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I once had to dress up as [fast food chain] Supermac’s bunny during a St Patrick’s Day parade and shake people’s hands. Kids kept trying to take off my gloves and punching my bunny head. It was awful.
In my first job in film, a giant bloke dressed like a sumo wrestler asked me to get his G-string out of his arse. He said he couldn’t reach it.
When I was about 18, I worked on the chicken counter in a large supermarket, and every morning I had to pierce 64 birds on to industrial skewers to load up the rotisserie. That was very grim.
Fixing a municipal sewer pipe.
“You look like a fat Jack Whitehall.”
All of my hairstyles from the age of 16 to 25.
Turning into my father.
I was bumped as a guest on The Justin Lee Collins show for Bianca from EastEnders.
I was hellbent on being a Thunderbird. I was devastated when my parents finally told me it was a fictional organisation. Ruined my 18th.
I dislike dawdlers. When I walk, I do so with purpose. I have no time for people shuffling along.
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