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28

Aug 2020

Harrogate
Harrogate

Harrogate sculptor helps Johnny Vegas with new TV show

Published: 28 Aug 2020, 15:14 BST

by Thomas Barrett

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Comedian Jonny Vegas was in Harrogate this week to meet expert sculptor Steve Blaylock who helped out with a new TV show.

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Comedian Johnny Vegas was in Harrogate this week to meet expert sculptor Steve Blaylock, who helped out with a new TV show.

Steve told the Stray Ferret he has been sworn to secrecy about when and where the show will air, but said it will involve Vegas creating sculptures from different materials.

Steve said that he enjoyed spending time with a kindred spirit at his studio on Skipton Road:

"He brought the materials and we spent the whole day just brainstorming and chatting and talking about each other's lives, which was a bit bizarre. When he walked in it was like a friend who went to art college had just come back to see me.
"We had so many similar personal experiences growing up. We were both bullied at school and we both had to become the class clown, but I didn't follow my clownship into stand-up like Johnny."





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Like Steve, Vegas has a degree in ceramics and he enjoyed fooling around with several of the sculptures at the studio, including a giant-sized garden spade.



Steve said:

"He's an extremely artistic person, so being with somebody who has a creative mind who can see things that normal folk can't was wonderful."


Since setting up Studio Blaylock 23 years ago, Steve has had many commissions from TV companies, including the BBC who asked him to sculpt a 6ft tall Blue Peter ship in 1999.