Someone said that I had a laugh like Jimmy Carr.
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Called me the N-word.
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View all 129 →On X, I am regularly called a traitor, a fraud, a grifter, a weakling, a narcissist, a coward and a child molester.
They tend to say it behind my back.
“You’re not in Busted any more.” I successfully auditioned to be in Busted and then a couple of days later I got a phone call to say that I was no longer needed as they were going to keep it as the three of them. But it ended up being OK.
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View profile →A really bad habit of eating sweets before I go to sleep.
I find it difficult to sit still.
I would really love to know my parents as an adult. I lost my dad when I was 14 and my mum when I was 20.
I was a happy kid. I had quite a small life: I grew up in Walthamstow and didn’t really leave east London. I didn’t go to the South Bank for the first time until I was 18 years old.
In order to raise money to pay for myself to go to the National Youth Theatre, I performed a medley of my drama school speeches and some songs for my entire school. Considering I can’t sing, this was terrible. I did U Remind Me by Usher and Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T’s. They paid £2 each – basically, to laugh at me.
After losing my mum still managing to finish drama school, because that was really difficult. I lost her in the first year.
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