.jackwhitehall on his love affair with Manchester - from mooning on the Manchester Eye, having his front door stolen in Fallowfield and being ‘chased out’ of Oldham biker pub
When Jack Whitehall had his front door stolen in Fallowfield, he did what any self-respecting student would do. He taped a bin bag to the door frame and carried on as normal. Similarly, when a lightbulb went, he and his housemates just resigned themselves to that room being ‘just for the daytime’.
Whitehall, who these days appears in Hollywood movies with The Rock and Emily Blunt, spent many years living in Manchester. Last week, he was back in town for a warm-up show, trying out his new tour material in Blackburn. He only lasted two terms of his Art History degree after he realised that lectures on tapestries weren’t really going to help advance his comedy career. He started his own comedy night, with the on-the-nose title Comedy Sluts at the now-closed venue Sub Space, off Oxford Road, and booked some impressive emerging talent.
“Instead, I couldn’t quit it. After I started getting paid, I continued to live in a student house in Fallowfield on Egerton Road for two years. It was like the Fresh Meat house, but about 10 times worse. He recalls returning to Manchester to play the then-MEN Arena on one occasion, and later the same evening finding himself in an unexpected lock-in at infamous Fallowfield off licence and newsagent Gaff’s. “It was the most surreal experience, playing the MEN and then back to a lock-in at a newsagents, but it was great.” The nostalgia is real.
“There might have even been a whole motorbike hanging up on the wall, so it would have been weird not to mention it. It was tumbleweed. Chased out of town. Not my finest moment. Basically never turn up to gigs late, and always do a bit of digging around. I learned that.” “I’ve done drag on Canal Street with Belinda Scandal. I stayed at her house and she taught me how to do drag,” he says. “It was a great experience."
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