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Hugh Dennis: The spy who mocked me

February 7, 2012 11:09am by Such Small Portions   Comments (0)

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Mock The Week and Outnumbered star Hugh Dennis has revealed that he was approached by the secret service while studying at University.

The comedian, who now plays a father in a dysfunctional family in Outnumbered, even went as far as attending an interview with MI5 in London to be a spy.

Dennis revealed to the Radio Times: "I went down to Carlton House Terrace [in Westminster] for an interview.

"I can't remember very much about it other than thinking I'd make a terrible spy. They did the normal, 'Are you homosexual?, Have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?' I recall this one man just stared at me silently for ages. And I thought, 'I don't think this is for me.'"

Dennis decided to decline a career in international espionage and instead plumped for a job at Unilever before making his way in comedy. 

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