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Frederick Forsyth, 80, a former RAF pilot and foreign correspondent, is the author of novels including The Day Of The Jackal and The Odessa File. He lives in Buckinghamshire with his second wife, Sandy, and has two sons and four grandchildren.

My days of dodging bullets are well and truly over. Still, I’ve had an exciting life. I’ve seen around 70 countries, scuba-dived, gone game-fishing and been in a few firefights.

I’ve had exceptional luck to emerge without a scratch from some places. Bullets have missed me, bombs have fallen too far away to hurt me and mortars have landed almost at my feet.

Former RAF pilot and foreign correspondent Frederick Forsyth (pictured), 80, revealed how advice from his father to go out and get an interesting life influenced his decisions 

I believe a young man or woman is dye-stamped with their character between the ages of four and 18. In my case, the primordial influence in my boyhood was my father. He taught me his standards and they’ve never left me.

He told me: ‘Look, lad, you’ve only got one life. It’s not a rehearsal. Not one hour will ever be repeated. Make up your mind, young, what kind of life you want to have, then go for it. Basically, there are two choices: interesting or dull.’

I said: ‘Well, obviously, interesting.’

He said: ‘You’ve got to go for it. It won’t drop in your lap.’

He had travelled himself — five years as a rubber planter in Malaysia — but was by then a shopkeeper, a furrier, in Ashford, Kent. He liked the people he met on his travels, through the Middle East and Asia, enormously. He taught me to never despise anybody because they are different. He would say: ‘Hate does very little, but if you must hate something, hate bigotry, because it causes so much pain.’

Of course, I’ve made mistakes. In the Eighties, I was beggared by a broker I had thought a friend. I lost £2.2 million and owed a further £1 million on a mortgage he’d suggested. I was 51 and had to start over entirely.

But I’ve never backed off. In the Sixties, when I thought the BBC was being dishonest in its reporting of the Biafran War — being a government mouthpiece, effectively — I quit my job to go back into the field independently.

My father’s advice — if you want an interesting life, bloody well go out and get one — was good. I did. And I’m glad I did.

The Fox by Frederick Forsyth (Bantam Press, £20) is out in hardback.

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Main photo article Frederick Forsyth, 80, a former RAF pilot and foreign correspondent, is the author of novels including The Day Of The Jackal and The Odessa File. He lives in Buckinghamshire with his second wife, Sandy, and has two sons and four grandchildren.
My days of dodging bullets are well and truly over....

It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.

Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.

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