What's amazing is that I'm recognised all over the world through
Red Dwarf (1988). In New York City, I nipped into a store on Broadway and the owner pointed to the TV, and Red Dwarf was on! The show's enabled me to travel all over the world too, partly for fan club conventions. British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star! Oh, and I got to snog
William Shatner when he was a panelist on
Space Cadets (1997), in which I was a team captain.