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Authors: Kirk Norcross

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Acknowledgements

Mum, obviously my first and biggest thank you goes to you.
Thanks for always believing in me no matter what, and supporting me through absolutely everything in life.
You taught
me that life is not all about money, but about making a difference.
Love you.

Dad, thank you for rescuing me when you did, and teaching me to be tough, or I’d never have survived through my childhood.
You have become one of my best mates, and I hope
it stays that way.

Daniel, thanks for beating the shit out of me over the years, and being exactly how an older brother should be!

Dappy, thank you for teaching me to be humble, and for being a great friend, always there when I need a chat.

Danny, you are my right-hand man and the best raver I know.
A party is not a party without you there!

Scott, thank you for being a friend as well as a cousin – and for keeping me on a strict diet and in shape!

My manager Adam, thank you for putting the time and effort into me, and being on hand with advice and a trip to Essex to see me whenever I have needed it.

Emma Donnan, thank you for your help putting my story into words – it has been an emotional ride and you were the perfect person to go through that with.

Ingrid Connell and all at Pan Macmillan, thank you for giving me the chance to tell my story, and for being great to work with.
And Andrew Lownie, thank you for helping set up
the deal in the first place.

AM Concepts UK, thank you, including Ian Minton, for all your hard work.

Thanks to Dave Almond and Ian Stoddart from Peace Of Mind for looking after me when I am on the road.

My Lime Pictures family past and present – Amanda Murphy, Kate Little, Sean Murphy, Ruth Wrigley and Tony Wood – thank you.

Thanks to
TOWIE
for giving me the wings so I could go out and fly.
Hopefully this is just the beginning.

To all my fans, especially on twitter (@kirk_official) thank you for the support and the banter, let’s keep it going and thank you for buying my book!

Picture Acknowledgements

All photographs are from the author’s private collection apart from:

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: © ITV/Rex Features

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: © ITV/Rex Features;
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: ©XPOSUREPHOTOS.COM

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: photograph by Harleymoon Kemp,

© Matrix Studios/AM Concepts UK

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©Mark Milan/FilmMagic

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List of Illustrations

1.
Mum and Dad, looking happy together.

2.
Getting a cuddle from Dad.

3.
That’s me in the back garden of our house in Jesmond Road, about to get into Oscar’s kennel!

4.
With my big brother Daniel on the way to a fancy dress party.
Guess who I’m meant to be?
Bart Simpson, obviously!

5.
In the pool with Dad’s mum, Nanny Pernod.

6.
I was proud of my school uniform, as you can see from this photo taken on my first day at school.

7.
With our lurcher, Oscar, and Daniel.

8.
In the kitchen with Nan and Granddad, Mum’s parents.

9.
With Daniel: the men of the house now Dad had left.

10.
My sixteenth birthday, with a cake and a big hug from Mum.

11.
Aged sixteen – note the hair gel.
Spikes were big in Essex that year.

12.
Dressed up for the school prom – I looked like Dr Evil from the
Austin Powers
films!

13.
With Dad in Ibiza – our first proper holiday together and I loved it.
He was becoming my best mate.

14.
At Sugar Hut with Liam McGough, twins Sam and Amanda Marchant and Brian Belo, who were all in
Big Brother
series eight.

15.
Chantelle Houghton has been known to come to Sugar Hut too!
An Essex girl who has made a great career for herself.

16.
Some of the cast at the launch of
The Only Way is Essex
in autumn 2010.
From the left: Sam Faiers, Lauren Goodger, Jessica Wright, me,
Mark Wright, Candy Jacobs and Amy Childs.

17.
With Dad, who joined
TOWIE
in 2011.

18.
With Lauren Pope.
When I first set eyes on her, I just thought ‘wow’.

19.
With Lauren again, at Sugar Hut in May 2011.
It was the wrap party for the end of the spring series of
TOWIE
.

20.
Lauren and I both booked in to have nose jobs – I’m looking pretty out of it here.
There was a lot more pain afterwards than
I’d imagined.

21.
My Bettie Page tattoo, which I had made to look a bit like Amy Childs as a tribute to her!

22.
Leaving Sugar Hut alongside Amy in August 2011.
She’d left
TOWIE
and was about to go into the
Celebrity Big Brother
house.
We became mates again after that.

23.
With Joey Essex who felt like my little brother when he first joined
TOWIE
.

24.
On a date with Gemma Massey at the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park on 28 November 2011.
I couldn’t get her out of my head.

25.
Holding hands with Natasha Giggs after the
Celebrity Big Brother
wrap party on 16 February 2012.
She’s a really nice girl.

26.
Sam and Billie Faier, two great girls and good mates!

27.
Dappy always supports me and I try to do the same for him.

28.
Danny Dyer has become like an older brother to me.

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