Much as I would have liked to continue using my Fletcher pics in 2002, unfortunately by then I was over six years older and several stone heavier. These pics are better than I remember but at the time I was appalled by how fat and insecure I looked and, though this wasn’t the photographer’s fault, there wasn’t a shot among them I could consider putting in Spotlight.
Because I hadn’t been able to choose a useful publicity shot from the previous batch, Moira kindly offered to do a second shoot a few weeks later, and for this one we took a very different approach, going for more of a casual feel. Thankfully this was much more me and produced more comfortable results. Hard to believe it’s only a few weeks. Doesn’t look like the same man.
Left: The most expensive photograph I’ve ever posed for (I can’t bear to tell you how much it was after VAT) and it’s only through making this page that I realise I don’t even own a copy of it myself. I had to trawl the internet for this picture. Something will have to be done about that. It’s a very pretty photo but I hated my hair being that long. Within a year I’d had it all cut short again and this looked nothing like me.