Daily Mirror

Being given your Mooching orders

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Anthony Scaramucci’s dismissal after ten days as Donald Trump’s spokesman prompted many of my listeners to share tales of shorter-lived employment.

None, however, managed to lose a job before starting it, as I did in 2001.

Working at Anglia Television in Norwich, we made a pilot for a chat show, which a head honcho at Channel 5 commission­ed on the spot.

After vigorous celebratio­ns, I went to bed dreaming of becoming the next Graham Norton but woke up to a phone call telling me that the commission­er had been fired that morning. Any similariti­es to Alan Partridge are entirely coincident­al.

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