Acting, when you don’t want to do it or you disagree with everything, is almost like having sex with someone you don’t like. I had one experience like that on stage, in a terrible version of The Cherry Orchard. I put on a wig, dark-coloured contacts and just hoped no one would recognise me.
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View all 229 →I did work in retail while I was getting into presenting and the hours were long and you were always on your feet. It was good vibes, though.
At university, I worked at a hotel in housekeeping. We saw so many weird things in people’s rooms. Guests would leave sex and party stuff behind!
Working in a bottle factory, which lasted one day, and the Radio 1 breakfast show.
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View profile →My A-level results - I got two Cs and an A. I had applied to do philosophy at Cambridge, and thought my life was over.
To be looked at.
Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.
I didn’t learn to be intimate with people until I was in my 20s, so I was a very bad friend in my teens. There was a girl I was best friends with at college; I always used to kiss the boys she liked. I’d like to apologise to her.
Nothing – I don’t like music. I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.
I would be a bit nicer to myself.
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