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" 1. Having the name of your old job shouted in your face is weird. Because that&amp;#039;s what the majority of people do, just shout HOLLYOAKS in my face. I&amp;#039;ve come to the conclusion it&amp;#039;s just a nervous thing, but still haven&amp;#039;t worked out the best way to respond. If I knew what their job was perhaps I could just shout that back\u2026 NATWEST! BURGER KING!  2. People don&amp;#039;t get the whole &amp;quot;no work, no pay&amp;quot; situation. As in, when an acting job finishes, the TV company doesn&amp;#039;t keep paying your mortgage. Which is why headlines such as &amp;quot;EX EASTENDERS ACTOR FORCED TO WAIT TABLES!&amp;quot; boils my actual blood.  3. Your family are a bit sick of updating people on your life. What are they up to now then? (Because I was on the show with my twin sister). My brother likes to switch-up his answers these days: &amp;quot;Oh, they&amp;#039;re ladies of the night&amp;quot;. Blank stare.  4. Posing for a picture when you have no makeup on and a mouthful of food makes you want to cry a little bit. And I think it boils down to the fact that I&amp;#039;m not a famous person. I was on TV ten years ago -\u00A0why would someone want a picture of a non-famous person dribbling their dinner?  5. Getting recognized by actual famous people will never stop being weird. In my job I get to interview people who are a trillion times more famous than I ever was, so it&amp;#039;s always weird when they stop me halfway through the interview to ask, &amp;quot;Weren&amp;#039;t you on Hollyoaks?&amp;quot; Lily Allen did it, and lovely Little Mix were so excited when I said yes that we couldn&amp;#039;t really finish the interview properly. 6. Answering THAT question. Did they kill you off or did you choose to go? Ermmm, I can&amp;#039;t remember really, a bit of both, I think\u2026 yeah, you know. I was ready to go. Bit of both\u2026  7. Being given career advice is a killer. A common one is, &amp;quot;Why don&amp;#039;t you just go on Eastenders?&amp;quot; Oh god, why didn&amp;#039;t I think of that? I&amp;#039;m just going to give the producer a little call now and no doubt I&amp;#039;ll be in the Queen Vic by Monday morning. Another fave is, &amp;quot;I guess you could always go back to Hollyoaks?&amp;quot; My response being, &amp;quot;I could\u2026 if my brain wasn&amp;#039;t hanging out of my head in my final scene.&amp;quot; 8. Recognisers are stubborn as hell. Every now and then I get sick of talking about something I did ten years ago, so feign confusion when someone says, &amp;quot;I really recognize you from somewhere?&amp;quot; The conversation that follows usually goes a little something like this: &amp;quot;Really? Well I&amp;#039;m in here a lot, so that figures.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;No it&amp;#039;s something else\u2026 did I go to school with you?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Nope, don&amp;#039;t think so.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;What is it then?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;No idea.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Are you on TV?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;No.&amp;quot; (Because I&amp;#039;m not) &amp;quot;You are. You definitely are.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Nope.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;A soap. You used to be on a soap.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Oh right yeah. I was on Hollyoaks TEN YEARS AGO.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Nah, never watched it.&amp;quot; 9. Other soap actors are tainted for life. You can&amp;#039;t watch another soap without remembering the actors&amp;#039; drunken antics at the Soap Awards. Yes, you might be sobbing over the news that your cousin is actually your cat&amp;#039;s daughter, but I just remember the time you fell asleep in a hotel lobby wearing your pyjamas.   10. And you can&amp;#039;t be impressed by sobby scenes either. Because when an actor wells up and you wish you could present them an Oscar through the TV, it&amp;#039;s likely a makeup artist just jammed Tear Stick in their eyeball (think Vicks Vapour Rub - stingy). 11. Vegetable soup will always be fake sick to you. I played an alcoholic. I wore cold vegetable soup more than actual makeup.  12. People speak to you as your alcoholic character. I&amp;#039;m in the bar enjoying a wine, when someone saunters over and says, &amp;quot;Should you really be drinking that?&amp;quot; wink wink. No, I should be pouring it over your head.  13. You will always have a deep-down respect for soap actors. Because yes, it&amp;#039;s the dream job with amazing pay and parties, but it&amp;#039;s also bloody hard work. Filming in the snow with full-blown flu, learning lines for up to ten scenes a day, working weekends and having a camera in your face to catch every single spot and bad hair day in all its HD glory\u2026 and all on a MASSIVE hangover!  Follow Cassie on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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