Omid Djalili
British stand-up comedian and actor
Selling low-grade cookery books in west London office buildings.
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’ve liked all my jobs, amazingly.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 March 2020 source ↗
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Tom Ellis
Welsh actor
When I was 17, I worked in a warehouse in Rotherham doing an audit of truck parts. I counted nuts and bolts all day long.
I’ve done some acting jobs where everybody’s gone out of their way to make sure that you feel annoying and easily replaceable.
Edith Bowman
Scottish radio DJ and television presenter
When I was a kid I was a chambermaid in my family’s hotel, and I once found a strap-on that someone had left behind.
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A never-ending hug.
My all-girls’ high school. I hated it. Large groups of teenage girls aren’t known for their empathy and kindness. It was a shock to realise that people viewed me as uncool because of the way my body worked.
I don’t own a property. The carpet in our flat; it’s not fancy or anything.
As the woman who never died.
The 2019 general election.
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