The bin man turned drag queen from Bolton bringing their experience to the stage

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

At the end of January 2020, Bolton-born performer Joe Leather was working on a show in Shanghai when he decided to come back to the UK for a couple of weeks.

Little did he know that the pandemic would lead to that fortnight’s holiday becoming a little more permanent than imagined. Without a job back home - and clubs, bars and theatres all shut due to social distancing measures - Joe, 33, decided to look for something else.

Realising that refuse loading would still be a thing during the pandemic, he applied for a position in Crewe near his dad’s house and got the job. “I’ve always been a performer but during Covid, I had to find something else to do,” Joe tells the M.E.N. “I ended up moving to my dad’s in Crewe and I was trying to get a job and earn some money.

I was trying to apply for loads of stuff and I realised that refuse loading wasn’t really going to go anywhere so I applied for it. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. “I was only going to do it for a week or two but I ended up doing it for seven months.