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Someone has updated his title to "Dr" and added a comment about his being awarded an honorary doctorate on 9 Nov 2007. The latter may well be true, but in common ussge it does not give rise to the former and I feel that in this instance it grates. Recipients of honorary doctorates rarely use the title, nor indeed do many people who have actually been awarded a doctorate for academic work unless actually pursuing a career in academia/research/the medical professions. Thoughts? Sitush 10:01, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree - I will delete it.--ukexpat (talk) 19:06, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

This article states that he developed a "parallel career" as a dramatic actor. Parallel to what? Sitush 10:04, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

No-one has responded to this yet. I'll give it a few more weeks and then, if no response, adjust the text in some way that removes the "parallel" reference. Sitush (talk) 00:21, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Is he Jewish, as suggested elsewhere? --MartinUK 21:32, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Can find no evidence for or against, nor am I sure why it would be anything other than trivia Sitush (talk) 00:13, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Born Free Foundation reference - I'm becoming slightly irritated by the numerous references to the BFF which have been inserted of late into entries for various UK TV personalities. Often the entries are somewhat more verbose than in this example but the origin seems to remain the same and the timing is also suspect. I have nothing against what the BFF do but it does smack of advertising/self-promotion on the part of BFF as I know for sure that some of the persons referred to do much charitable work in other areas. It also bothers me that much of what is claimed across the articles re: BFF is unreferenced. Thoughts? Is there a template available for known "charitable" works where all this stuff can be dumped as a list, with links, without the need for sometimes verbose statements of position etc. The BFF, for example, has its own entry & so anything more than the most basic statement is duplication Sitush (talk) 00:21, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

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