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Cressida Cowell |

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Cressida Cowell: Hello. My name is Cressida Cowell. There's a few little interesting things about my name. One thing is that I'm married to Simon Cowell, but it's not that Simon Cowell. It's another Simon Cowell, not the one off X-Factor.

The other thing is about my name, Cressida, is that Cressida is a name that means "naughty woman." Yeah. It means "naughty woman" because Cressida -- there's a story in ancient history about Troilus and Cressida where Cressida behaves really badly.

I don't quite know whether my parents knew that was the meaning of the name, and I think I'm rather a good Cressida. I like to think of myself as a good Cressida, not a naughty Cressida. Yeah.

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