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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 September 2020 source ↗
I did work in retail while I was getting into presenting and the hours were long and you were always on your feet. It was good vibes, though.
Potato-picking in my home town, Ballarat.
Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.
Scraping plates in a fish and chip cafe in Whitby.
My vain side would like to be remembered as someone who did good for others in some way. But I would be happy if my children remembered me.
Now. During the period of Covid, I have had the opportunity to rethink and I’ve got a new gift of cherishing now.
Warm and bubbly.
I spend most money on my garden.
When I had a bicycle accident when I was 24. I was on a bridge going down; the bicycle broke and I smashed to the ground, face first. I broke my jaw and my teeth, and had to have plastic surgery. It all took half a year and then, funnily enough, I got my first big job – a TV series – with what I thought of then as this big, ugly scar.
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