A shoot with a showbusiness icon who I’d loved all my life and shall remain nameless. She walked into the room and immediately said she hated everything. Things went downhill from there. Rough day.
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I just hate to work, so I can’t choose one.
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.
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I don’t know, because I spend like a man with three arms. I am always spending on clothes; I like to have things made.
When the babies were born, in March 2017.
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Convincing my wife to marry me and have children with me.
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