Katharine Hamnett
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Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.
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Horrible gigs at the beginning, when no one’s interested.
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Martin Kemp
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Gary and I worked in a greengrocer’s on Saturdays and in the holidays. One of my jobs was cooking beetroot – it used to make me gag.
Clearing up someone’s sick – it was on police duty.
At university, I worked at a hotel in housekeeping. We saw so many weird things in people’s rooms. Guests would leave sex and party stuff behind!
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I haven’t stopped crying since Glastonbury, because I’m on a massive comedown.
Now, with time and wisdom you know your happy places.
“Your career will be over if you have the baby.”To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why? My parents, for my teenage years. I tried to run away when I was 15. We lived in a fishing village in France and, with my boyfriend, I headed to Spain to sell arts and crafts on the beach. Mum came and took me home.
I would put the brain that I have now into my 20-year-old body.
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