THERE are few people more obsessed with TV than comedy superstar Peter Kay – so much so that he’s kept every telly guide he’s bought since he was seven.
Peter’s encyclopaedic memory of all things television has inspired his new book, TV: Big Adventures On The Small Screen, in which he reveals: “They’re all in a box in the attic and I have every single one since 1979.
“Actually, you can completely believe that. They’re a bit tatty and torn now and I’ve actually seen one or two microscopic white insects wandering across the pages. Probably dining out on Noel Edmonds’s face.
“I read through them a few weeks ago and that same excitement came flooding back.”
As a child, Peter loved telly so much he had an unusual Christmas present request – asking for blank VHS tapes rather than games consoles or Scalextric.