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I cleaned the toilets at the local pub every Saturday morning.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
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Julien Macdonald
Welsh fashion designer
Working in a betting office on Grand National day. I was 17 and my hair was scrunched like Mick Hucknall’s.
Looking after the flowerbed on my windowsill.
Sofia Helin
Swedish actress
Acting, when you don’t want to do it or you disagree with everything, is almost like having sex with someone you don’t like. I had one experience like that on stage, in a terrible version of The Cherry Orchard. I put on a wig, dark-coloured contacts and just hoped no one would recognise me.
Working at a petrol station.
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View profile →I’ve been a strong advocate that all my five children should be great swimmers, so you can deduce what my fear is.
That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
Unfriendliness.
Full of passion and laughter.
One horrible afternoon in Chicago when I forgot my words in The Marriage of Figaro, in a role I’d sung hundreds of times.
I loved my 1 minute 40 seconds singing at the coronation of King Charles. I was the most nervous I’ve been.
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