It’s stuff that just wouldn’t have ever have happened if these kids hadn’t had thought it up, but those are the kind of people we want to honour at the moment.

Aww,  I like it when people do something good…

Yes! Some people have to be doing good things for the world to function!

Now obviously you’re well known for playing Simon in The Inbetweeners, do you think that as kids see someone they love being involved with such a good cause, it will inspire them to get involved too?

Well I hope so, I hope that I come across as someone who is relatively normal and isn’t like a zealous enthusiast for self-sacrifice… I hope that because The Inbetweeners is about normal people, and I’m relatively normal… I’m just so impressed by all the things that these people have done, and I hope people can share in my admirations for that and then they will give up a small amount of their time for something they think is worthwhile.

So, to talk a little bit about your acting career, we LOVE The Inbetweeners here at FemaleFirst, myself and the other girls spent a whole afternoon doing the quiz on the Channel 4 website when series two came out…

Was the quiz really hard?

Yeah! It was so hard, but this girl Laura knew ALL the answers, she was really good… so what’s it like being a part of such a great show?

It is really fun to be honest, they’re lovely people doing it, the cast is great, the writers are lovely and I look forward to doing it! It’s just like going to school and seeing all your mates. It’s great! I’m very privileged to be involved in it.

 When we’re working on it it’s marvellous, then when we’re not I am just writing my own things…. I spend a lot of time writing and I know from experience that writing is such a graft, so with The Inbetweeners, we get the fun bits - when it’s all done and dusted we just turn up and stand in front of the camera.

So how involved are you in the writing processes of the show?

Erm, we ‘offer’ our opinions sometimes, and they listen to us… and them we move on! Haha.

By the way Joe - whilst I remember - that thing, in the boat, with the fish…. Not cool! I felt sick, I had to cover my bunny’s eyes!

Haha! It’s a bit gory that bit isn’t it?

Geoffrey has this fish they he drags around the living room so he was really upset.

Well, it makes you think about where your food comes from doesn’t it! Haha, but beyond the fish, why not, we’ve all done that haven’t we?

No! no I haven’t Joe, the worst thing I’ve done is sprayed a daddy longlegs with Mr Muscle because I couldn’t catch it… anyway finally, do you have any other projects on the go at the moment?

Well we may be doing an Inbetweeners film which might be exciting, that should be fantastic. We’re doing series three next year and other than that, I don’t really know… what I really want now is to go back to writing something for myself - that was what I set out to do, so it’s still the dream for me and that’s what I’m hopefully in the process of doing!

FemaleFirst - Ruth Harrison.

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