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A 12-hour nightshift at a toy factory in Southend.
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Victoria Derbyshire
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Working in a furniture factory in Warrington when I was 17. It was a summer job, and I had to cover the studs in the back of Chesterfield sofas with leather.
Working at a petrol station.
Gulliver’s Travels at Adelaide Fringe.
Peter Capaldi
Actor and director
I have been pretty terrible in quite a lot of terrible things.
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When I was doing my gold swimming badge. I had to get undressed in a swimming pool and had forgotten my gym kit, so the teacher gave me a kit two sizes too small. In the water, I got my arms up over my head to get the shirt off and they locked. I sank to the bottom of the pool and sat there until a girl jumped in and dragged me back up again.
Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
I am my biggest disappointment.
For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.
A television. I don’t care for things. When I moved, I downsized and threw away most of my possessions.
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