show in 2012, he said: "It made a change because normally she punched me.”. Tired of arguments with the volatile Luisa, with whom he had two sons and a daughter, he left her in 1993, abandoning her at Geneva airport and later phoning to say he was in a relationship with her closest friend, a Swedish widow and socialite named Kristina 'Kiki' Tholstrup whom he married in 2002. Because this meant filming in South Africa, under apartheid, British trade unions threatened to blacklist all Moore's future movies. He preferred less flashy vehicles like the Citroën 2CV 6, the Alpha Romeo GTV 6 and the 1976 Lotus Espirit. Sir Roger with his third wife, explosive Italian actress Luisa Mattioli. Emotional Eamonn Holmes and wife Ruth Langsford fight back tears as they bid farewell to This Morning on... New eye test that uses AI to study retina scans can predict macular degeneration three YEARS before symptoms... My Word is My Bond: The Autobiography eBook: Sir Roger Moore: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store. Simon visits a San Francisco hotel and steps into a blackmailing frame-up which leads to murder. I waited for them to dry. Then came his favourite, The Spy Who Loved Me. Instead, Live And Let Die became the most successful Bond movie: made for about £4 million, it took £75 million at the box office. Her granddaughter Ambra Moore is also an actress. Moore's job was to take the cans of film to an Army office in nearby Mayfair — where, by a long coincidence, the technical adviser was another future movie star of quintessential Englishness, a Lieutenant-Colonel David Niven. The Saint was a ladies' man who behaved impeccably, even when he was being a cad. By 1970, with The Saint finished, Moore was driving an Aston Martin DBS on screen as yet another insouciant English swashbuckler, Lord Brett Sinclair in The Persuaders, opposite Tony Curtis. Shortly after his divorce, Roger married Welsh singer Dorothy Squires, who he had met the previous year. 'I chose the one that paid the most.'. 'It was not a difficult decision,' he said. Luisa, of course, was still not his wife. He spoke no Italian and she spoke no English, but 'language was no barrier,' he said. Similarly, her mother, Luisa Mattioli, is an Italian actress. While he was a star in England and America thanks to his six seasons on "The Saint," Moore was roundly criticized even before his first Bond film as being too much of a lightweight to play the role. The COVID-19 VACCINE: Protecting YOU and the rest of the UK. Moore left Doorn - real name Lucy Woodard - in 1953 but said he had to pretend to have a fling with a friend's wife to get a divorce. He spoke no Italian and she spoke no English, but 'language was no barrier,' Moore said wryly, and Luisa soon became pregnant. Squires met the actor Roger Moore at one of her parties at her mansion in Old Bexley, Kent. He claimed he had never sat through one of his own Bond movies — 'not something I'd pay 3s 9d to watch' — and that Connery and Daniel Craig had far outshone him in the role. Geoffrey Moore’s mother is Luisa Mattioli, an actress and Roger Moore’s third wife. Roger was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for his services to charity and he is a … Moore and Luisa separated in 1993 and shortly afterwards he began a relationship with Swedish born Danish socialite Kristina "Kiki" Tholstrup. He inherited the role of British spy “James Bond, 007” from Sean Connery, beginning with “Live and Let Die” (1973) and concluding with “View to a Kill”. Her father was of Irish and German descent and her mother was of English and Irish ancestry. In a red toga and sandals, Moore — by now a strapping, blue-eyed youth — caught the eye of director Brian Desmond Hurst. Moore achieved the television pinnacle when he was paid to direct as well as star in episodes. Squires, in a move that appalled even her close friends, refused to give her husband a divorce — and instead sued him for loss of conjugal rights. Moore married Mattioli in 1969, and they remained married until 1996. Critics compared it to David Niven's acclaimed memoir, The Moon's A Balloon. ', It was during this time, that Moore made his first phone call to Squires in two decades. They were from Luisa and graphic proof of her husband's infidelity. He was 89 years old. On Tuesday, British actor Roger Moore, best known for portraying Simon Templar of the 1960s series The Saint and the spy character James Bond, died in … When Sir Roger Moore passed away in May this year at the age of 89, much was written about the four-times-married James Bond star’s dazzling life … His co-star was Luisa Mattioli, 28, beautiful, emotionally explosive … exactly the sort of girl Moore couldn't resist. Squires went with him but, with her young husband surrounded by starlets in California, she soon became ferociously jealous. Directed by Ernest Morris. He refused to be seen enjoying violence; instead, his Bond became imbued with Moore's own sense of fun. Moore was besotted, even learning to ice skate to be near her. The crew collapsed, the take was ruined. