I get trolled on a daily basis so it probably involved my teeth, but that was until I learned to love my teeth.
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“You look like a fat Jack Whitehall.”
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“You’ll never walk again.” This was when I was eight or nine and recovering from viral encephalitis.
A radio presenter said I had yellow teeth – to my face. When I was 45, a manager in LA said I was too old to work in Hollywood; and then she rang my agent and said, “Can you tell your client never to wear that perfume again because it made me feel sick.”
A lady came up to me in Tesco last year and said, “Excuse me, but didn’t you used to be Roger McGough?”
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Mainly my devil dog.
Turning into my father.
I was hellbent on being a Thunderbird. I was devastated when my parents finally told me it was a fictional organisation. Ruined my 18th.
I was bumped as a guest on The Justin Lee Collins show for Bianca from EastEnders.
Tricking my dad into doing naked yoga.
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