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To the British public generally. They know why.
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My dad’s family, for fake drowning when I was 12 on holiday in France – it caused such embarrassment that we had to leave. All because I wanted to get the inflatable ring off my brother. It still haunts me. I guess acting was always going to be my future.
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Some of my old teachers for disrupting lessons. I was the class clown.
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