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"Fresh Meat is back - Channel 4&amp;#039;s cult comedy-drama returns on Monday (November 4) for more twisted tales of piss-ups, pubs and politics. Back in August, Digital Spy headed back to uni to speak to the students of Manchester Medlock and talked porn barons, fake booze, awkward tube encounters and Fresh Meat&amp;#039;s future... University life has three distinct stages...  &amp;quot;First year is Beer Year; second year is Spear Year; third year is Fear Year,&amp;quot; Jack Whitehall explains. &amp;quot;JP says that in the first scene.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Yeah, I didn&amp;#039;t have any of that,&amp;quot; laments Howard&amp;#039;s portrayer Greg McHugh. &amp;quot;What, you didn&amp;#039;t drink?&amp;quot; retorts Jack. &amp;quot;No, I had beer\u2026&amp;quot; &amp;quot;And you didn&amp;#039;t get worried at the end about getting a job?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Alright, specifically I didn&amp;#039;t have a spear year.&amp;quot; Jack knew someone who was &amp;quot;a bit Howard&amp;quot; back in his schooldays...  &amp;quot;He was called Toad and he was a porn baron. He was the first kid to get a Dell laptop with a CD rewriter - so he used to burn loads of porn and sell it to people. &amp;quot;Toad, the Porn Baron - he was very into motorways, as well.&amp;quot; Some Fresh Meat fans are difficult to impress...  Jack recalls: &amp;quot;A guy walked past and went, &amp;#039;You&amp;#039;re from Fresh Meat!&amp;#039; - then he went, &amp;#039;I didn&amp;#039;t like the ending of series two - I feel the ending needed a lot of work\u2026 just bear that in mind&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;Then he walked off.&amp;quot; Getting drunk on screen can be perilous...  The Fresh Meat crew can&amp;#039;t actually spend all their time on set drinking booze, but swilling non-alcoholic alternatives can sometimes have even worse after-effects, as Kimberly Nixon (Josie) explains... &amp;quot;In the first series, we drank - for about four hours - a lot of grape and prune juice. There was one loo. It turned biblical.&amp;quot; Joe Thomas&amp;#039;s university experience was &amp;quot;a bit like Hogwarts&amp;quot;...  &amp;quot;My university experience was very solitary,&amp;quot; bemoans Cambridge graduate Thomas, who plays awkward Kingsley. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d go to the library on my own, come back to my room on my own\u2026 &amp;quot;It was quite cell-like, really - I mean like a monastic cell, not a prison cell. We know how much sex those monks are having - they are loving it.&amp;quot; Fresh Meat fame comes at a price...  Starring on a popular comedy-drama series like Fresh Meat is bound to up your profile, and recognition can sometimes lead to embarrassment, as Charlotte Ritchie (Oregon) reveals... &amp;quot;One time, I was just messing about with my friends, banging my head against one of those adverts on the Tube - like &amp;#039;Duh, Duh, Duh&amp;#039; - looking the stupidest I&amp;#039;ve ever looked... &amp;quot;I looked up and there was this girl standing there going, &amp;#039;Are you Oregon from Fresh Meat?&amp;#039; &amp;quot;Right then, I wished I wasn&amp;#039;t.&amp;quot; Fresh Meat could return in one year... or in 10... or 20...  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve never really known six individuals of completely varying professional backgrounds to be so invested in a show,&amp;quot; says Vod actress Zawe Ashton. &amp;quot;I feel like the writing team would never move forward with it if it wasn&amp;#039;t going to be great and neither would we, because we know how good it can be.&amp;quot; Jack chips in: &amp;quot;We think it&amp;#039;d be fun to do what they did with Skins - what Fresh Meat characters would be doing in 10 or 20 years&amp;#039; time. JP would definitely be the Chancellor and Howard would be\u2026 a serial killer? Or a porn baron.&amp;quot; Fresh Meat series three begins on Monday (November 4) at 10pm on Channel 4. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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