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Squires found letters from Luisa to Roger and planned to include them in her autobiography but they won injunctions against their publication in 1977. She had appeared in several films under her professional name Doorn Van Steyn (her real name was Lucy Woodard). With Roger Moore, Barry Jones, Jeanne Moody, Jacqueline Ellis. The character might have been invented for him: at his father's urging, Moore had tried to buy the rights to the books. Roger Moore’s daughter Deborah gets signs James Bond star is watching over her. On their return to England, Moore, now with American polish and sophistication, got his first West End part. Bond didn't come his way until 1973 when he was 45 and he threw himself into a fitness regime, worried that the public would never accept him as Connery's replacement, and that his limitations as an actor would now be exposed world-wide. I remember, to avoid confrontation, I used to strum the guitar and one day I was sitting on the edge of the table strumming and she was ranting on about something and I wasn’t taking any notice. 'My attitude was to share the joke with the audience — my Bond was a lover and a giggler.'. None of this damaged Moore's career in the slightest. The yawning gulf in years between Squires and her boyishly handsome husband did not help. The marriage was doomed.”. Actor. Show her this letter.'. Her parties were famous for excess and sex, and Squires took an instant shine to the handsome jobless, 24-year-old who was 12 years her junior. Though the actress was Roger's wife for 15 years, his longest marriage was to third spouse Luisa Mattioli, whom he divorced in 2002, 33 years after they tied the knot. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. He smoothed away the character's cruel streak and replaced it with wry humour. To avoid arguments, which he hated, Moore took up the guitar: when his wife started shouting, he would strum chords and ignore her. Moore was an only child, born on October 14, 1927, and brought up in a two-bedroom flat in Albert Square, Stockwell, in South-West London. When we are travelling for my job she is the one who packs. It was his turn as Templar that confirmed Moore as TV's most glamorous leading man and an international star. It read: 'Because my d*** is caught in the door.' ': Boris Johnson APOLOGISES for his hair and insists he 'does his best with it' after... What Christmas getaway? One year ago today we lost a man who was so very special to so very many people. Desperate to pay his way, he decided to try his luck on screen as an extra. But, secretly, Roger Moore loved being 007. He was also a fierce campaigner for animal rights. He never tired of being recognised as the character, and was delighted to be addressed as 'Mr Bond'. 'Don't forget to invite Roger Moore and his mother,' was one of the crueller jokes among the Hollywood set. Wife number one, the ice skater and actress Doorn Van Steyn who he met at RADA and married at Wandsworth Town Hall. He later settled the divorce from Luisa for £10 million. SIR Roger Moore has died aged 89, leaving behind his wife Kristina “Kiki” Tholstrup who he wed in 2002. One night, she smashed it over his head. I thought, ‘What a cow, I’m leaving her and she’s having a bath’. Squires hadn't forgiven him either. He is probably the most well known for playing fictional spy James Bond in seven movies from 1973 to 1985. Forced to endlessly tour as an ice-skater to pay their bills, she was disappointed in him as a husband and actor. Devised as an action comedy, the show sometimes veered into farce. Moore was one of the most notorious practical jokers in the movie business as director and co-stars, including Clint Eastwood discovered, often to their cost. She reached through the glass and grabbed my shirt and she cut her arms doing it...The police came and they said, 'Madam, you're bleeding' and she said, 'It's my heart that's bleeding'.". He had no need: a tax exile living in the South of France, in Monaco, and in the ski resort of Crans-Montana in Switzerland, he preferred his role as a Unicef ambassador — his commitment to charity earning him a knighthood in 2003. