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Name: Peter Ebdon

Nickname: Peter Ebdon

Walk on Music: I am a Clown/Fall of Paradise (alternates) – Peter Ebdon

Likes: Singing, Polishing his head, Being very serious.

Dislikes: Indiscipline, The QVC Shopping Channel, Badgers, Aardvarks, The episode of Only Fools and Horses where Rodney has a fake ponytail.

Who’s that boy with the ponytail? They all used to ask. Well it is and was arguably the most successful bald head ever to grace the modern game. Poor Peter suffered a disastrous level of hair loss during the 1990’s. Every morning he would wake and despair at the hairs that had grown detached from his head during the dark hours, it was as if head pixies were playing tricks on him. His pillow each morning began to resemble a bale of hay and soon it was time to face the world and accept who he was, yes, he was destined to be hairless and no amount of badgers urine or aardvark droppings or anything else that he purchased from QVC in those dark days was going to change this genetic certainty.  On the table, when Peter first burst onto the scene he was like a human volcano, his trademark ‘COME ON’ and fist pumping being both the source of high amusement and unabated anger amongst his contemporaries. As hair loss was kicking in, an emotionally fragile Ebbo, having also purchased a karaoke set with his latest consignment of badger urine from QVC, ventured into the world of music, this proved therapeutic for him in coming to terms with his follicular challenges but led to mass breakdowns and in extreme cases suicide amongst others of previously stable character. Though it has never been proved in a court of law that these cases were directly linked to the release date of his second single ‘Fall of Paradise’ and suicide notes reading ‘make him stop’ written on the CD inside sleeve were merely treated as circumstantial evidence at the ensuing trials, it doesn’t stop people whispering. But our Peter is a one-off, loathed by some and loved by others he’s the thinking man’s anti-hero of the baize. We wouldn’t want it any other way. 

Update: He’s  a Vegan.