Loving, odd, playful. Jeepers, I’ve described myself like a damaged rescue puppy.
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Enthusiastic, chaotic, bungling.
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I got sacked from TK Maxx for falling asleep under the coats.
When I was about two, I accidentally knocked a boiled kettle on myself. I am scarred, in many ways, from that.
I did say sorry to my mum, for being the way I was when I was a teenager. You become a parent and go, “Oh my God, this is what they were doing.”
“What is Seann Walsh and how do we make it die?” It was online, thankfully. It wasn’t in Sainsbury’s.
At school, I got my head stuck in a balustrade on the stairs at lunchtime. I had pupils laughing at me, parents laughing at me, teachers laughing at me and eventually, at the end of the day, the fire brigade laughing at me.
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