Gwendoline Christie worked as Simon Callow's dog sitter

Gwendoline Christie says while she she was studying theatre at Drama Centre London in 2000, legendary actor-writer Simon Callow had employed her as his personal dog walker and assistant.
The 39-year-old actor said her association with Callow, 68, went on to blossom into a beautiful relationship of that of a mentor and a mentee.
"The school secretary came to me and said, 'I have a job for you. Simon Callow wants his compact disc collection organised.' He had 4,000 CDs.
"I met him, fell in love with him, in the non-romantic sense, and he became my mentor. When I left drama school I started looking after his dogs, and I became his research assistant, and collated chronologically every piece of writing he's ever written, for his autobiography," Christie told The Times newspaper.

"In return he told me to be an artiste and not to compromise myself. He used to throw books at me and say, 'Take this and read it, and feed your lazy and disorganised mind!'" she added.