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I was a terrible secretary in a publishing company (clumsy, disorganised, hid letters behind the filing cabinet because I was supposed to have done something with them and I wasn’t sure what).
The failed attempt at a home perm on myself in the 80s. I wanted to look like Kelly McGillis in Top Gun.
Telesales. I refused to wear a tie, but my argument that “They can’t see what we’re wearing” didn’t wash with the manager and I lasted a week.
The only job I quit was, aged about 23, subediting a “men’s” magazine. My job was typing out readers’ pornographic fantasies. I started wishing people would reproduce by splitting down the middle.
Sid Vicious doing My Way.
Last year, when I had all four kids – Daisy, Kingston, Zuma and Apollo – staying with me on my birthday. It was magical.
If I am still in the argument I’ve had in the day.
Funny and generous.
Sometimes it was disappointing not to have the fan base at home in the UK that we had elsewhere.
A picture: Cocky Patriot by Gilbert and George.
Adrian Edmondson, Alison Moyet, Bill Bailey, Björn Ulvaeus, Bryn Terfel, Chaka Khan
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