A young Mr T, being an adventurous, brave soul, applied for the British Blue Peter kids show in the 1960s.
He made it to a shortlist of two, up against a John Wallace Bottomley, of Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire.
The final test, for the two wannabe presenters, was to carry a baby elephant, strapped to their back, up a factory chimney.
Mr Bottlmley wiped the floor with the young American, changed his name to Noakes, and the rest is, as they say, history