Adeel Akhtar
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In Brooklyn, I was a dishwasher in a sandwich shop.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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When I was a teenager, I worked in a vegetable shop on Saturdays, and the guy had a rotation of 10 pretty teenagers working for him and was really sleazy. I only went twice because the second time he made me go up to his flat above the shop and clean his toilet, and he was watching me.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 September 2023 source ↗
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Francesca Martinez
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I’ve liked all my jobs, amazingly.
Hayley Squires
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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.
Peter Capaldi
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I have been pretty terrible in quite a lot of terrible things.
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View profile →I recently had a dramatic fall on stage in Hungary. It was a massive stage – I was miles away from the audience – and I didn’t expect there to be two monitors in the middle of it. I went completely arse over tit and landed on my chin. First, I felt shock, pain, embarrassment, and then I felt lucky that I didn’t break any teeth or bite through my tongue. I asked for an ice pack for my chin, got up and finished the set.
My problem with clothes. I’ve got an issue, haven’t I? I’m not a fella in a band who can turn up in his T-shirt and jeans. I’ve got the whole drama of what I’m going to wear: the hair, the makeup. All that preening and pruning that adds to the stress. I have begun to hate that perfectionist in me.
My car. I don’t even drive, but I bought a Toyota hybrid for my assistant.
The fact that I smoke.
Last week, because of an ear infection: I cried my eyes out when they put a big injection into my arse.
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