Gordon Kenney

At the behest of the loonies that run Atlantic, we had to film an intro sequence for the James Blunt video that we shot a couple of weeks ago. Kinga was busy shooting Will Young so Ollie Evans stepped into the fray to deputize.

The concept was to cast a 70s Top Of The Pops style presenter to introduce the video.

We chose this fella - Gordon Kenney:

While on set Gordon was only too happy to give us a few insights into his life. He lives in Hainault. He is married to a young Russian woman. He hasn't worked for 2 years as he's been busy writing a musical - a project into which he's ploughed most of his savings.

Gordon still has an eye for the ladies as our 2 models soon found out. 'Don't be scared girls. Just pretend I'm attractive'.

At one point he said:

'I wish I had a voice like - what was his name? Big darkie. What was his name? Barry White'.

You have to feel for Gordon, stuck in an anachronistic Bravo TV world where Alf Garnett's 'In Sickness And In Health' plays continuously and it's still acceptable to call back people 'darkies'.

A few years ago another actor cornered me on set and started telling me about his impending divorce. The problems began when his forskin unexpectedly calcified. The resulting surgery deprived him of 3 inches of penile length and left him with a deep seated fear of sexual intercourse. He fell back on booze and beta blockers for his nerves. Eventually his stupour made him abusive and his wife turfed him out.

As a local cab driver said to me recently, 'everything is everything Tim, I'm telling you'.