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Laying down slabs for the council.
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I did a terrible job of fixing the downstairs loo once.
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Cleaning toilets in a hotel in Croydon when I was 16. A guest once gave me a half-eaten bag of pistachios as a tip, so there were perks.
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There was a period in the early 2000s when I had been doing celebrity profiles and thought I’d lost my way creatively.
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When I was younger, I appeared in the Halifax adverts that featured a cake or a bridge made of hundreds of people. You stood there for three days and were not even really seen.
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