Noel Clarke
English actor and filmmaker
Cleaning the changing rooms at Kensington leisure centre from the age of 16.
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Helping to slaughter farmyard animals as a kid; watching while my aunties cut them up to get their guts out and seeing eggs floating around in the hens. That made me become a vegetarian.
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