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I’ve liked all my jobs, amazingly.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 March 2020 source ↗
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Noel Clarke
English actor and filmmaker
Cleaning the changing rooms at Kensington leisure centre from the age of 16.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
British journalist
I did a terrible job of fixing the downstairs loo once.
Sue Perkins
British actress, singer, writer and comedian
Cleaning toilets in a hotel in Croydon when I was 16. A guest once gave me a half-eaten bag of pistachios as a tip, so there were perks.
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.
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The 2019 general election.
My all-girls’ high school. I hated it. Large groups of teenage girls aren’t known for their empathy and kindness. It was a shock to realise that people viewed me as uncool because of the way my body worked.
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