TFI Unplugged Confidence

Then, after being told I was in a group of six people to be ‘let go,’ and being the only one to be let go, in a world where my innovation seemed to work vigorously for and somehow against me, it took the wind out of my sails.

And then. Nothing. Since September 2025 and as of July 2026, I’m still yet to land a full time role.

I've been and am, thoroughly grateful to News UK/Virgin Radio for the ongoing 'shift work' that;s been an almost constant since the back end of January 2026. Just to be able to go to my home city, two or three times per month, navigating the tube like I did in the first 20 years of my life and seeing some of that London swagger, a comparison to the sleepy town I commute from, is a blessing.

Standing in the TFI Unplugged/Virgin Radio studio, feet away from a man who inspired me from when I was a teen and surrounded by colleagues who are the best of the best, isn’t easy for me.

Despite the genuine love for it,I dread walking on my own into the environment, I never know where to stand, I sometimes miss cues and I just look awkward in the glimpses of cut aways where I’m visible.

But why? I’ve interviewed British film Icons, ex pro international footballers, actors, sports people and I’m friends with an movie actress whom I’ve collaborated with many times.

The answer is, for some reason, I got in my own head.

The photo has me wearing a shirt, casually, for the first time in nearly 20 years.

I’ve been looking after myself, exercising and losing a bit of weight.

I’m standing in the edge of the shot, not because I didn’t want to be seen but because I wanted the others near me not to be obscured. That’s just who I am.

Who I am is currently being rebuilt and maybe nearly finished.

I actually turned down the chance of a photo with Chris Evans this week and it took every bit of my strength to do so.

I figured, if I stop treating work like it’s a comic con of familiar faces and more like a team of which, I play a small role in, the confidence will come back.