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Richard Hammond

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“I get that, and I'm not, I'm not. Not failing to be aware of that, and right now for a lot of people. Whether or not they get to do a job on TV driving around in cars, or whether or not they get to look at the universe and talk about the idea of God and love existing or not with their mates is kind of less important than they've just had to have a prepaid me to fitted for their gas. So The answer to Guilt, embarrassment, I think carry it with you, maybe learn from it, look up from it occasionally and think, how can I what can I do? may be better able to connect with people That just that would be useful.”
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“We all have those. We're lucky to be alive, and it's easy to say that and it sounds trite and nonsensical. But we are, and for each one of us to experience our own individual perception of the universe to live this experience is so phenomenally lucky so many millions and billions of things have to not just have happened but continue happening for that to be possible that whether or not whilst experiencing this miracle of self awareness in and of the universe, we also get to go on the telly driving about in a car or not is kind of irrelevant at the end this having this conversation being aware of having loved ones being aware of yourself in the world being aware of the world all of that. That's the amazing stuff The rest is just stuff And that's easy to say for me because I'm not that worried about my next phone bill. It's a harder if you are.”
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“Yeah, is it guilt? It kind of is it tastes slightly differently but it is sort of it's embarrassment It's slightly embarrassing. Is that why having God accidentally stepped into so many luck traps I'm now running my businesses because that's something I feel I can say, no, I did that. That wasn't just lucky I made that happen by consciously taking decisions, by thinking about it. Maybe I don't know, but then I'm lucky enough to have the opportunity to do that which I would never have had, so it's all the whole experiment of my life has been skewed entirely by those key elements of luck at those key stages. But”
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“Their only risk of their freely made given that they were the product of whatever it was in me that was driving me to do what I was doing was already going to happen. So I'm lucky because not only did that opportunity come along, but earlier in my life something had happened and equipped me with the need to gain whatever it was I stood a chance of gaining from taking that risk, so I took that risk. So it's still it's still luck. It's still luck. Somebody else could have had that same opportunity, but they hadn't been lucky enough on top of that to have been given that extra impetus to pursue it and take that risk by something that happened earlier in their lives, so it's luck. I've not just been very lucky.”
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“It's been conscious of being the beneficiary of a great deal of luck. When I was younger, I went through a phase of yeah, but I was, you know, luck often lands at two in the morning and you're the only one still in the radio station editing, so that's where no, it's just luck. It really is, because I've got people who started in the same year as me eighty eight. And I've got all the luck. I took some serendipitous decisions. I took some risky decisions, you know, I stepped away from my only ever job with a company cart back into broadcasting and took a massive pay car. I took a massive pay hit when I joined Topgear. They were risks, but”
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“Same thing. Yeah, there is. Guilt is slightly more refined that it's almost a why me. Yeah, because I'm still the little Birmingham lad that being a photographer wasn't for me. That's for other people I can't do that. I can't actually be a photographer for real in the big world. And if somebody had said I could, you know, run various businesses and be a television presenter and no, don't be daft. There's not guilt.”
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“Her three guys with less talent ever gone out in front of more people but no that has ever happened it was just a serendipitous lining up of a need for our slightly anarchic approach I don't know what happened it was just a time When we fitted.”
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“No idea why. Honestly, none of us have. None of us have. It was which made the best show we could, and next thing we know we're walking out in front of thirty thousand people on stage in South Africa or Sydney or Hong Kong or all around the world doing the live stage shows with people that loved the show and we left. Why? We went out in front of sixty thousand people in the Polish national stadium in Warsaw just before we went out on stage I was to the lads backstage and we have those earpieces and microphones so you can only hear each other otherwise too much noise and they were all there's music playing we're about to all drive out with some terrible stunts I usually hadn't listened to the briefing so there'd be a crash and just before when I said lads”
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“price supercars that we'd bought, and we pulled into a petrol station so this is early days and everybody came out running to see us and to talk about the cars and they sort of got that oh what are you boys doing what are you up to now and that's when we realized oh hang on we've created something here it's got a momentum of its own which is great”
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“Surprising moments, day one. Studio one series one standing in Dunsfault So this is two thousand two very early or maybe two thousand one we filmed it I think I can't remember long time ago standing on the stage and you know I'd always watch Top Gib because I loved cars and I'd watched Jeremy on it because he's older than me and he was already doing it and so as we were it was recording one they played in the top gear theme and my instinct response from inside was oh top gear's on brilliant oh I'm on it I better concentrate but yeah there were key moments once when we were driving three”
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“It's a really good bits are in the moment. But I mean that's easy to guess, isn't it? You'll have said some killer funny or incredibly moving things in the moment. That's when we do our best work all of us. So we would always devise a broad trajectory for the whole thing if we're making a special it's expensive so we can't just get a Mongola and see if some stuff happens. You've got to set something up. But you know that's the minimum you're going to come back with and you know the best bits will be the unplanned bits of course always.”
