There are gentler sections with little anecdotes, and he transports you to the era with lovely descriptions of the time. What I was totally unprepared for, and astonished by, was what actually happened in the interview, about 10 minutes in. Alan Davies, to me, will always be Jonathan Creek - the BBC sluth with curly hair and a sardonic wit. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Davies was reluctant to engage in press work for the book, wishing his audience to discover the nature of its subject matter through reading it. More recently, there was an altercation with a climbing instructor who bumped into Davies’ children in a leisure centre and then took the story to a newspaper. It’s a very brave thing to do and — at the risk of overstepping the invisible ‘black humour’ line — is worthy of a good round of applause at the very least.In 2009, the year of the pub fight, Davies said he had stopped drinking “because it’s incompatible with two-year-olds bouncing on your head”. a very heavy, heartbreaking read, but a necessary one nonetheless that i hope will inspire others to tell their stories. In September 2010, he began a three-part documentary series Alan Davies' Teenage Revolution ( Channel 4), partly based on his autobiographical book My Favourite People and Me, 1978–88.

JUST IGNORE HIM is not only an autobiography, it is a testament to a survivor's resilience and courage. His support of Arsenal has been used as a recurring source of humour on QI in various ways, such as by assigning him a buzzer sound of a chant by fans of rival club Manchester United. i haven't seen anyone mention this in reviews, so if you are sensitive to stories of child abuse, sexual assault, death of a parent, and/or trauma, please bear in mind these topics are discussed in heavy detail throughout the book. I felt desperately sorry for the little boy but could also see he was probably quite often a devious, difficult little horror to be around. When you look at the lives of famous people you might be forgiven for thinking that their success and happiness was handed to them by a wonderful happy childhood.To pad that out, Alan reminisces about his childhood, TV programmes from the 1970's, favourite toys, teachers and housekeepers, friends and relations. As an actor, it’s possibly surprising that he hasn’t developed a script to deal with how to talk about this trauma.