Celebrity Gogglebox: Mo Gilligan's rise from working in Primark and Reiss to dating a Holby City and Hollyoaks actress
10.02.2022 - 06:03
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Lambeth, Mo Gilligan’s parents split when he was just five years old but both parents raised him while he was living in Camberwell. Mo’s flare for comedy developed when he attended a performing arts school in Pimlico and soon he was filming laugh out loud performances. The Arsenal fan began his career filming different impressions of London characters on YouTube.
READ MORE: Love Island bosses issue stern warning after contestant's family received death threats one week into show Often imitating an East London geezer out for ‘a couple of cans’ Mo seemed to have a sketch for every occasion. While he worked his way up the comedy ladder, he gained a job as a retail assistant at the popular fashion brand Levi’s in Covent Garden and there he started experimenting with short form comedy sketches online. "I always worked in retail — Primark, the Apple Store, Reiss," he told the Evening Standard.
"It’s all about how you sell the product to them. When you do stand-up it’s like selling a piece of clothing except that you are selling yourself. ” His videos soon took off and he became a hit online as customers visited his store in London just to see the comic they had watched online.
As his views began to skyrocket, Mo started to tour the comedy circuit around his retail job, but it wasn’t until he reached his late 20s that he finally became successful enough to leave his job. Speaking to the BBC in 2018, Mo admitted that he still can’t believe how far he has come in the last year after he ditched the sales assistant role. He said: “I liked the job, though.
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