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The man who played Ashley Peacock, Corrie's favourite butcher, now apparently works as a real butcher in Morley, just south of Leeds.
This got me thinking. Does anyone know of any other instances where an actor has acted a job on screen and then gone on to do that same job in real life?
My colleague reckons there was someone who played a teenage doctor on telly and then went on to become a real doctor
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So i am from Alicante. The other day i was talking with an English woman that was having some break in Torrevieja.
I was suprised because she was a cleaner at a hospital and she could book holidays outside of summer.
In Spain a hospital cleaner cannot afford holidays.
How is possible you can pay that much to non skilled workers?.
I think I haven´t expressed my question properly:
What I wanted to say is:
Do you get paid that much in the UK to be able to afford a vacation?
Does your boss really let you choose vacations outside the summer?
Is it that easy to find a job in the UK (she told me)?