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The back end of a horse in panto in Newcastle in 1979.
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What is the worst job you have ever had?Originally asked
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Helen George
English actress
Waitressing. I was so bad. I smashed things. I once mistakenly ordered a very expensive bottle of wine for a table. They thought they were ordering a very average bottle of wine, and I ordered them an £800 bottle and they drank it. I got the sack a few weeks later.
Fran Lebowitz
American author and public speaker
I just hate to work, so I can’t choose one.
Jenna Coleman
English actress
After Emmerdale, babysitting. I freaked out – I couldn’t believe people put me in charge of their children.
Louis Theroux
British and American journalist and author
There was a period in the early 2000s when I had been doing celebrity profiles and thought I’d lost my way creatively.
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Lack of confidence.
Premature demise.
That I wasn’t quite as arrogant when I got successful.
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