Judith Kerr
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Secretary to a lawyer. I was sacked after a week.
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Scraping plates in a fish and chip cafe in Whitby.
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Tom Ellis
Welsh actor
When I was 17, I worked in a warehouse in Rotherham doing an audit of truck parts. I counted nuts and bolts all day long.
I was a waitress at a holiday camp. On a Wednesday afternoon all the guys used to pee into the rice pudding and we had to serve it to the customers.
Kathy Lette
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Bedpan emptier in a hospital.
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I’d change my mindset and not be so hard on myself, and impart the knowledge that other people’s intentions aren’t always as well-meaning as my own.
Kind, fun and that I cared.
An actor – that’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. I went to stage school when I was 13.
I was in a car crash when I was 16, and I have a little scar on my face from smashing the passenger window with my head. If the car had rolled, I would have been dead.
Being a decent person.
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