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Award-winning folk singer and Scots-language advocate Iona Fyfe releases her latest single this month. In our Q&A, she fronts up about her love of Chihuahuas and war movies, and recalls that time she and her mum hounded poor Richard Madden
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Who would you like to see playing you in the movie about your life? Who do you think the casting people would choose? You know they apps that do the ‘what celebrity do you look like?’ Every time, it comes up with Saoirse Ronan. A few people have said I look like Saoirse. It’s a huge compliment. So, I guess, it would be Saoirse. She was ace as Mary Queen Of Scots, so I know she can nail the accent!
What’s the punchline to your favourite joke? Who has favourite jokes? If you were to return in a future life as an animal, what would it be? I could be tropey and say ‘a bird because then I could fly’, but in reality, I’d come back as a wee nippy Chihuahua. I love Chihuahuas. I actually met a now-close friend Sharon, through Borrow My Doggy. She let me borrow her Woody.