Rob Brydon: ‘I was up on stage, with everyone going, you’re fantastic! But I was very unhappy’

Just when you thought Brydon had dipped his toe into every possible area of entertainment, from sitcoms to game shows, the 61-year-old star of ‘Gavin & Stacey’ brings out his first children’s book. He talks to Ellie Harrison about branching out in his sixties, why he’ll never go on ‘Celebrity Traitors’, and the early life lesson he learnt that altered his outlook forever
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