Jennifer Hudson
American singer and actress
Professionally, receiving my first Grammy from Whitney Houston.
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What is the worst job you have done?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Strictly. I went into it thinking I would last two weeks!
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Clive Myrie
British journalist, newsreader, and presenter
Surviving this world.
Daphne Guinness
British socialite
My children obviously, but also my work.
Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
Becoming an actor at all, considering my background.
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View profile →To Kill a Mockingbird – I was meant to read it for an exam and I didn’t and I cheated. I was allowed to use a laptop to type my answers because I couldn’t see my writing, so I hid an electronic copy of the book on the laptop.
I’m judgmental.
Hard-working, resilient, irritating.
A lot of awful gigs. You can’t become a successful comedian without dying on your arse more times than you can remember.
My college years when I was 17 to 19, before the responsibilities of adulthood, just doing the things that I was good at and liked – computers, maths, further maths (I was a geek).
Loud and noisy.
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