Thanks, appreciated
It's tough and I / we as a family rarely talk about it but with this Kyle stuff breaking it seemed apt. We were close growing up but drifted apart around 18. I kept in touch at family get togethers and such, and knew he was...a bit of a fantasist?
The segment he was on I can no longer find a clip of but here is my cousin and overview
https://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/...-robertson-takes-on-uks-vainest-man-pictures/
Again, I'm aware he did not come off well in the piece and he diverts from many in my family who are much more 'grounded' I suppose. Our shared Gran was mortified as a church going Mancunian prior to her death a few years ago.
If I saw it heck even I'd echo in the comments about his delusions, but what I will say is that in his head he'd been frequently fed hype and dreams about becoming something akin to the Love Island and Geordie Shore types. Paid a lot to do lifestyle segments and be a jack the lad type / heart of gold type. Some make it. Many do not.
However, as so often in life, what images you have in your head rarely translate well in reality. He had neither the broad charm, looks or 'x-factor' so to speak to sell what he thought he wanted, nor the mental strength to open yourself up to national criticism on such a platform
I knew this before he went on the show, heck most people could have sussed this out in talking to him for five minutes. Yet the producers waived him through, giving way to a shitshow of a hatchet job and the odd sight of 'An Agony Aunt' type figure (whose job you'd think would be to mentally help the guest) calling him pathetic. To what ends? Ratings. Clicks.
Maybe he was pathetic to the outside observer, based on the content of the piece alone. But broadly, I know from his dad after his death that he spent years replaying that TV interview and living with thousands of anonymous comments calling him a dickhead.
He couldn't take it, so ended it. I've always been conscious about adding to pile ons online prior to it, but especially more now - regardless of how things appear on the surface
