Working in retail, rather famously, sucks. I learnt this the hard way over two years of Saturdays spent squashing rich bunioned feet into vile gold shoes at Russell & Bromley. On the other hand, one clear side-effect of serving rich tossers is that some of them are also likely to be famous, and those are the days when even the most glancing physical contact with Fame almost seems, for a moment, to make up for the derisory pay. Your pub chat rules, and, for a while there, you're Worth Something.
So 'citizen journalism' might turn out be little more than a euphemism for shop assistants' revenge, but, whatevs. Here are some little gems from a designer store about celebrity manners, specifically those of a certain sitcom actor...
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