Carol Vorderman: What is the worst job you have done?

What is the worst job you have done?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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.

Recorded Carol Vorderman said elsewhere, not written here

Living in a campervan for a week with Timmy Mallett for a children’s TV show about 40 years ago.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2026 source ↗

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Charlotte Church Welsh singer-songwriter and actress

It was a double-edged sword, but being a major-label artist, I felt like a commodity, a thing to be sold.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗

Michael Ball English singer, presenter and actor

Handing out leaflets for a European coach trip wearing just lederhosen, in February and March in Surrey. It was freezing, and I got fired.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2023 source ↗

Hayley Squires English actress and playwright

I worked in a call centre. I would go clubbing on a Saturday with my brother and my mates, get home for five or six in the morning, and then have to be at work at 8am.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2020 source ↗

Shappi Khorsandi Iranian-born British comedian

Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed. I had a hangover, and it was all a bit much.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 February 2017 source ↗