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Sharon Horgan profile: ‘This is the most brilliantly fun thing I’ve ever done’

The Irish actress and writer has come a long way from her days labouring away in Kilburn Jobcentre. But just how did she get here?

Sharon Horgan: ‘Unlike so many people in TV, she’s not afraid to doubt herself. To question everything and be full of uncertainty. A refreshing, Irish neuroticism’. Picture: Contour RA

On a 2020 episode of the podcast Jay Rayner’s Out to Lunch, Sharon Horgan, the Irish actress, writer, director, comedian, producer, and sometime backing vocalist for The Charlatans, revealed that as an 18-year-old art student, she once finished off a half-eaten curry she found in a phone box.

“Food wise,” she told her horrified host, “I think it is one of the worst things I’ve ever done and I’m sort of sad to be telling ...