Jo Brand
English entertainer
Getting up the noses of a handful of truly horrible misogynists.
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My daughters and granddaughters.
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Ed Harris
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Other than being a decent father, Pollock.
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I’m still working on it.
Toyah Willcox
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Staying sane in a career path that tries endlessly to unnerve you.
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View profile →In school, I was 11, and we had to paint a picture of family life. My painting was held up to the class and I was told it looked like a spider with ink on its feet had walked across the page. It was done so viciously – humiliating.
Loving, creative, demanding.
Each time I gave birth.
In a Dagenham factory at 6am, picking soldiers’ greatcoats from wars around the world to sell at the market in Chelsea. I smelled like mothballs, and no one would come near me.
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Being let go from Strictly.
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