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“Always, if somebody's going to make a TV show or a piece of internet content about this, oh, right, do this thing about cars, okay, and then they don't get anybody who knows about cars involved in making it. But you wouldn't do that if it was baking or dancing or cooking or sport or football. I mean, you wouldn't. You'd want that baked in because it's not so the wrong foot your consumers, your listeners, your viewers, or catch them out or show off that you know more than they do, but you can demonstrate this is real, this is an authentic passion, and we always kept that right at the forefront. It wasn't big, but it was there. Even though what we were doing was ridiculous often.”
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“The one thing that troubles me though is about that business about the subject being important if you're going to make a TV show, a podcast, piece of internet content, whatever about something, the subject leads it has to. It has to have the authenticity and integrity to it, because we the audience will see when it doesn't. And it's a tit cars for some reason.”
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“Oh no, no, it was we were still a car show, but we always say you don't have to be a car nerd to watch it, we do that for you. I think it was a means of escape, but through a relatable portal. Because you could look at all of us three, and let's be honest, we're none of us. Brad Pitt. We're none of us anything, really. You could, I think people would always find that identify with one of the three of us. I'm rather a little short, squeaky brummy one or the more graceful, long haired, slightly fat one, or the really big fat shouty one. Which one am I? Which one? And you'd fall into one of those camps. And so that would sort of take you along with us on whatever adventure we were going on. It's why we ended up making today the big trips, because that's what people liked, the proper escape.”
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“I don't care about pottery at all. But watching people who are so into it, you know, the lovely chap cries when somebody does something. It's like wow, watching people engage with, indulge or share their passion is incredibly compelling, whether it's for making pottery or baking or dancing. It doesn't matter or cars. It doesn't matter”
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“With most of us before James joined, but the rest of us were all in place, and weirdly some of the people we still work with now. We were all in that room. And we all said, right, these are the grand rules of top gear. It's about the real world. Cars that people really buy, no supercars, no foreign travel. We're only going to drive proper cars that people buy in this country and then didn't last very long at all. We realized that's not what people wanted, not what we wanted to make. We never made it with any science or calculation. We just made the best car show we could. And we were lucky things aligned the world wanted that show three misshapen blokes, talking about their passion. But I do think you'd have watched that pottery show.”
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“Well, initially I cried and opened a bottle of champagne the mobile. Oh God, yeah, I was just... I'd spend my whole life trying to do that so it had worked. Yeah, yeah, it was a huge moment. But we just thought we'll make a car show. I remember the conversation in White City BBC HQ.”
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“Go on, didn't you? Yeah, it was remarkable. I'd done car shows. I'd done radio for years, moved to the south to get a job at Renault in the press office so I could get to know the editors of the car shows, which I duly did, one of whom Pete Baker saves me and gave me a job on Grenada Menamotors making little car shows and then eventually after years and years and years of doing that I auditioned for the new top gear and got the job.”
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“Yes, I am, because of what I represents, which is everything other than shelter. Yeah, and here's me getting all poetic and romantic and dewy eyed about the analogue world because I think something that moves you physically corporeally from one place to another. That's powerful because I'm going there, I'm taking my person, my son, and the universe only exists for each of us in here. So I'm taking, therefore, the universe with me to wherever it is I'm going to do whatever it is I'm going to do. And that makes it impossibly exciting. And for that reason, I think it'll never go away”
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“Continue doing that, it might well be that disruptors need to put the hand up and say, sure. I mean, I wanted to talk about the car because I believe the car is sort of an expression of some of that. Because in that analog world, which I am from. You've got those needs, so you need shelter, I suppose, warmth. Food stimulation supplies mate. Once you got beyond Cave, a car comes to represent all of it. That's why it's important. That's why it very quickly became a symbol, because you've got shelter, but what are you going to do starved to death and die of loneliness and boredom at the back of your cave? No, you need to leave it and get that that you need, and something that can get you there first to the kill, to the mate. the resources is powerful. That's what the car became.”
