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• Trained as a draftsman after dropping out of college.
• Actress Amanda Redman, his then-sister-in-law, encouraged his acting career and even prepped him for his audition to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
• While studying at the Central School of Speech and Drama, he shared a flat with actor Jamie Glover and met his future wife, Beth Goddard, at Glover's birthday party in July 1997.
• Wrote a book on 1970s and '80s culture, Things Ain't What They Used to Be, in 2008.
• Patron of Momentum charity that helps children and the families of those children deal with cancer.