Jake O'Donnell

Jake O'Donnell can’t swim, sing, or properly ride a bike, and he’s never paid for a haircut and been happy with the result. He has, however, spent the night in a dumpster, sliced his chest open sliding across the dance-floor, played a game of cricket in a French hostel lobby, had a senile old man blast diarrhoea next to his car, and been sent home from the hairdressers for having dirty hair. Apart from occasionally wearing salad dressing for aftershave and drinking beer out of ashtrays, he’s a pretty decent bloke, just don’t bring up his dead hermit crabs. His debut book 'Walk Like a Man(iac): The Story of Everyone Who Became a Man in the 21st Century' is out now.