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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
When I was 15, I conned my way into an office job at a company that represented makers of breast implants. The manager had a wart on the end of her tongue that she’d push against her teeth, making a very specific sound.
On a cosmetics production line. I walked out after half a day.
I’ve never had a job.
Once, I was MC at a Christmas gig in Romford and a woman threw a dildo at my face.
I bought a pink leader’s jersey from the 1953 Tour of Italy which belonged to Swiss rider Hugo Koblet. I spent £45,000.
This isn’t a complaint, but obscurity would be nice. You can’t have a bad day in public because everyone’s got phones.
Never going back to the Tour de France and trying to win again.
When my second child Bella was born in 2006. I missed my son Ben being born because I was racing, so seeing it for the first time was quite an experience.
I had quite a chequered childhood. I had a knife put to my throat once when I was a kid, which was very scary.
As an honest person who did his best.
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