How did I get here? I blame Ruby Wax. And Joanna Lumley.
It was one those quirks of fate accidents. I was brought in at the next-to-last minute to direct location films for two series of The Full Wax.
First up Ruby breaks into Joanna's house in a 'Through the Keyhole' spoof. Simple for me. I like spoof, I know the rules and how to bend them rather well.
I did a very good job. Too good maybe. Janet Street-Porter (then head of the department) told me that 10,000 viewers had contacted the BBC to complain. They all believed that Ruby really had broken into Joanna's house. And what horrified them was because Joanna did a lot of charity work it was wrong of Ruby to break into her house.
Well, for the record, the window was open and that's how we got in. So nothing was actually broken.
