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"Ben Exposed!"
Deep, dark secrets, embarrassing stories and bigger revelations than an a1 g-string! It’s all here as Ben opens up and says, ‘Aah!’
OK, Ben it’s time to ‘fess up: how much of a klutz
are you?
Well, Believe it or not, I’m not actually that accident-prone, but when
I do have an accident, it’s always a real beauty – one that everybody
sees and takes the Mickey out of me about for ages! Then, just when everyone
has stopped laughing about it, I’ll have another accident so they can
start all over again!
Reveal the last time you went top over tail in
public.
It was when I was in France, Not too long ago. I was walking along when
a few people spotted me and started taking my picture. Because I was quite
busy I didn’t have time to stop, so I kept walking quickly with my head
down. Unfortunately, I wasn’t looking where I was going so I didn’t notice
this bollard right in front of me and I went straight over it – I landed
flat out on the street. Can you imagine how I felt? It was really embarrassing!
Aha! So there were plenty of witnesses around?
Oh yeah, but it doesn’t end there – they all managed to take pictures
of it as well! And I went so red! I was not a happy bunny! I’m just waiting
until the pictures surface on the internet or somewhere – I wouldn’t be
surprised!
So how many bones have you broken in your lifetime?
Touch wood, I’ve never broken a bone in my body. I’ve been close a few
times though, with sprained ankles and things like that. I suppose I’m
due a breakage soon cos I’ve ridden my luck for a while now!
Were you always scraping and bruising yourself
as a nipper?
Yeah, but I think every little kid does really. I must have cost my mum
a fortune in plasters! I blame the concrete in our school playground –
I don’t think it needed to be that hard for goodness’ sake!
Be honest, Ben, are you a brave boy?
No, not in any way, shape or form! I’m rubbish if I see blood, but if
it’s my own, I’m in real trouble – it freaks me out! Actually, one of
my school reports said, ‘Ben is a lovely boy, but unfortunately makes
too much of a fuss!’ My teacher hit the nail on the head there, ha-ha!
Do you wuss out when you see gory things on TV,
too?
Weirdly, I’m not too bad with that actually! I think it’s the combination
of seeing my own blood and being in pain that really does it for me! It’s
not too bad when I’m watching a film and something comes on that might
turn my stomach cos I can just look away. But when I’ve cut myself, I
just feel compelled to start at it like I’m hypnotized – well, until it
spins me out, ha-ha!
Finally, confess – Have there ever been any a1
rumors that have made you feel queasy?
There was this huge tabloid story about Christian once which said he’d
been doing saucy stuff with a page-three girl at a party. It was rubbish
cos we only said ‘Hello’ to the girl then, after about half an hour, we
left! It’s just really thoughtless – they don’t think about who’s being
affected. Bit I think if you take everything that’s written about you
personally, it just ends up doing your head in!
I would like to say to everyone, live your own life, enjoy whatever it is you’re doing and take each day as it comes – even the ones when you fall over a bollard in the street and loads of people capture it on camera, ha-ha!
Thanks to Crimson who took the time to type this interview and forward
the scans.