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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2019 source ↗
When I was 15, I conned my way into an office job at a company that represented makers of breast implants. The manager had a wart on the end of her tongue that she’d push against her teeth, making a very specific sound.
I worked in the customer services department of a mobile phone gambling company and it was very depressing, because the people calling up were usually not happy.
When I was young, selling maps to stars’ homes in Hollywood, somebody flashed their wiener at me. It was traumatising.
Potato-picking in my home town, Ballarat.
Being dad to my kids and having a family.
When I was a kid, travelling from Ethiopia to the UK, the plane door opened, the oxygen masks came down and the plane did an emergency landing in Egypt.
Probably my wife, because sometimes I do crazy things.
A mechanic when I was a little kid, and then, when I came to the UK, I wanted to play professional football.
Beijing 2008 – not making the Olympic final.
Peyton Manning, Laura Kenny, Simone Biles, Kevin Pietersen, Bradley Wiggins, Chris Bonington
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