That Fruitbat bloke again...
He's got jolly popular suddenly hasn't he? Well back in the day I was part of the team that openned the 'prestigious' 300th Our Price store in Brixton. In order to drag in the punters we contracted a number of area-friendly celebs to do personal appearances that day. They were:

Carter USM. The lads had filthy hangovers from a previous binge and wouldn't drink any of the beer we'd laid on for them. Hurrah for me!

Some bloke from Loose Ends. ('Seminal soul group'.) Had to spend thirty minutes in the toilet powdering his nose before facing the public. Wouldn't share!

Omar, the curiously coiffured chappie. Basically sound bloke, by far the nicest of the guests. Ego the side of a train mind.

'Dangerous' Dave Pierce, at that time a Capital or Kiss DJ. Frankly the only things he endangered were the chairs he sat on and the buffet, both of which would never be the same again. Big fat lardy bastard.

Only Carter qualified as heroes, and to be honest they still do. My mate Will (who introduced me to B3ta) bought some obscure Carter product off ebay recently, only for the vendor to turn out to be the Fruitbat himself. Now that's trading on your laurels I reckon!
(Mr Steve is jobless and fancyfree!, Tue 30 May 2006, 20:14, Reply)