David Hasselhoff
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Selling fire alarms at 18 or 19.
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In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
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John Simpson
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Reading the news. It’s a dull job.
Greg James
British author, broadcaster, comedian, and presenter
When I was at school, I had a summer job where I had to buff blocks of plastic for a display unit. The factory only remembered to give us masks on day three.
Tom Ellis
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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.
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View profile →In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
Rolf Harris – he let us all down.
A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.
A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
To my first real boyfriend, for being so mean to him. But really I was just being mean to myself.
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