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I was a door-to-door carpet-cleaning salesman. I thought my life was going to end, so I binned that after a day.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 December 2019 source ↗
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The worst was as a butcher, aged 17.
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View profile →As a wonderful husband and a great father, and somebody who inspired others to pursue their own dreams, like Fred Astaire inspired me.
Convincing my wife to marry me and have children with me.
I don’t know, because I spend like a man with three arms. I am always spending on clothes; I like to have things made.
Not doing as well as I’d hoped in dancing competitions. I was massively competitive and massively disappointed most of the time. It’s the same now.
When the babies were born, in March 2017.
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