[QUOTE 3614081, member: 45"]Why keep on the day job at the garage? Why not take your TV earnings and live an easier life?
I dunno. I dunno. I dunno. I love it. I always like the dog to wag the tail. All right, you earn decent money on TV. But I earn decent money on me trucks. The day the TV boys get sick of me, and that day will come – course it will, you’re kidding yourself if you think otherwise – what would I do then? If I was a TV presenter, I would have got in to the luxury trap. Earning mega-money. And the next thing you know they’ve sacked you. The money stops. And you’ve got a massive mortgage. And you think: “shoot. shoot.” And you have a massive breakdown. And you have to go to the Priory.
I’ve never got above my station. Nice house. Nice shed. I drive a Transit van and a Volvo Estate. I’ve never lived like a rock star. No mansion. No cocaine habit to fuel. And if everything stopped tomorrow I could quite happily live on my truck wage.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE 3614075, member: 45"]You don’t like the TV work as much as the other parts of your life?
Channel 4 keep coming up with ideas. If I went in to that work full time, they’d have something for me to do every day, filming-wise. But I’d become one of them – not brainless, because some of them are clever – but a TV presenter. Passionate about anything that they’re told to be passionate about. Such a fake industry. And that’s not me. I wouldn’t want to do that as a job.[/QUOTE]
You know, I really liked the bloke anyway but he keeps going up and up in my estimation
and the raffle at the end of every section, plus telling you what will be after the ads, then for the goldfish viewers telling you again what is coming up once the adverts have finished.
