Brit talk show personality Alan Carr is, in his own words “a national treasure”…
…thanks to shows such as Chatty Man, Epic Gameshow and RuPaul’s Drag RaceUK!
Alan grew up in the 80s in England’s Northampton and he had battle with bullies, while navigating the highs and lows of fourth-division football. Carr says,
Every episode is rooted in truth with a bit of poetic licence — it’s a sitcom, not The Crown!
It tells the story of my dad, Graham Carr who was manager of fourth division Northampton Town — nicknamed The Cobblers — a football team bottom of the league and facing relegation. However, as his son, I thought football was boring and only liked country dancing!
As a kid, I was picked on for EVERYTHING!
I was camp, I had goofy teeth and wore glasses and, at 13, I already had a receding hairline. So I was getting bullied for all that AND my dad’s awful football results!
Newcomer Oliver Savell, who beat out 450 other kids to get the role, is SO young he never used a corded phone,
In one scene, I’m talking on an old telephone, where you hold one end of the handset up to your ear, to listen.
Because I’m used to mobile phones, I just held the whole thing up to my ear!
Thankfully, my mum showed me what to do.”
For Alan the show is a return to his youth, triumphant,
I’ve done book signings in Northampton and some of the bullies have turned up with their books for me to sign, saying,
‘Do you remember me?’
I’m like: ‘Yeah, you once shoved my head down a toilet!’
Listen, it is, what it is. But yeah, I guess, to any of those bullies watching this, I can say:
‘HA! Look at me now. I’m an icon.’
There, I’ve said it!”
Changing Ends is available on ITVX in the UK.
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(Photos, ITVX; via What To Watch)
