So who here wants to be famous? I know I don't. For me it seems to be one of the things that puts me off. As a writer, I'm in no really danger of it, but as a struggling writing, it's looking ever more likely that the way to succeed it to perform.
I'm not sure I have the balls to do stand up. I think I could be encouraged to perform as part of a team though. But it is my ambition to appear in a very small part of my finally commissioned sitcom.
I'd like to be well know in the industry, enough for me to get regular work and the ability to choose what I do. But being as famous as someone like Ricky Gervais, who to be fair is considered a comedian, not writer, would not interest me at all.
I suppose at the end of the day, you can choose the fame you want, if I do have to perform to succeed, I could easily retreat into obscurity once I reached my goal.
I'll have the fortune though, no worrys about that.
I did appear in Heat magazine this week, but only in my copy, when I cracked one off to a picture of Billie Piper with sweaty armpits.