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Now moving Sir Roger Moore’s relationship life, he was married 4 times first with Doorn Van Steyn from 1946 till 1953, second Dorothy Squires from 1953 till 1968), third Luisa Mattioli from 1969 till 1969 and Kristina Tholstrup married on 2002 until Moore’s death 2017. Roger Moore and Kristina were friends for twenty years before marrying Credit: PA:Press Association Kristina Tholstrup, also known as Kiki, is a Swedish-born Danish socialite. Wife number two, singer Dorothy Squires who sued for conjugal rights. Tier 3 lockdown hammers central London as stores suffer nearly 70% plunge in... 'Alarmingly high' proportion of British people from ethnic minorities are severely deficient in vitamin D... Welsh first minister Mark Drakeford blames people's 'selfish' behaviour for forcing fresh lockdown as he... How lockdown comfort eating saw shoppers spend £2.5BILLION more on booze and meat: Britons splashed out on... Hospitality industry is facing 'hugely damaging' Covid-19 restrictions... but figures reveal it accounts for... Are hospitals REALLY creaking under the strain of Covid before Christmas? To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Four more outings as Bond followed, ending with A View To A Kill. Genealogy profile for Roger Moore Roger Moore (1939 - 2011) - Genealogy Genealogy for Roger Moore (1939 - 2011) family tree on Geni, with over 190 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. I knew that I could depend on him. Moore replied: 'This is the one.' He was a sickly boy and, aged five, fell ill with a fever so bad that the GP told his parents: 'I'll be back in the morning to sign the death certificate'. Ann-Margret says by the third date with her husband, 77 Sunset Strip star Roger Smith, she knew he was the one. He proved ideal for the conveyor belt of television, word perfect and never temperamental. 'He dead to me,' she said of Moore. The films were dismissed by movie snobs as expensive hokum, but Moore's humour defused the criticism. Leading actresses clamoured to be seduced by him on screen — Julie Christie, Shirley Eaton, Kate O'Mara and Jane Asher were all Saint girls. He is perhaps best known for playing British secret agent James Bond in the official film series for seven films between 1973 and 1985. 'I mean, who doesn't know how to laugh?'. After Bond, he rarely worked. One letter allegedly described Luisa's wish to lick Moore all over, adding: 'You say Dorothy does not believe in our love. The couple had three children together, Deborah, Geoffrey and Christian. Smiling Gillian Anderson is seen for the first time since splitting from The Crown creator Peter Morgan... Swarovski loses its sparkle: Plunging profits caused by the pandemic and Chinese competition sparks a bitter... 'Our job was to find weird excuses not to remove them': PornHub moderators, who watched 1,200 videos A DAY,... Is Maria Sharapova set for a 'royal' wedding? British Actor Roger Moore was born Roger George Moore on 14th October, 1927 in Stockwell, London, England, UK and passed away on 23rd May 2017 Crans-Montana, Switzerland aged 89. Sir Roger Moore married four times - to fellow actor Doorn Van Steyn, then Dorothy Squires, then Luisa Matitoli and finally, Kristina Tholstrup, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS. Sir Roger George Moore KBE, cunoscut ca Roger Moore, (n. 14 octombrie 1927, County of London[*] , Regatul Unit – d. 23 mai 2017, Crans-Montana[*] , Elveția) a fost un actor englez, cel mai cunoscut ca interpret al personajului James Bond (între 1972 și 1985), un agent secret britanic ficțional (007) creat de Ian Fleming, respectiv al personajului principal de ficțiune din serialul Sfântul. Moore nurtured his talent all the way to mega-stardom. It was proof that her young husband was a star in the ascendant. X — Sir Roger Moore (@sirrogermoore) May 23, 2018. However, there were tensions in their marriage due to the age difference and they moved back to the UK in 1963. “I knew he would protect me. 'RIP my 007': Bond girls Jane Seymour and Britt Ekland pay... 'My world will never be the same again': 'Devastated'... 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His acting career stalled following national service and by 1950, he had resorted to posing as a knitwear model, and was living in one room with Doorn in her parents' house. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. 'All we ever did was row,' Moore later said. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. She had a great temper.”