Adjoa Andoh
English actress
Cleaning men’s toilets in the Swan hotel in the Cotswolds.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I just hate to work, so I can’t choose one.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 June 2022 source ↗
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I was a Harrods store detective for a day. I was so bad at it, one of the other detectives thought I looked suspicious and reported me.
When I was a kid I had a Saturday job in the stockroom of a supermarket. I remember everything in there being a little bit grubby and slightly sticky. We’d do things like play rugby with a swiss roll. I think of it every time I go shopping.
Noel Clarke
English actor and filmmaker
Cleaning the changing rooms at Kensington leisure centre from the age of 16.
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At the moment, Ukraine’s president.
I’ve been awake almost my entire life. I have had insomnia since I was a child.
The moment I realised I knew how to read. I was five.
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