Emma Bunton: What is the worst job you have done?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Emma Bunton said elsewhere, not written here

When I was younger, I appeared in the Halifax adverts that featured a cake or a bridge made of hundreds of people. You stood there for three days and were not even really seen.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 June 2021 source ↗

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Seann Walsh

I got sacked from TK Maxx for falling asleep under the coats.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 January 2026 source ↗

Kiefer Sutherland British and Canadian actor

I’ve been lucky enough to act for 35 years. The only other job I had was as a cook at a drive-in restaurant, and I enjoyed that as well.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2017 source ↗

Louis Theroux British and American journalist and author

There was a period in the early 2000s when I had been doing celebrity profiles and thought I’d lost my way creatively.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 November 2018 source ↗

Kevin Rowland British singer

I worked in the stores of Edgware hospital when I was about 17, and it was grey and depressing.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗

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Question How close have you come to death? Death & what remains

When I was seven or eight, I got run over and was actually under the car, which was scary. I just ran out; it was totally my fault. I was fine – all I got was a tiny scar on my knee.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 June 2021 source ↗