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Cleaning men’s toilets in the Swan hotel in the Cotswolds.
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Melanie Blatt
English singer
Horrible gigs at the beginning, when no one’s interested.
Helen George
English actress
Waitressing. I was so bad. I smashed things. I once mistakenly ordered a very expensive bottle of wine for a table. They thought they were ordering a very average bottle of wine, and I ordered them an £800 bottle and they drank it. I got the sack a few weeks later.
Martin Freeman
English actor
The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.
Rose Tremain
English writer
Working as the assistant to an agony aunt on a women’s magazine. When we didn’t get enough heartbreaking letters, we made them up.
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