 Yeah, yeah, and I couldn't stay on and do A-levels and things like that. So when you said to him, I don't know quite what role your mum played, but when your dad learned that you actually wanted to give up being a printer and try your hand at full-time acting... Well, he wasn't really involved in my life much then. By the age of 16, I started working for an East End bookmaker who run a menswear store called Mr Bennett. He was an incredible man.