Jason Manford has said he was turned down for a job at Tesco. The comedian said on social media that he applied for a job as a driver when he had been made “recently unemployed” as he “wanted to feel useful”.
He joked that he is “absolutely livid”, adding: “I was only trying to do my bit. “I hope the better person got and enjoys the job, I’ll be watching.” The 38-year-old said he had submitted his application earlier on in the coronavirus pandemic “when it looked like supermarkets etc were going to need thousands of extra hands”.
He added: “I even signed my CV off ‘Previous experience: comedian. So I know it’s all in the delivery’. “Still nothing!” After another social media user joked that he would “do anything to get out of the house”,