23 August 2005
CrawleyToday
SMALL screen star Eugene Sully enjoyed a wheelie great time
promoting the county council's Young Drivers' Skills course.
The Big Brother 6 runner-up, who rocketed to fame while on the hit Channel 4 reality show, was delighted to front the campaign which aims to slash the number of young drivers involved in road traffic accidents.
Offers for the popular 27-year-old town celebrity have been flooding in since he left the infamous house – he has already been asked to star in a local film, to be the special guest at Crawley College's leaver's ball and to head other campaigns in town.
But on Monday (August 22), Eugene of The Paddock, Pound Hill, geared up for the West Sussex County Council event. He said: "I think this is a wonderful scheme. The young people here today are really taking on board all the advice and training which is being given, and are keen to improve on skills, which in most cases have been gained fairly recently.
"I'm 100 percent behind this sort of positive campaign and I really hope that more young people think this is a really cool thing to do. It makes an excellent gift for anyone who might have just passed their test."
Former Hazelwick School pupil Eugene, who passed his driving test when he was 18 and immediately took an advanced driver training course, visited the Goodwood motor circuit on Monday (August 22).
The course involved a session on the skidpan, which included handling rear and front wheel skids, and being assessed by an advanced driving instructor.
Council chiefs launched the course two years ago as part of the county council's accident prevention work. So far more than 900 young people have taken part.
Earlier this month, Gloria Marshall, the mother of Aaron and Katherine Sharpe who died in a horrific A23 road accident along with six others last May, and Steve Mohabir, the sole survivor of the crash, threw their support behind the scheme.
