Jodie Whittaker
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Working in a soap factory in Huddersfield. I was in my late teens, so I was basically hungover every day.
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Either shredding duck in a Chinese restaurant, or Oblivion.
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Tim Rice
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I worked at KFC, as a vegetarian, doing Friday and Saturday nights.
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Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.
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Being friends with all of the people I grew up with.
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