. And when the satirical puppet show Spitting Image made a latex caricature of him that did nothing but wiggle its eyebrows, it was Moore who laughed louder than anyone. Hr parents married in 1969 and divorced in 1996. Sir Roger with his fourth wife, Swedish-born socialite Kristina 'Kiki' Tholstrup, with whom he lived in Monaco, She refused to believe it until she intercepted letters addressed to Moore from Italy and had them translated. She sued him for loss of conjugal rights but he refused to return to her within 28 days as ordered by the court. Sir Roger Moore: James Bond actor 'beaten up by first two wives' Sir Roger Moore, the James Bond actor, has disclosed how he suffered domestic violence at the hands of … 'It was bizarre,' he mused later. As a child, however, he was too tall, chubby and cripplingly shy. Jeho matka byla dcerou britského důstojníka a otec pracoval jako policista. They travelled to New York in luxury on the Queen Mary, but since Moore's divorce from Doorn Van Steyn — she learned he'd left her after she returned from a tour — had not been finalised, he went in the guise of her manager. Rosemary Clooney was born in Maysville, Kentucky, the daughter of Marie Frances (née Guilfoyle) and Andrew Joseph Clooney.She was one of five children. His retort was to make the movie with a crew of black and white technicians, defying the government's racist laws: it was, he believed, a far better way to confront apartheid. He is most remembered for The Saint/James Bond. And his acting style was unique, too — no other actor had such a narrow range and yet did so much with it and to such effect. Through Squires's contacts, he quickly got TV work and roles on Broadway. The END of the West End? Roger left Squires for Luisa in 1961 while he was filming The Rape Of The Sabine Women in Italy but she refused to accept their split. I’d been sunbathing in the garden, I came up and I’d taken off my pants and I gave her some smart Alec answer and this teapot came hurtling at me. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed, Sir Roger Moore is survived by his wife Kiki Tholstrup, who he wed in 2002, Roger said his first wife Doorn Van Steyn was abusive and once threw a teapot at his head, Sir Roger Moore with his second wife Dorothy Squires, Roger left his second wife Dorothy Squires for Italian actress Luisa Mattioli, who died today following a short battle with cancer, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Now he is nobody. Moore in the Man with the Golden Gun. Squires suffered numerous miscarriages during their marriage and Moore admitted things could have been different between them if they'd been able to have children. Today marks a whole year since Sir Roger Moore passed away. It was at RADA that 17-year-old Roger Moore met his first wife, an ice-skater, who was six years older and had a toddler son. Luisa refused to grant him a divorce until they agreed on a £10million settlement in 2000. Ivanhoe's success led to renewed interest from America in 1959 and a role in The Alaskans — a show that sounded the death knell for his marriage to Squires. Mladého Rogera Moorea od mládí zajímalo umění a proto nastoupil jako kreslíř u firmy v Soho,… And so was his whole life — the most successful and enjoyable joke in cinema, for the actor and his fans alike. Roger George Moore se narodil 14. října 1927 ve Stockwellu, v jižním Lonýně. Teaching union slams Government's 'undeliverable' plans for mass Covid-19 testing in schools from January as... Who's bright idea was that? ROGER MOORE, who passed away at the age of 89 in 2017, was married four times and after his second divorce, the James Bond star’s three children were reportedly not talking to him. The James Bond star, who died today following a short battle with cancer, married four times and claimed he suffered domestic abuse as the hands his first two wives. But for a time she was mollified when Moore took over from James Garner on the hit western Maverick. “So I smashed the bathroom door open and she had all my clothes in the bath and said, ‘Now leave me’. Luisa reacted much as Squires had before her. Cyfweliad a'r actor Roger Moore yn 1963Mae'r hawlfraint i'r archif yn berchen i ITV Cymru/Wales. Roger Moore with his wife Luisa Mattioli and their children. She unsuccessfully sued him for loss of earnings but Moore paid her hospital bills after she underwent cancer treatment in 1996 and when she died in 1998. Moore also claimed she threw a brick at him when she discovered his affair with Italian actress Luisa Mattioli, who went on to become his third wife. Maverick was hugely popular in Italy, and in 1961 Moore flew to Rome — while Squires was on tour in Australia — to play Romulus in Il Ratto Delle Sabine, the mythical story of the Rape of the Sabine Women. Moore worked opposite Clint Eastwood, who once confided that he wasn't able to laugh on cue. His father was a police officer (bobby), his mother was a homemaker, Roger took a liking to art and painting during his youth. Moore was bemused: think of something funny, he suggested. 