Sooty puppeteer Richard Cadell found it ‘daunting’ to replace former host Matthew Corbett

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Express.co.uk: “It was daunting.“I’ve done it for 20 something years and it’s only just now that people kind of accepted me as the face of it. “It took 20 years to shake the Matthew Corbett tie and Matthew is still a good friend of mine, and he told me it took him 20 years to shake his father’s heritage.”The puppeteer went on to reveal he felt like “a rabbit in the headlights” when he took on the role, as Matthew had “grown up” with the iconic television characters and, as a result, knew the show inside out.He continued: “I can’t describe how nerve-racking it was because Matthew Corbett had grown up with Sooty. “He was one when his father was performing with Sooty over his cot, so he had 20 years of pedigree working constantly with this.