Hair and makeup: Juliana Sergot using Nars & Kiehl's Photograph: Alex Lake/The Observer
Mum was really into getting me and my brothers to try different foods. Which is why I resent any depictions of working-class people just eating Turkey Twizzlers because my mum used to bake us focaccia and stuff. She worked in Tesco on the checkout but she’d have Greek food nights for us. We were always the children with weird packed lunches.
I’ve never had a bread that I didn’t like. I even went to get hypnotised out of eating bread. [Fellow comedian] Lou Sanders went to the same woman to get hypnotised out of eating sweets. Then I was at Lou’s house for dinner and I couldn’t eat because I’d had a load of toast beforehand. And Lou was eating sweets as the starter. We were both like: “I don’t think the hypnotist has worked … ” So yeah, that’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever spent money on.
