Nick Hancock: "Sir Stanley Matthews medal cost me �20,000"

By Justin Harper 1002AM GMT nineteen March 2010

Nick Hancoks - "Sir Stanley Matthews" endowment cost me �20,000" Photo HEATHCLIFF O"MALLEY HOW DID YOUR CHILDHOOD INFLUENCE YOUR ATTITUDE TO MONEY?

Well, we didn"t have an outward toilet if that"s any help. But, seriously, I was wakeful that majority of what my silent and father had was for us, and how tough they worked to give us all we needed.

I was the youngest of 4 young kids and have 3 comparison sisters, that brought the benefits and drawbacks. At times it was a aria for my relatives but we were never tough up. I would contend I had a flattering middle-class background.

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Having pronounced that, I didn"t see that most of home as my relatives sent me afar to boarding school.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN REALLY HARD-UP?

When I left university, I did live on a friend"s building in easterly London for 4 years. I was about twenty-four or twenty-five and was you do the humerous entertainment circuit as piece of a stand in act. The reason I was there for so prolonged was a multiple of not carrying any income and undiluted laziness. And not meaningful most about the skill ladder didn"t assistance either.

ARE YOU A SAVER OR A SPENDER?

I"m distressing with money. I have a clever pathological need to compensate for dishes when I go out for dinner. I find it worried when alternative people at the list go to compensate so I regularly have certain I"m the initial to collect up the tab. Sometimes I"m unequivocally tempted to compensate for alternative tables in the grill as my need is so strong.

But detached from that I"d contend I was comparatively discreet with money. When young kids come along you do turn some-more wakeful of your spending.

DO YOU INVEST IN THE STOCK MARKET?

I don"t but my father does for me. He"s late right afar and has turn my unaccepted monetary adviser. I could fool around games with the batch marketplace but I certitude him to do it for me. Although may be I should be a bit endangered as he lives in the Cayman Islands.

WHAT"S THE MOST YOU HAVE BEEN PAID FOR A DAY"S WORK?

I"ve accomplished a couple of DVDs and videos about sporting gaffes that compensate the most appropriate for a day"s filming. Although I don"t do the after-dinner debate circuit, I have accomplished a bit of corporate work such as big endowment ceremonies. These can compensate anywhere in in between �20,000 to �25,000.

WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR MOST INDULGENT PURCHASE?

I am a large Stoke City fan and a partner of sporting memorabilia. So it accomplished undiluted clarity to buy Sir Stanley Matthews" FA Cup-winning endowment from 1953 as he was the club"s biggest ever player (although he won the FA Cup personification for Blackpool).

It cost me about �20,000 and was income well outlayed as it brings a lot of joy. I don"t essentially have it but have since it to Stoke City to put on arrangement at the stadium. I have additionally paid for one of Gordon Banks" England caps for �5,000, nonetheless I"ve never ragged it.

DO YOU DONATE TO CHARITY?

Yes, though generally by the time I donate, that is about 60 days a year. I am a enthusiast of the Lord"s Taverners gift and I"m right afar precision to stand Kilimanjaro in May with Tony Pulis (Stoke City"s manager) for a internal children"s gift the Donna Louise Children"s Hospice.

You can unite me at justgiving.com/TeamHancock

IS IT TRUE YOU TOOK A BREAK FROM SHOWBUSINESS TO WORK AS A MORTGAGE BROKER?

Yes it is. When you"re you do humerous entertainment all the time you get some-more and some-more faraway from the genuine universe so I longed for to get behind to the every day grind, get up in the sunrise and go to work and come behind and put on my slippers.

Some friends of cave were environment up a debt broking organisation in south Yorkshire, so I thought it would be fun to go and work for them. This was in in between 2005 and 2007 when the housing marketplace was seeking flattering rosy. Although I was operative some-more on the selling side I did come in to hit with business from time to time.

I recollect branch up to a assembly when I initial proposed and a little of the staff looked at me funnily as if to say, "Is that unequivocally Nick Hancock sitting there?" I unequivocally enjoyed my time operative there and once you know what Libor is (the London Inter-bank Offer Rate) there"s no going back.

DO YOU THINK THE BEEB WILL BRING BACK "THEY THINK IT"S ALL OVER"?

We had eighteen good array and it was unequivocally popular, generally with friends and my accountant. It was a unequivocally special time of my hold up and we had a lot of fun operative on it, that I goal comes by in the shows.

There are indeterminate talks to take it on the highway as a live show but I think it"s early days.

Thankfully, I have a lot of alternative work on the go. I"ve only accomplished recording Britain from the Sea for ITV and do the voice-overs for Morrisons ads.

DO YOU THINK PENSIONS ARE A GOOD IDEA?

I am some-more meddlesome in property, nonetheless I am unequivocally wakeful of what is function to pensions and investments. I do have endowments, that seemed similar to a good thought at the time, and right afar they"re in a bit of a pickle. But I"m relying on skill as my main investments.

I have a buy-to-let and a skill in Port Aventura, Spain. And I have invested in wine, too. I have a little Cheval Blanc 1985 stored afar that I have managed not to hold yet.

ARE YOU A GOOD TIPPER?

I would contend I was a inexhaustible tipper, routinely about 15pc to 25pc. But if I"ve had a ludicrously costly bottle of booze I will cause in that as there"s a outrageous markup on it and revoke the tip accordingly.