For the first ten minutes of my interview with eternal charmer Adam Faith I became a little confused about who was interviewing who.

So intent was he on asking me everything - how I got my job (he is interested in doing more journalism himself), how I felt about living in Brighton (his good friend is Walk of Fame creator Dave Courtney) and most of all why I have the same unusual name as his daughter - that I found it tough to get in any questions of my own.

But I finally squeezed in a query about his latest role as a couple's friend in Love And Marriage, a comedy about the ups and downs of modern relationships, which opens at the Theatre Royal on March 10.

"The play is about a man and his wife and their best friend and the twists and turns of their triangle.

"It's a light comedy and, hopefully, it'll put a smile on people's faces. It's fun to do and I look forward to going on each night."

For the best part of four decades, Adam has played the part of a celebrity chameleon, forever changing his guise.

In the early Sixties, he shot to fame as a pop idol whose heart-throb status was ranked alongside that of Cliff Richard.

He has been a TV star (Budgie, Love Hurts, The House That Jack Built), stage actor (including Alfie), music manager and producer (for Leo Sayer and Roger Daltrey), Mail on Sunday journalist and a financial advisor.

The son of a bus driver and office cleaner from Acton, Adam left school at 15 to work as a messenger boy.

"It was a great feeling," he recollects, "For a 19-year-old kid coming out of a council flat, hearing 2000 girls scream at you is not bad at all."

These days he performs to theatre-goers rather than hysterical teeny boppers.

"Hearing an audience laugh is so intoxicating. There's nothing quite like it."

This, however, does not mean Adam prefers stage to TV.

"Some people ask do you prefer TV or stage and there is no preference.

"I like eating roast beef but sometimes I prefer a hamburger or a steak.

"The work is just so different. You can play TV like it's real life.

"With stage, you're in an unrealistic situation and fighting to make it truthful. You're talking louder than normal for a start."

This tendency to like different things about different jobs perhaps explains why Adam's career has been so varied.

"A lot of people prefer to know tomorrow's plans but I don't mind as long as I'm happy with today's."

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