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“If that's the answer, what is the answer to that? Because we made it collectively as a species. We have gone that route. I mean, I'm not sort of absolutely somebody. We've gone that way. Well, yeah, I'm not saying we've gone that way. We must.”
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“You could be put into a pod, into which you could be given sufficient physical, mental stimuli, which is only chemicals. maintain what is measurably a healthy human being.”
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“But I think a digital world is even less fine because it's zeros and ones it's absolute. And yes, in what we do it's great. It returns empirical data on whether or not something is being approved of if you're making a marketing film as opposed to sticking your finger in the air and seeing which way the wind's blowing and our people looking at that poster outside the bus station. Yes, but the poster outside the bus station in that analog world has a far finer level of detail than I think you could do digitally. But are you attributing, are you saying that it's intrinsically bad that we're drifting towards a digital world and away from the analog because the analog contains something that could stimulate stimuli? You can stimulate, you can replicate. We could honeycomb the entire world.”
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“of definition that couldn't be achieved digitally because you're always limited, whereas it's a bit like trying to explain science and the world using science, trying to explain the universe using science. It's only the languification of it. It isn't absolute. These aren't the facts. They're a version of facts that we can share between us and sharing and communicating is what we do, it's what defines us. So that's all it is. It's a languification of that that is, but it doesn't have the definition. It can't go down to a fine enough. It's still like trying to paint the Mona Lisa using Lego bricks. It's not quite fine enough.”
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“But there's only so many stimuli that can be received and registered via our various senses and organs enter that lump in there. There's only so many things that I think You might attribute magical qualities to an analog existence, and you can see why we would, because an analog existence has a degree of”
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“Following on from you evolve will they carry pre coded dad information to deal with our digital world? Well physiological changes know, but then as human beings, because we have to have the capacity you might be born a Wall Street billionaire fisherman in an Amazonian village. The same essential ingredients have to do that, we have to have that limitless flexibility, so maybe that's why our brain will, maybe it'll always retain that flexibility, which means by definition it can't evolve in a distinctive root, because that's narrowing options. We're still born with this incredible capacity to be and do anything within a very broad range of things. And we need to hang on to that. I mean, all a baby giraffe has to do is endure a six foot drop when it's born and be able to run a few minutes later and you're away. That's it.”
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“Well, I mean, it can. It is. A limitlessly flexible bucket of soup and electricity, isn't it really? When I dented mine, crashing to the ground at three hundred twenty miles an hour, stupid boy. That was typical me. I only did that because I'm a shore bloke. That is short bloke all over. Anybody want to drive this rocket power dragster? Me, me, me, me, me, me, me will everybody be looking. Yeah, I'll do it. Then it crashed. But I dared damage mine, and there were all sorts of anomalies within it, ways in which it didn't work as it should, emotional responses were all over the place, no big motor control issues, but some, but it rewired it fixes, and there's loads of instances of it doing that. We could evolve, we could be involving now. Will it be genetically encoded and passed down? So will a new generation.”
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“I don't think we can't condemn it because we've pursued it. What's come out of us? We have all the options. So we need to look at what it will do for us. I think it'll water down, it'll dilute.”
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“But the drive to do that is quintessentially human and it's one of the reasons we proliferated the way we have that spreading of gossip and sharing of information and sharing of mutually agreed standards be that Industry Showbase gossip. or religion or anything else Sharing those is what enabled us to work together in huge numbers, otherwise we would be in little individual groups still, hunter gathering. So it's been key. We have to have it. It was inevitable. I think it's run away a bit. I think the critical nature of gossip and sharing all of that because we've developed this way of doing it. But maybe it'll decrease in import. Maybe we'll need bigger spikes in it to actually grab her attention. But I don't think”
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“Gratitude in there, which is a healthy feeling. Yes, there is. I'm grateful that we are able to do that. I'm grateful that we live in a time when we can come up with an idea sitting in my barn having a meeting. And then just do it. That's amazing.”
