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In His own words, Dan Bryan describes how the fame game doesn't mean he can escape doing the dishes when he pops round to his mum's...

THIS is my chance to say thank you to everyone in this wonderful, optimistic city of ours I was so proud to represent on television.

If people didn't know where Hull was before, they do now.

Funnily enough, people are quick to assume I now have it easy "because you're famous", when the opposite is true.

I now have to carve a niche for myself if I'm going to stay on top and not fade away into that dim and distant place populated with lots of has-been "entertainers".

I want Hull to grow as I grow and carry on growing once I've gone (he said at the risk of sounding theatrically dramatic).

People's reaction to me has been wonderful and it feels good that, if nothing else, I made people smile while I was in the house and I'm able to make them smile when they meet me now I'm out.

This is where it starts to feel a little bit weird because I still feel just like I've always done, and the reaction I got on stage at Foxy and Tom's Big Bash was absolutely amazing and moved me a little.

It also makes me want to say "Guys, c'mon now, I never had this treatment before, so why the change?"

Life doesn't suddenly become "glamorous" the minute your face becomes known. The clubs are still the same - just ridiculously more expensive.

If, God forbid, I ever do start to believe my own publicity, I've got a mother who insists I do the dishes and be clean-shaven and a housemate who sends me out for panty liners because she's too busy being a multi-award-winning international playwright (The Guardian's words, not mine).

So I've no chance of swanning up the red carpet (that's for ladies) and demanding my dressing room be all white (that's for divas). Because I'm from this place called Hull.

Let's keep it real, tell it how it is and, above all else, make sure you've had a shave before going to see your mother!

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