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I worked in a TGI Fridays when I was 19 and came to London for the first time. It was absolutely horrible and I got fired after two weeks.
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When I was a kid I was a chambermaid in my family’s hotel, and I once found a strap-on that someone had left behind.
When I worked at a dog food company shovelling the exterminated rats.
Bicycle courier: it was literally dicing with death on a minute-to-minute basis for 12 hours a day. It was terrifying and exhausting.
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I was knocked over by a taxi in Liverpool when I was seven. And I fell off the seventh storey of a car park when I was 10 and broke both legs, my collarbone and my arm.
My wife, Hannah. She’s amazing and keeps me in check. I met her 24 years ago at drama school.
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