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“I'm going to say, yeah, but I'm only saying yeah for a romantic reasons because actually it makes no difference at all. The fact is you can practically you can do what you can do, so do it to good effect. Sitting there hopping up and down going, it's amazing that we can do it probably doesn't help. What Bet”
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“The other day we were having a meeting with the guys at work with me on Drive Tribe and we were talking about I'm not going to tell you because you're going to do it and you'll take it from it. We've got a cracking idea for a little show we want to do platform and it involves first of all Lucy one of the people in the team she's going to go off and do this thing and we can do it we can link live what Those of my generations should keep hold of that amazement and just keep it going because it will be to you that's what of course you can. I'm still a bit amazed by that. Is that a good thing? Is it useful?”
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“Your generation, I guess, and the agencies that you run and the work that you do, that bit further than I am from, because I'm still closer to still being amazed, I used to have a fantasy when I was working radio to go and do interviews, again with no mobile phone, so you had to pick up a phone with a curly wire and make the appointment, and you had to be on time because you couldn't just turn up and then, oh, I'll call you when I get there. There were no mobile phones. It didn't exist, and there was no internet to research where you were going, so you all sat nav, so you took a paper map, navigated your way there, and you did your interview. You could link up live with the radio station, but through like a radio mask that you had to put up, and then you'd go back, and I used to fantasize about imagine if I could just go anywhere and do live broadcasting.”
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“No, it's about twenty years before the is honestly it belongs in the museum, but that's what we used. So I'd be dispatched with that to go and do an interview with no. Mobile phone took out, but when I got there I loved it I still love harvesting people's thoughts and ideas and sharing them via any medium I mean look at what we live in now look at what you're doing what we can do what I do drive tribe that I now run that is about doing exactly that and it's almost”
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“Initially, I don't think I spent that much time thinking about it like that because heck it was work. If you're a freelancer in radio in 1988, 89, you go where the job is and you live in whatever bedset you've got to live in to do it because I love the job and let's not I didn't, it wasn't one long introspective naval gazing party it was this is really cool I really enjoy it and in those days I'd arrive at a new radio station and if I was lucky be given the radio station car which was often quite a new car which was and dispatched in that with a tape recorder which is a reel to reel quarter inch tape tape recorder that to you is a steam train”
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“A lot of us don't we will have traits that aren't always the best, but that are rooted in justifiable cause. But if your job then rewards it, if you are needily showing off my mummy, stop showing off my childhood but if you're then rewarded for it wait a minute your brain is sort of remapped a little bit to go so that isn't a bad thing I should pursue that because I literally am rewarded financially and people seem to like me so I'll continue doing it. It's why my midlife crisis has lasted twenty years and it's still going on. Enjoying it”
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“was I aware yeah I learned to fight early on, I learned to punch above my weight to make a noise, to be braver if there's some idiot on his bicycle trying to jump over some action man toys on a ramp, it'll be me. Yeah, I knew. I knew. I was a small kid just screaming, notice me, notice me, notice me. I think And the problem there, of course.”
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“powerful even, but the fame itself is just means it's embarrassing standing on a train on your own because everybody's staring at you. That's all it means. I guess if you live in London and go out a lot, it might mean you can get a restaurant table. But you can only get that if you go, hi, I'm kind of a big deal off the television. Can I have a table? Okay, and then you feel even worse when you can't.”
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“I think it's, and it's not, it's fairly obvious when you see it that way. I'm not against all of that. We live in that world where people can project their personalities across the world. That doesn't trouble me overly. The only thing that does trouble me is occasionally I'll meet a young person, a kid, and they'll say, oh yes, great. I love what you do. I'd love to be famous. And I'll always stop at that. I always really. Why? Because you know it's a It's a byproduct of a fascinating and potentially rewarding job and it can be important it can be.”
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“are by definition the same ones who the only ones driven enough to achieve it. They're compensating, so. That's why it can be damaging, because only the man or woman who is so desperate for it will have hung on and endured. Sacrificing friends and time and spare time and sometimes dignity and whatever else in order to get there, and they're therefore the least able to deal with it when whatever it was that they craved is given them. They'd be better off solving the craving removing the craving than feeding it.”
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“If you're lucky enough, people seldom have careers now, as broadcasters as I think of it, because their personalities and that's a different game. I come from an era when it was a craft. I spent a long time learning about how to address an audience through radio. You never pluralise the audience, you talk to people one on one. All sorts of things. And those craft skills have gone, and they've gone from TV. Is that a bad or a good thing? I don't know if actually we're getting to see people genuinely as they are, if we're celebrating interesting personalities, rather than somebody who simply learned to craft. Maybe that's better. But I was pushed to do it, I think, in part by that, and I've often said that the worst people to pursue it, as in the worst people to deal with the trappings of success in the media.”
