Broadcaster Richard Bacon has reflected on how losing his Blue Peter presenting job in 1998 transformed his career
Dismissed by the BBC after a cocaine scandal, the then-21-year-old later moved into Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast, rather than the budget holiday programme he jokingly imagined hosting
Speaking to Jamie East on Tales From the Celebrity Trenches, Bacon also recalled a 2002 interview with Britney Spears, during which a playful proposal and mock marriage contract briefly became an apparent wedding
The paperwork was swiftly destroyed by security, but the story later inspired a tongue-in-cheek bigamy gag.