Dick and Dom
All Dick and Dom ever wanted was to be children’s BBC presenters and work for Radio 1 – and both their dreams came true!
Although they didn’t know each other as kids, they both used to rock up at all the old skool Radio 1 roadshows and desperately hang round the gates trying to meet the presenters.
Back in the days when they were Richard and Dominic, they met in the broom cupboard at children’s BBC as teenagers, doing TV links between the programmes.
Straight away the boys hit it off by geeking out on kids’ TV and Radio 1 and going to raves together.
Dick was a proper Radio 1 nerd - he recorded all the jingles and then laid them back to back to make himself one long non-stop tape.
They liked eachother so much they got a flat together in London on the Hanger Lane gyratory system which you made have heard on the travel news if you live nearby because it’s got a permanent traffic jam on it.
Dom says “Because we lived and worked together, it all got a bit much. We properly fought, Dick never wanted the heating or lights on in the flat – he would say, ‘You’ve got daylight, just put a jumper on’."
"We would fall out over bathroom spray – because I would want a brand that was 2p more expensive. I used to slam his head in the fridge door and everything.”
They bought their first pair of decks with their CBBC salary and learned how to mix by listening to Judge Jules and Dance Anthems at all possible times.
Then the Dick And Dom In Da Bungalow sprouted where they rioted around on Saturday mornings with Melvin Odoom. The nutty kids' show made these two famous.
When Da Bungalow ended, they marked the occasion by giving eachother presents. Dom gave Dick a freebie dressing gown with ‘Da Bungalow’ logo on the back. In return, Dick had bought Dom an all-expenses weekend in Ibiza.
Their favourite moment together – apart from Dick being Dom’s best man – was when they went to Gatecrasher’s Millennium Eve party at the Don Valley stadium in Sheffield: “Fifty thousand people there all ‘avin it!”
