Favourite Holiday Destination: Sitges in Spain. And I went to Chicago once and loved it.
Favourite Film: Raising Arizona.
Favourite Book: Trainspotting.
Best Advice Received: Don’t eat the yellow snow.
Worst Advice Received: Dance like nobody’s watching.
The Moment That Changed Your Life: When I was asked out of the blue to audition to present a radio show.
Ideal Dinner Guests: James Brown, Chris Morris, Steven Fry, Victoria Wood, Jarvis Cocker, Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore.
Biggest Regret: Giving up piano lessons and not learning to break dance.
Career High: My Freddy Mercury moment in Still Game Live.
Career Low: Writing for Richard Blackwood. Never have I seen a bigger gap between self-belief and actual talent. You could drive a fleet of double decker buses through it.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
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