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One time I got so drunk in the Soho theatre in London that I fell asleep in the disabled toilet for two hours. People still call the toilet Rosie’s Bedroom.
I did a corporate gig early in my career, and they opened the buffet in the middle of my set and everybody left.
The Fake Sheikh did a sting on me once and the News of the World headline was “Craig Charles is an evil drug-pushing monster”. That wasn’t good on the school run, I’ll tell you that.
I once asked a young woman if she had ever heard of the musician Laura Marling, insinuating I knew Laura Marling, to which she replied: “I am Laura Marling.”
Last summer, swimming in a waterfall in Cumbria with my daughters.
Interrupting or talking over people. As a stammerer, I am particularly alert to this.
“You’ll never walk again.” This was when I was eight or nine and recovering from viral encephalitis.
To keep going and never give up, and to enjoy it to the absolute full because, at any moment, the curtain can fall.
Last week, while I was wet-wrapping my child’s chronic eczema.
All my clothes are secondhand, but I did buy a pair of new silver Vivienne Westwood shoes to get married in, which I still have.
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