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“I overcompensated, I felt I had to. It's almost like you take that as a kid, I mean, you take that into the room with you. Anything that makes you different. Whatever that is, you take that in the room with you and it's kind of you have to deal with it and you have to deal with it, you have to compensate for it, be funnier or be quicker or be angrier or noisier or naughty. You have to somehow compensate this thing, which is to do with, I guess, if you could bring that thing with you into a room and it was simply absorbed and it didn't matter then you could be the person behind all of that. So yeah, I think it did influence. One of the reasons I'm a broadcaster now for sure. Yeah, bound to be, must be must be I've often thought really”
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“It was Yeah, I guess you don't really it's not something you crave although I've spoken to lots of tall people who often wish and had a similarly difficult time as a child because you're always sticking out the crowd and you don't always want to and you can't make yourself small. It genuinely doesn't trouble me now. I mean, the truth of the matter is often when I meet people for the first time, and if they've seen me on the telly, there's a moment and they're disappointed because they're expected to meet something that you'd hang on a Christmas tree or put on the mantelpiece, but I'm actually what five seven ish, so I'm fairly average really, just that I consistently work with. But it yeah it did drive me on as a kid, and I do it's bullying. I've never bleated about it, but it is, and it influenced me greatly, yeah. Yeah, it”
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“Because I was conscious of being smaller than everybody else and I wanted to be a bigger noise in the room. I wanted to sort of disrupt and do stuff, but I didn't want to be naughty. I still hate being in trouble. I hate being in trouble. It bothers me, and it did then, but I was just honestly I wouldn't have put up with me.”
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“Yeah trying to be funny. Every compensatory measure that anybody who's diminutive in height has ever made I've done only discovered recently that one of my dearest friends Zog Ziegler whom I've known for thirty odd years is twenty years older than me in emails referring to me to other people he copied me into one by accident about ten years ago. He always calls me little Napoleon I didn't know he'd been doing that he looked a bit shamefaced but he still does. Yeah, I exhibited all of those traits I was just irritating honestly really annoying.”
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“Yeah, well, I'd sat in my O levels under a different examination board and a different syllabus from that under which I'd studied, and then I went into sixth form, but it reached a point eventually when I The teaching staff thought it might be better if I went somewhere else. Literally anywhere else, just not there. Just don't be they chucked me out. But not for anything heroic I wasn't one of those yes I set fire to the janitor's car or something I just was annoying I was an irritant and I wasn't focusing so they slung me out.”
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“sixteen Ada replied I just want to ride my moped I'd have wanted to be an artist a great painter but had taken no meaningful steps towards it at all because again lacked confidence Yeah, I was sort of that would only have happened if a miracle had occurred. Do you know what I mean? If you have an option that you're not actually pursuing actively because you think that's not for me, but I'll keep it in there. Admittedly, what I'm saying is I was hoping to win the lottery, but I wasn't doing the lottery. But it feels like that. But by eighteen, I'd have said, I want to be in radio. And ultimately TV.”
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“I don't know I guess I would never have imagined that Anything that I've done happening to me none of it. For me was See, I'm that bit older than you and possibly there's a generation that were raised by people who were glad to have got through the war. and for whom what they really wanted was just a quiet life with nobody trying to kill them or their parents or their loved ones. So I wonder if there's echoes of that. And I think that was maybe still echoing around Birmingham, that what you really wanted was just to make sure everything's okay, just to everybody's all right. We can have family life and we can just progress without making a fuss, sticking your head over the parapet because that brings risk. So avoid that, don't. So I never would have. I'm not saying I was directionless.”
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“Who was doing a piece of camera? And there was a camera there. And I remember thinking that's amazing. He's been so animated and talking to that thing. There's nobody there, but he's talking to. He's engaging with it and sort of almost pulling a response out of it. And I think that was, I didn't leave that experience going, that's it. I'm going to be a television presenter because that was for other people just as being a photographer was for other people or an artist. But it was there in my heart that's when I thought, I'd love to, I bet that feels amazing.”
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“That's going to be a theme. We went all the way down to Western Supermare to see them. And we were walking along the front there. There's a low sea wall and a beach down here on my right. And I saw there was a bit of a kerfuffle going on. And a little later on me looked over the wall. A lot of people gathered round and some people holding things and in the middle it was Derek Griffiths presenter.”
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