‘I was immensely proud of Katie Hopkins for going on to become even more dislikable than me’whether anyone had told me 10 years ago that I would become a huge TV star,I’d have told them they were having a laugh. That itsy-bitsy bit of wit came out instinctively. I can be a bit witty at times, I’m told, or I was later informed that was precisely why the BBC approached me. I still remember the first phonecall I had with a woman called Ruth from the BBC. “We’re looking for a successful British businessman to front a new reality game show,” she said. “But unfortunately we can’t find one. We did have Sir Philip Green interested for a moment, but when he realised the filming would obtain him overrun his non-resident allowance and he would have to pay more tax, and he turned it down. So we’re at a bit of a loose close in the hunt for the talent.” Related: Typewriter,you're fired! How writers learned to admire the computer Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com