1) I once won The Licensee 'Beer Writer of the Year' award. Presented at the annual Parliamentary Beer Club dinner by ex-chancellor Kenneth Clarke, the fat, Tory bastard. Oh, and I got a thousand quid.
2) I've dressed up as Dolly Parton - complete with plastic tits - and performed a strip tease right down to my boxers in a busy pub in Knaresborough. This was for the benefit of the very first Comic Relief.
3) I was in the first series of a cheesy TV quiz show called Talkabout. It was originally shown in Yorkshire but then went nationwide. I was recognised as far away as Worcester, woo! Incidentally, my colleague and I were on for several days and won about 700 nicker.
4) I've bungee jumped twice but have since developed a real fear of heights. Never again. Not a chance.
5) My first pet was a dog. Named (by me) Nothin'. And yes, I used to run around the neighbourhood when he got out shouting 'Nothin'! Noooothin'!' amid much hilarity.
6) I don't drive. It's not that I've lost my licence, I've just never driven. Not interested. The beer would have to go, for a start...
7) I briefly played for Lancashire as a schoolboy footballer. I would have been the next George Best but I never was because, at the time, he was still around. Oh, and because I was crap.
8) I sang in an all-journalist band called Spike. And supported Shed Seven. They were great. We weren't.
9) I have had three-way sex with two women on three occasions. But never with another bloke.
10) My ex-wife is three months older than my step-mum. That made for a few raised eyebrows at the wedding.
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