Losing my marbles.
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Craig Charles
English actor
United Kingdom · b. 1964
Arts and letters
Born in Liverpool, Charles, 60, started performing poetry aged 17. In 1988 he began starring in Red Dwarf, the long-running science-fiction comedy series. He appeared in Coronation Street from 2005 to 2015 and his other TV work includes Robot Wars, Takeshi’s Castle, The Gadget Show and Moneybags. He has his own radio slot on weekdays and Saturdays on BBC 6 Music, and The Craig Charles Trunk of Funk Volume 3 is out now. He is married for the second time, has three children and lives on the Cheshire side of Greater Manchester.
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Cowardice. There are so many issues that I would like to express opinions about but I’m too scared to stick my head above the parapet because of the social media pile-on.
Selfishness and cruelty.
The Fake Sheikh did a sting on me once and the News of the World headline was “Craig Charles is an evil drug-pushing monster”. That wasn’t good on the school run, I’ll tell you that.
I was born in 1964, in the most working-class area of Liverpool, so the N-word was bandied around a lot.
To my parents for all the mess-ups. There have been times when I’ve been going through something and I’ve thought, God, I’m so glad my mum and dad are dead, because they don’t have to go through it with me.
A Rolls-Royce. I met my wife, Jackie, when I was filming a Lynda La Plante drama called The Governor. I fell in love with her instantly and I was bullshitting that I had a Rolls-Royce. When I finished filming, she decided to leave her country and come and live with me in London. On the way to the airport, I phoned my PA and said, “Go and buy a Rolls-Royce.”
Love makes me feel sick. I get sick with worry about my kids. It keeps me up at night.
Filming a TV show in a field in the snow in February in the Dublin hills for 14 hours; the director said, “We’re not going to get that shot today.”
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