By Michael Deacon
Published: 5:11PM BST 01 Apr 2010

When Andy Hamilton was a small boy, he ran away from home. For a bit, anyway. “I forget what I was cross about,” he says, “but I got as far as Stamford Bridge [where Chelsea FC play].” Fortunately for the anxious parents of the future comedy scriptwriter and panellist on The News Quiz, this was only 10 minutes away from the Hamilton household in Fulham. At a loss as to how to continue his new life as a parentless itinerant, the young Hamilton hung around watching the Chelsea…

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