Jenna Coleman
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After Emmerdale, babysitting. I freaked out – I couldn’t believe people put me in charge of their children.
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I quite enjoyed all my retail jobs (I worked in H&M and Gap), but the worst times were the sale periods. The summer sales – awful.
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Shane MacGowan
Irish singer-songwriter
Helping to slaughter farmyard animals as a kid; watching while my aunties cut them up to get their guts out and seeing eggs floating around in the hens. That made me become a vegetarian.
In a Dagenham factory at 6am, picking soldiers’ greatcoats from wars around the world to sell at the market in Chelsea. I smelled like mothballs, and no one would come near me.
Michael Ball
English singer, presenter and actor
Handing out leaflets for a European coach trip wearing just lederhosen, in February and March in Surrey. It was freezing, and I got fired.
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Nothing’s guaranteed and things change in an instant, and to get used to that and stay in the moment.
Probably all of them because I am not big into English literature. I read a lot of self-improvement books.
Sensitive, kind, silly.
Thinking about all the children that are affected by all the wars that are going on right now.
It happened when I was younger, somewhere outside London. We were on bikes, and this older girl pulled up and said something racist that I won’t repeat. I will never forget that, because it was the first time, and I was like, “Oh, I am feeling different from everyone around me right now”.
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