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Jade Franks on how cleaning toilets at Cambridge inspired her hit show: 'I'm not watering down the fury " just sneaking it through the back door by Kate Wyver

The Merseyside comic used her experiences of Oxbridge to create the fringe hit Eat the Rich, but struggled in ways her well-off contemporaries didn't. Now she's determined to use success to bring more working-class voices into comedy Jade Franks was scrubbing loos while her peers were playing polo. A working-class student at Cambridge, living a double life as a cleaner alongside full-time studies, she has parlaye…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM on January 9, 2026

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