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POOR old Bez. The freaky dancer, who won Celebrity Big Brother back in January, tells me that he's still waiting for his £50,000 prize money to come rolling in.
Glossop-based Bez openly admitted the reason he went into the Big Brother house was to try and win the cash and clear his bankruptcy debts - but unfortunately the cheque is still to arrive.
Not that he minds that much, of course, because the Happy Mondays dancer is on the crest of a wave of popularity since the reality show pushed him firmly back into the limelight.
Bez tells me: "The £50,000 hasn't come through yet and everything I've been earning just gets frozen. I'm still as skint as I was before.
"The only thing that has changed is that I get recognised by a lot more people, from old ladies to tramps, on the street.
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"Still, the state of mind I'm in at the moment I suppose I'm glad I've not got the money as I'd probably just end up spending it all."
I caught up with Bez as he opened the new Virgin Megastore at the Trafford Centre yesterday, and despite his apparent lack of cash at the moment, he is clearly excited about the future.
He's just got back from snowboarding with his two sons in France, and next up is taking part in a UK version of the MTV show Pimp My Ride, where a battered old car gets "pimped" up with thousands of pounds worth of bling.
Bez is getting a London Hackney Carriage pimped-up by the MTV gang in April and then plans to drive it across Europe in the 3,000-mile London to Monaco "Gumball Rally."
He tells me: "I'm hoping perhaps to get a TV show together following my adventures in the taxi. I've got a number of TV things in the pipeline, but I don't want to jinx them by saying too much."
What is definite is two gigs with the Happy Mondays at the Brixton Academy this month and Bez says there are high hopes that the band can get a new single and album out in the near future.
ManchesterOnline
