Funny, annoying and kind.
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Fairly decent bloke.
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Independent, curious and funny.
Silly, loving and, as an Aries, passionate.
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View profile →A sense of what’s right, a few quid and some nice paintings.
This was said about me in a Radio 1 focus group: “I don’t pay my licence fee to hear scummy northerners.”
Throat and neck cancer in 2018. They told me six to eight months if it hadn’t been caught.
Working in a bottle factory, which lasted one day, and the Radio 1 breakfast show.
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
Nothing. I survived a cancer scare at 60, so I am just overjoyed to be here.
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