Chris McCausland

The weird thing is, I suppose if you split the book into three portions, you've got everything about me up until being a comedian, losing my sight over 25 years, becoming a comedian when I was about 26, and then doing Strictly, which was a huge thing really at the end.

And I thought writing about being a comedian would be the easiest bit because it's what I do and it's what I love.

And it turned out that writing about growing up and losing my sight

was actually what I found was more interesting because I was writing it again.

Well, I'm the only person that can write about this from my experience, whereas every comedian has to write about, then I did Live at the Apollo.

Then I did... Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wait to pick the one thing that makes me sound like a... No!

A violent dirt.

Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of things that I think when you look back and you realize, you know, you really look at things like the role of your grandmother in your life and things like the Hillsborough disaster, which I wasn't at, I wasn't there, but it affected the city in such a big way when I was 12 years old.

So these things, you get to look back and,

Having lived beyond that and see how did that affect me at the time?

You can look at it as an adult, never really done that before.

And I think Alan Davis said to me, when you're writing, write as if nobody's going to read it.

You know, don't be worrying about writing things that you think I don't want people to know because people want to be let in.

Because I did Strictly as well.

I think it really kind of ripped me open in front of everybody on the telly in such an emotional way that I think I was a lot more open with the emotional side of things, losing me sight and things like that, than I would have been if I'd have wrote it before Strictly.

Yeah.

You know, once you've cried on the telly in front of 10 million people... Yeah.

You feel a lot less precious about it.

Yeah.