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David Heslop
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Producer and writer of TV and online video, as well as some marketing, social, and events stuff. Once won a BAFTA, which was nice. Currently writing a book.
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Quote with your model of masculinity.
Sean Connery in the film Zardoz. Standing in a desolate landscape, Connery has his hair in a long braid. He has a thick handlebar moustache. He wears black thigh high boots and very small red pants, which are kept up with crisscrossing red bandoliers. He carries a revolver. His chest and legs are very hairy.
December 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Begun this advent has.
Close up of a foot in a sock. The sock is decorated with images of Yoda in a Santa hat.
December 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Once again it's the anniversary of the time I needed a van at ITV and the only one they had for me to use was literally a prop from Coronation Street.

Which I didn't really know because I don't watch Coronation Street.
A white van in the snow. It has the name and number of a fictional company on the side, because the van was used as a prop in Coronation Street
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

Y'know what? I think I'm probably ok.
A scene from the TV series Andor. Several characters in a rural, hilly landscape. It looks cold and exposed. Two women in the foreground stand at a small fence; three men are in the background. They all wear the kind of scruffy sci-fi garb common to Star Wars.
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Throwback to when I was just an innocent man.
In the CBBC HQ circa 2016, presenter Lauren Layfield, me (grinning idiot in a Transformers t-shirt), and Hacker the dog smile for the camera
November 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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I hadn't heard anything about this film beyond Farnaby writing it, and that feels like ages ago, so I'm very glad that it is in fact real and coming out next year!
Poster for the film of The Magic Faraway Tree. Three figures - a girl, a man with a strange moon-like head, and someone covered in saucepans - stand before a fantastical-looking tree, their backs to the camera.
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Throwback to when CITV got to go to a swanky media party down in That There London. With an 80s theme, natch.
Four idiots at a party, all dressed in daft 80s-inspired clothes. Slick back hair, skinny ties, shades, etc. One guy is wearing a frilly shirt like Adam Ant.
November 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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OK, last #comic for sale for now, moving away from Transformers and into my other 80s obsession, #Garfield.

This is issue 1 of the Garfield comic from a few years ago. Also in excellent condition!

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23618731...
Cover of Garfield issue 1 by Kaboom. Image shows Garfield, Odie, Arlene, Nermal, and a mouse (as well as Garfield's teddy, Pookie, which he is holding) running towards camera with a green background
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Finally on the #Transformers front, I'm selling Transformers/Angry Birds 1, which has a lovely cover by Livio Ramondelli.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23620548...
Cover to Angry Birds/Transformers issue 1. Image shows Optimus Prime with an Angry Bird for a head, riding a giant Grimlock who also has an Angry Bird for a head.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Outside of cult hits and Big Two superhero stuff, I'm selling a #Transformers annual from 2011. This is a UK hardback annual, and was published by Titan to tie into the live-action movies.

So if any of my Transformer-loving friends are interested, please take a look!

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23634063...
Cover to the UK Transformers Annual 2011. Bumblebee is at the bottom of the image, with Optimus Prime at the top, and some other Transformers I don't recognise (sorry)
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I'm also selling #Deadman issue 1 by Neal Adams. This was from a few years ago. It has a great embossed glow-in-the-dark cover.

It's possible I've never actually read this comic.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23635176...
Cover to Deadman issue 1. It's a glow-in-the-dark cover which makes all the colours seem really faded. The cover shows a moustachioed man at the bottom of the image about to do something scientific. Behind him Deadman is screaming, arms out, as if in warming. Behind him, Batman is leaping forward with his arms out. There's a lot going on.
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Back to single issues, and I'm selling issue 1 of Sex Criminals, a comic I find hard to talk about online in case I end up on some kind of list.

It's really good though! And funny! You've probably heard of it, it was a big success.

So you could own the first issue!

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23635176...
Cover to Sex Criminals #1. The cover art is a stylised white silhouette of a woman on a pink background. She holds a short whip-thing in one hand that could be used for some light BDSM, and a gun in the other.
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Another #Comic series I have for sale is Marvel's Secret Invasion, which inspired the, er, notorious? Infamous? Much-discussed?! TV series of a couple of years ago.

The comic's better.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23636850...
Eight comics arranged in a grid. They are the eight issues that make up Marvel's Secret Invasion mini series.
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I'm also selling #TeenTitans Year One, a mini-series from a few years ago with gorgeous cartoony art that tells the hitherto unknown secret origin of the Teen Titans.

This is the complete series in single issues.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23636851...
Six comics in a grid. They are the six issues that make up the mini-series Teen Titans Year One
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I'm selling some #comics on eBay! Please take a look if you like comics.

For instance, #MsMarvel issue 1, which is a first-printing in excellent condition (think I read it once and since then it's been stored carefully)

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23636854...
Front cover of Ms Marvel 1, which shows Kamala Khan's chest with the Marvel lightning bolt symbol on it
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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On blue background yellow text reads Time for Tubby Bye-Bye
November 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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If you see this post an album cover with a motor vehicle.
Cover of the Arctic Monkeys album The Car. An aerial shot of a city reveals a lone white car parked on a rooftop car park. The car is very small in the frame.
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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I was looking at this M&S Christmas catalogue upside down and for a moment I thought this reindeer was a mince pie with a lovely little cthulu on it.
An upside-down mince pie dusted with sugar. Baked into the pastry is a simple silhouette of a reindeer head, with a round face and antlers at the top. Viewed the wrong way round it almost looks like a squid-like creature with the antlers as tentacles; or possibly the face of cthulu, with his slobbery mandibles at the bottom of his head
October 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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My daughter any time someone says "six seven" on TV
Donald Sutherland points at the camera and pulls a funny face
October 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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So #Keeper by @doublefine.com really does have a kind of otherworldly beauty.
Screenshot of the videogame Keeper. The player's character, a walking lighthouse, is wading through water in an underground cave. The lighthouse's lamp illuminates the walls of the cave, revealing dozens of phosphorescent plants, which light up the cave in pinks and purples, which are in turn reflected in the rippling water of the cave floor.
October 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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When I was a kid I absolutely adored the escalating imagery of the Back to the Future posters. I pored over them, examining the differences on the time machine and the characters' clothes. I thought it was so clever to have one more character each time! And, of course, the artwork is sublime.
October 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Funnily enough, when googling "1981 videogame releases", I also found this lost gem.

What's even funnier is that apparently Leisure Suit Larry is basically a remake of this.
Cover of an old videogame called (ahem) Softporn Adventure. The cover is black with yellow and white text displaying the title, the developer logo - On-Line Systems - and the subhead "for adults only!" In the centre of the cover is a photograph of the seemingly naked women in a hot tub being served drinks by a waiter.
October 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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QRT with a game released the year you were born, you say? Well I have a funny feeling Nick and I are the same age.
Screenshot of the game 3D Monster Maze. The game is black and white and shows a rudimentary first-person view of a corridor, with black walls on either side. A very pixelated black monster stands in the centre of the frame. On the right text reads: SCORE 50
October 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Cover of the book "Banana" by Ed Vere. A cartoon monkey is tossing a banana in the air with a joyful expression.
October 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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I've done that thing where you change your name for Halloween to be hilarious. Or spooky.
Screenshot of my Bluesky profile, where I've changed my name from Heslop to Hellslop to try to be spooky.
October 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM