The radioactive tan, piercing blue eyes and dazzling white gnashers filling our phone screen are instantly recognisable as Rylan Clark-Neal’s.
And that’s before the East End-born star has even drawled, ‘Hi, babe’. Guttingly, before coronavirus forced the chat to take place on FaceTime, Notebook was due to interview the outlandish presenter at his Essex home in (where else?) Brentwood.
This was an exciting prospect as, anyone who’s seen him on Celebrity Gogglebox will know, Rylan’s OTT lavish home is everything you might expect from someone who’s grafted their way from a council house in Stepney Green to becoming one of telly’s biggest earners.
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