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When Hayley is telling Ailsa about meeting her father, she says that he played Usher in his flat. "At the weekends he played Usher, loud ...." Ailsa was born in 1990. Usher was born in 1978. I know he started young but seriously, that young? I thought he didn't become known in the UK until the mid-late 1990s.

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Leah I only have an ARC so the line could have changed in the finished copy, but it's: "I used to make a massive effort, you know, always be cheerful, alwa…moreI only have an ARC so the line could have changed in the finished copy, but it's: "I used to make a massive effort, you know, always be cheerful, always go out for drinks if anyone was going. Not be offended if people were bitchy. And then one day I was in make-up, and Tom Foster was in the chair next to me, and he caught my eye in the mirror and said, 'Remember son, just because you've got what you want doesn't mean you have to be happy all the fucking time.'"(less)

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