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Well said Joe Simpson on seeing for the first time in 18 years the mountain down which he had crawled

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"Well," said Joe Simpson, on seeing for the first time in 18 years the mountain down which he had crawled for three days with a broken leg, close to death. "The fucker's still there." "Well," said Joe Simpson, on seeing for the first time in 18 years the mountain down which he had crawled for three days with a broken leg, close to death. "And if he comes home with a Battlestar Galactica annual, the door will be locked."'Who's Ready For Ice Cream?' is out now on DVD, price £14.99. There was no talk of who or what I was going to be, no sense of my mum and dad living their lives through me, or telling me that I wouldn't be allowed to make the same mistakes as them.

He might grow up despising rugby, but it won't create a rift between us."So young Michael Pennington will be allowed to be himself, as the older Michael Pennington was "I was never into football. There was that odd thing of being the one brother who never collected football stickers My first obsession was Star Wars When I first saw that, it was a defining moment for me. And I'm still doing that Michael Jackson thing of filling your life with stuff you didn't have as a kid - I buy all the Star Wars Lego.A pause. "In fact, you know what I was saying about fatherhood, that it won't matter if he doesn't like rugby, well if he doesn't like Star Wars, that'll put a hell of a strain on the relationship." His eyes water with mirth. It enriches life, and ultimately I just want to work one day a year, to fit five films and a tour into one day, and spend the rest of my time with him."Is he looking forward, I ask, to buying his son his first pint, taking him to his first rugby league match? "Yeah, but I'm enjoying it at the moment I want him raised the way I was raised. But he is more than happy to talk about his infant son Michael. "He's got the Pennington sunken jaw, and what somebody referred to as my fishy lips, although I think he's looks more like his mum."When fatherhood happens, you've been listening to all these people talking about the fantastic experience of becoming a parent, and you think, 'What if I don't [like it]?' But you do.

And you realise that you've got something in your life more important than you; you realise for the first time how much potential you've got to be selfless, that you would do things for your son you wouldn't do for yourself, stand up for him in situations where you'd let yourself get trounced."It's that lovely knowledge that you've got the capacity to love something unconditionally It's all the things people say. Vegas, for his part, calls Whitehouse his hero, and the older man, who has suffered a marriage break-up of his own in recent years, has by all accounts been unfailingly supportive during Vegas's own matrimonial difficulties.This is painful territory and Vegas is understandably reluctant to discuss it. He's genuinely warm and kind." Paul Whitehouse is similarly effusive, and cast him in his comedy-drama Happiness, albeit more or less as himself. Craig Cash, co-creator of The Royle Family, told me: "I love Johnny, I really love him. They're the first people to defend me, but also the first people to give me a right ego kicking.

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