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Liam chose cricket over girls

LADIES’ man Liam McGough once chased maidens of a different kind — he was a mad keen cricketer with NO interest in girls.
School pals remember the Big Brother romeo as only being bothered about bats, balls — and climbing trees.

Liam won £100,000 on the show last night — and on nights out back home in Durham he’s usually lucky with the ladies too.

But his school days were a different story. Fellow pupil Rachel Gordon, who like Liam is now 22, said: “I can’t remember him having any girlfriends. He was too busy playing sports and being a rough and tumble little boy for any of that.

“He wasn’t interested in girls at all really, just cricket and climbing trees. He was really good at cricket.”

The tree climbing stood Geordie Liam in good stead for his future career as tree surgeon.

But if he ever branches out into acting, his early stage performances may make him wince.

Rachel, who works in computers, remembers her old school pal as looking exactly as he does now — apart from being smaller. She added: “Liam was very cute. My greatest memory of him is when we went to Austria with the school when we were about nine.

“We had to put on a talent show and Liam had to do a comedy sketch. I can’t remember what it was about — but I do remember that it was terrible.

“Everyone was laughing, not because it was funny, but because it was so bad. It was hilarious.”

Rachel, who went to school with him in Lanchester, Co Durham, recalls a musical they appeared in together. Liam, a keen piano player had to dress in flat cap, bow tie and knee-high socks in a Victorian production he would probably prefer to forget.

Rachel recalled yesterday: “We must have been about seven years old and had to dress up as Victorians. “We sang old Victorian songs, like ‘Oh Britannia’.

“Judging by his face in the video, Liam is not impressed by what is going on.

“He looks like he hates it — as though someone has forced him to wear those clothes.”

Source: The Sun