sat down and wrote him a very long winded letter (typed page and a half) telling him all about himself.
Yeah, mum gave him a right royal gobful backstage after he was rude to her during the PoG auditions... must've worked. On the day she performed on the show, he was unusually pleasant and actually said something nice... guess he didn't want a repeat of the F-word on air.

yeah...he made Simon look like a Sunday school teacher...
Sure did! Best talent show judge ever was Red Symons on Hey Hey it's Saturday's Red Faces segment...at least he was funny with it,