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TIL That after the ITV kid's show Rainbow was cancelled in 1991, the host Geoffrey Hayes worked as a shelf stacker in Sainsbury's and as a taxi driver. Despite trying to get into serious acting, supposedly directors couldn't disassociate him from Rainbow.

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