Richard Bacon

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772 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day · Richard Bacon - ‘I Was Betrayed By My Best Friend’ · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

First time I took it was in a nightclub called Brown's in Covent Garden with that guy that you alluded to, whose name I'm not going to use.

But we were best mates and he got a wrap of it.

And I took the whole wrap at once, which I didn't really understand it and I threw up.

But I had taken it a handful of times before that.

And I think he was jealous of me.

So I did 20 months on Blue Peter.

Pretty much the same amount of time Keir Starmer was Prime Minister.

Which is now a long term, these days.

These days, much longer than Liz Truss.

and we went out and obviously i shouldn't have done that blue peter was such a big opportunity and i i loved the job and i still really respect it as as a program and you were in these massive studios and you were flying around the world it was an incredible job to have at 21 to the age of 22. um and we had a big night out and took a load of drugs and um

And then I, where was I?

It was Blue Peter's 40th anniversary at the Natural History Museum.

And I came out and I came out with Karen Keating, who's now passed away, who I used to fancy so much when she was hosting Blue Peter, before I was a host myself.

And I walked out of the Natural History Museum with her and Anthea Turner.

And there was a photographer there, paparazzi-style photographer, and he was only taking pictures of me.

And I thought, well, that's weird, because there's Anthea Turner, and there's Karen Keating, and there's me.

And I was like, oh, they're there!

And he wasn't interested.

And he followed me down the street, and he followed me into a taxi.

And so I was like, there's something not right here.

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