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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Tim Lewis

Stacey Dooley: ‘I am now middle class. I can’t deny it. I never used to eat olives’

Stacey Dooley with oyster
Hair by Andrea Lewis using Living Proof haircare. Makeup by Sarah Burrows using Byredo.
Photograph: Phil Fisk for The Observer

In my childhood, it was the three Ps: Pop-Tarts, Peperami, Pot Noodle. That was my diet and I could still eat that as a three-course meal now. It’s a miracle my organs are still working to be honest, I’ve eaten so much of them. Then a blue ice pole for dessert.

I’ve had a lot of interesting conversations over a lot of interesting meals. One was a Thanksgiving dinner in a prison in Iowa with a load of female lifers. They’re in prison for the rest of their lives, they’re going to die there, so they look forward to this for months. It’s a big deal: they were pressing their shirts, everyone looked super-smart and we’re sat there eating lukewarm turkey. I’ve eaten in loads of prisons; it’s a bit like plane food, not bad.

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