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Loading... That's Me in the Corner: Adventures of an Ordinary Boy in a Celebrity Worldby Andrew Collins
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I read the two previous Andrew Collins books and enjoyed both of them as I could identify with the 70s and 80s in which the books are set. However, this book, the 3rd, is probably the weakest of the trilogy as it is a slightly random trawel through Collins' work history, and although some of the anecdotes are quite funny, there is a slight hint of desperation about the whole thing. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Fast approaching his fortieth birthday, Andrew is cornered at a family gathering by the nine-year-old son of his brother-in-law's sister. Having seen him as a talking head on TV, the boy asks, 'What are you?' It is a question so frank and simple that Andrew doesn't have an immediate answer to hand. So, with hilarious self-deprecation, he sets out to retrace how he got to where he is today. Seventeen precarious jobs in seventeen years: from trolley collector at Sainsbury's to high-flying film critic sipping cocktails with Will Smith and Jerry Bruckheimer on a yacht in Cannes. This is Andrew's tale of rubbing shoulders with the world's biggest stars: pissing off Christini Ricci, having his hairstyle mocked by Noel Gallagher, trying not to wake Clive James from his afternoon nap, having his apple pie eaten by Bob Geldof, and somehow stumbling into the next dream job. Along the way, he's been the world's worst gossip columnist, an almost-hip young gunslinger at the NME, a Radio 1 DJ (enduring a hellish Radio 1 roadshow in a car park in Birmingham), an ITV presenter, EastEnders scriptwriter, ghost writer for a major TV personality and much, much more.It charts a world of hedonism, mundanity, towering egos, shallow idiocy and occasional moments of mind-blowing joy. And, of course, being sent shit in a box. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)941.085092History and Geography Europe British Isles Historical periods of British Isles 1837- Period of Victoria and House of Windsor 1945-1999 History, geographic treatment, biography BiographyRatingAverage:
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