Jack Whitehall
English comedian, actor, presenter and writer
“You look like a fat Jack Whitehall.”
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My old French teacher Madame Hawksworth stopped me in Ikley car park and said, 'We never thought you'd amount to much.'
Michael Odell, This much I know, The Observer, 14 August 2004 source ↗
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When I was a child, a member of staff at Wood End Assessment Centre [a former children’s home in Wigan] bellowed: “He copies them poems off of Bob Marley records.”
Adrian Scarborough
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On my professional stage debut, I heard my drama tutor moan, “Oh no” from the rear stalls as soon as I appeared.
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Eric Idle’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. That’s me, really.
My marriage has not been a drudge. But in 29 years there are times where it's not all excitement, thunderbolts and shooting stars. You have to think, 'I like you and I rate you,' and you'll ride it out.
I'm a cryer. The family has a competition to see who can get me going at Christmas. The last time I blubbed was on my birthday, when my daughter gave me a framed photo of my 15-month-old grandson Hugo, but I have been known to shed a tear at The Railway Children or Pretty Woman.
Rudeness, arrogance and inability to compromise.
I wish school career advisers were more aware of horticulture. They imagine it's just going out into public parks and pulling weeds up, not a career. But there is garden design, horticultural research, conservation – a whole gamut of angles which are overlooked.
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