River City star Iain Robertson started hillwalking because he didn’t want to look “like a kind of weirdo” walking around Glasgow parks on his own.
The 39-year-old, who also starred in the gang film Small Faces and appeared in Grange Hill, took to the Scottish hills almost four years ago after the death of his beloved dog, Lightning.
He said: “You look like a kind of weirdo going to the park without a dog when you’re a middle-aged man.“I’ve always been a walker but not someone who climbed hills.
Instead I’ve always had a dog so I was out everyday with Lightning walking her in the park or out for longer walks in the country.“But she died at the grand age of 23 around the time I joined River City about four years ago.
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