A radio presenter said I had yellow teeth – to my face. When I was 45, a manager in LA said I was too old to work in Hollywood; and then she rang my agent and said, “Can you tell your client never to wear that perfume again because it made me feel sick.”
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
“I’ll tell you later.” They never do.
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“And for you, sir?” It happens a lot.
Somebody once told me I was the spitting image of David Cameron.
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Avoidance coping.
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.
You have to ride the wave and never wait for it to be calm, because it never will be.
I didn’t email my grandfather enough before he passed away.
Rapping the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme on national television.
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