'He seriously mad. Roger Moore. That night, I ended up a bit drunk (not that I'm blaming that on Roger Moore! They settled back in London, but Moore did not dare tell Squires he'd left her. She later said, "it started with a squabble, then he carried me off to bed." Sir Roger Moore best known acting as James Bond The Saint and Brett Sinclair in The Persuaders. Recalling the suave actor's poignant words near the end of his life, Deborah Moore … Moore's professional break came, not on stage or set, but at a drunken party at the Bexley mansion in Kent of singer Dorothy Squires, then the most famous female solo star in the world. Sir Roger Moore played iconic spy James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985, beginning with Live and Let Die and ending with A View to a Kill. For other inquiries, Contact Us. 'I always played the part for laughs,' he insisted. Roger Moore, who starred in the iconic James Bond movie franchise in the 1970s and '80s, has died after a "short but brave battle with cancer," his children said. In 1946, at the age of 18, Sir Roger Moore wed fellow RADA student Doorn Van Steyn , who was six years older than him. He played James Bond more times than any other actor. The actor said being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1993 was "life-changing" and caused him to reassess his marriage. She ruined the guitar. Their short marriage was incredibly turbulent and Roger claimed she hit him with a teapot, scratched and punched him and once even punched his doctor as he tended to her husband's slashed hand. He never forgot how his father, George, a policeman, once described him as 'a sack of s*** tied up round the middle with ugly'. Another time, she dumped his clothes in the bath. After seven years, Squires finally granted him a divorce and he married Luisa in 1969. But his irrepressible humour caused problems. May his legacy and memory never fade. Squires was 13 years his senior and after their wedding in New York in 1953,  they moved to the US to pursue their acting careers. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. Roads stay quiet with less than half of last year's 17m drivers travelling as survey... Sweden's facemask U-turn: Prime Minister makes coverings mandatory on public transport in defiance of virus... 'Do they know its Covid time at all?' Moore left school at 15 and, with a talent for drawing, went to work at a Soho movie publicity house as a trainee animator making war-time propaganda films. In one episode, Moore played Lord Brett and three of his relatives — a mad general, a bad-tempered admiral and Lady Agatha, Brett's aunt. In July 1953, they wed in front of a very 'drunken justice of the peace' in New Jersey. He said: "She threw a brick through my window. Moore married Kiki in 2002 and described her as "organised, serene, loving, calm" saying: "I have a difficult life. Moore, who was 12 years her junior, later became her husband when they married in New Jersey on 6 July 1953. She was smitten and vowed to make him a star in America, putting her own career on hold. Kristina takes care of all that. After that court case, she gave up and granted Moore his divorce. Roger George Moore Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Sir Roger George Moore, Template:Post-nominals (born 14 October 1927) is an English actor. Before its release and uncertain of its success, Moore took on another role in the a film adaptation of a Wilbur Smith novel, Gold. Isla Williams Saturday 14 Sep 2019 3:14 pm. Hurst saw a potential leading man and urged the boy to apply to drama college. Roger Moore had an encounter with Wenche Myhre (1963).. Roger Moore is rumoured to have hooked up with Madeline Smith.. About. Moore flipped the paper over. It wasn't until the late Fifties, that Moore, then, 31, got his first starring role — on British TV in the swords-and-chivalry series Ivanhoe. 'You'll never be a star,' she told him scathingly. ", Got a story? 'Eerily,' he said, 'when I dragged up, I looked like my own mother.'. It became a challenge, with Roger the compulsive prankster doing everything he could to make Eastwood even crack a smile. In every role, he was essentially the same, a gentleman adventurer. Instead, it fell to his GP back in Bexley to break the news. 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