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Do you wonder what your audience will consist of, as your fans are surely a mixed bag based on your career directions, including royalty? Are you separating out the fans into different areas for different categories of fans [laughing]? [Laughing] That’s an exceedingly good question and as we go into the tour I’ll be very interested to see who comes, because I have an audience that starts with preschool [laughing]. It’s quite exciting, I do a show on CBBC called ‘Hey Duggee’, so I’ve got a fan base that starts about [laughing] one and half years old, and it goes up to Pointless, [laughing] umm which is up to and over 60 I guess – it also has a student following. It’s the grade in the middle Katie – I just don’t know! [Laughing] It’s safe to say that the show isn’t going to be preschool compatible, but it comes from my comedy days, so it is comedy. It’s fairly broad, but people who like comedy will like it.
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Your voice has been a huge asset throughout your career, I mean when you first spoke to me today it felt so familiar and good; in today’s crazy society where if you speak well you’re often labelled entitled and shouldn’t be trusted, are you surprised that your voice is even more in demand? I again think you just have to be …and this is going to sound a little buff… but if you are yourself and if you’re happy with yourself, I think you’re generally accepted. I think when it comes down to it with all the ideologies that people sign up to, such as you wouldn’t be accepted because of your voice, when it comes down to it, I think it comes down to who you are and if you are someone that people like and if you’re comfortable in your skin then you’re accepted. If you let your voice hold you back, then you’re an arse! [laughing]. You know people say there is a current vogue for not liking entitled people, I don’t think that comes through, I think it’s what you say not how you say it, I’m not sure if that’s a clear answer at all Katie, but… [laughing] …I got you!
Do you look back at your early days and pinch yourself, as it was a struggle at first before Armstrong & Miller wasn’t it? You’re noted as saying you slept on a friend’s floor whilst auditioning. I think I’ve been ‘phenomenally lucky’ and I think that’s the thing that really strikes through, you can only do so much yourself, some of it has to be luck. You have to have been at the right place at the right time I guess – that’s the polite way of putting it. You can make your own luck to a degree, if you’re really lucky enough you find people you want to work with and work well with and I guess you just have to do the best you possibly can and you have to hope that you’re doing the best you possibly can at the moment when someone’s looking for something or someone [laughing]. You start out in your career by working out roughly what you want to do and you just try and keep doing as much of it as you can. I was also lucky to have such great contemporaries, Ben Miller and I met up very early on and we got together with other friends and started a comedy club that we put on and so that’s it, getting your ‘wares’ out there. But the real answer is I am baffled at how lucky I’ve been, and that’s really the truth. It’s been extraordinary, a wonderful run of good fortune.
Outside of work, you’re a husband and father to boys; do they like seeing you on TV and will they be allowed to watch your
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tour or is it a little out of their sphere? They watch me to a degree; they haven’t watched a great deal of me actually. My youngest watches Hey Duggee – he’s four! He loves Hey Duggee – the others watch a bit of Danger Mouse, I wish they’d watch more of it [laughing] as I think it’s really very good, very well written. I hope they’ll come and watch the tour; it’s slightly adult, but that doesn’t bother me, as long as they don’t start saying things that they’ve heard me say on tour then that’s fine. They’ll enjoy it!
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