Always felt like Alf was proper punching there
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Weirdly enough we had a similar experience with Sue Nicholls about 15 years ago at the Sainsburys up on Regent Road when she had a lovely chat with my eldest who was then about the same age as your 6yo sat in a shopping trolley.
I was still at the stage of being quite surprised to bump into random famous people around Manchester who weren’t behaving like knobheads.
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I went to school with a mad kid like that, fearless and the first to do everything, he probably had ADHD looking back now but of course back then whatever it was went undiagnosed.
He mouthed off to the wrong person though one day, a brickie, working high up on a building, who threw a brick at him which hit him right in the head and nearly killing him, he recovered but was never the same, much more calmer and quiet.
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Ha ha ha! Very similar now you mention it!
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Oh wow - that’s a core reference and quote right there! 
Roy Budd too.
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Marcus was a radge! We need radgies to keep us on our toes. Quite literally - as we run away from the madness they pull down upon us.
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Obviously we cant condone this but what if that Brickie discovered the cure for ADHD, a bit like Alexander Fleming discovering Penicillin by accident.
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A mate of my wife is dating the bloke who played Hawk in the original 90’s Gladiators TV show.
He doesn’t like to talk about that part of his life though, he’s gone on to have a decent acting career in several American long running drama series.
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Just passed 6 music DJ, Radio 1 leg-end and former Fall bassist (sacked for ‘getting married’ if memory serves), Marc Riley sat outside a cafe on Deansgate in Manchester, looking quite sunburnt.
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Wasn’t there some urban myth that she used to be a porn star before working in kids TV? 
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Never heard that one.
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And Maggie Philbin 
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