The Loose Women ladies have been discussing their first ever jobs – with Jane Moore explaining she used to serve up pints of maggots while she was working in a newsagent.
The 59-year-old broadcaster has a long and illustrious career as a journalist having written articles, columns and reports for The Sun, The Sunday Times and Hello magazine over the years.
Long before she found fame in the column inches and on screen, however, Jane had a job working as a paper delivery person before graduating to become a newsagent.
Reflecting on her early work life, Jane surprised and repulsed her fellow Loose Women colleagues when she recalled serving up pints of maggots to willing customers as part of her job.
She said during Monday’s edition of the show: “I had a paper round, very early in the morning.
“And then I went to work in the actual shop. It as called The Modern Newsagents.”
The cameras then cut to a photo of Jane at the newsagents – which is still serving members of the public in Worcester.
The broadcaster was proudly standing outside the glass entrance doors with her arms folded while the name of the shop was above her head, an ATM cash machine was positioned on the wall to the left of the snap, and a a sign listing the goods on sale inside the shop was plastered on the wall to the right of the snap.
Jane explained: “I went back recently – there I am outside. On the right hand side of the shop it was a newsagents, and on the other side, where the cash machine now is, it was a fishing tackle shop.
“So I had to alternate between the two and people used to come in and go; ‘Can I get a pint of maggots?’
“I would have to go into the basement and there was a big fish tank with all these writhing maggots in.”
She then animatedly demonstrated holding up a pint glass, scooping up maggots from a box, adding them to a bag, and rolling the bag up.
She said during her amateur dramatics demonstration: “And with a big pint glass, I’d have to dip my hand in, pint of maggots, into the brown paper bag, roll it up and ‘there you go.’
“And in the summer they would all turn into blue bottles flapping around.”
A disgusted Gloria Hunniford then commented: “I think the paper round was better than that.”
While panel host Ruth Langsford asked: “I hope they paid you well?”
But Jane swiftly declared: “No!”
Jane then went on to recall the first celebrity she ever interviewed – with the late Les Dawson being the first famous face she had a face-to-face chat with.
She said: “I remember sitting there thinking; ‘Oh my god I’m interviewing a celebrity!’ And I was so nervous.
“But I think, in anything, you have quite a few defining moments. Things where you make the next step of your job and you get a call.”
She recalled the moment she was first given an opinion column in a newspaper, and gushed: “It’s what I really, really wanted. And I wasn’t expecting.”
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