Katharine Hamnett
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Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.
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The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’ve never had a job.
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Charles Dance
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Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.
Mucking out pigs on a farm when I was 15.
Being a cocktail waitress and having to wear a compromising dress in an unwoke 1990s world.
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Loss of control.
As an honest person who did his best.
I had quite a chequered childhood. I had a knife put to my throat once when I was a kid, which was very scary.
I bought a pink leader’s jersey from the 1953 Tour of Italy which belonged to Swiss rider Hugo Koblet. I spent £45,000.
This isn’t a complaint, but obscurity would be nice. You can’t have a bad day in public because everyone’s got phones.
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