'I love putting on the uniform and driving the polis motor…”
However, his first"proper" acting role was as Scot Squad's enthusiastic beat cop PC Hugh McKirdy - although had it not been for a last-minute change to casting, it may never have happened.
“I mean, I went to Mallaig – you’d never just end up in Mallaig, would you? It takes you hours to get there. But when you do, the scenery is amazing, the beaches are beautiful.... We’re all a bit guilty of just taking it for granted.”Each week, Grado and fellow presenter JJ Chalmers feature three different holiday locations vying to be awarded the coveted title of Scotland’s Greatest Escape.
Along the way, Grado pops up to chat to the hosts and the reviewers, and try his hand at an assortment of activities, including butler training at a posh hotel, mushroom foraging in a forest, paddleboarding on a loch and meditating with sheep.“Aye, with sheep, that was something,” he says, laughing. “You’re right, none of this sounds like work. Actually, it was quite emotional at times, realising what we’ve got here in Scotland. It was that connection with the place you’re from.
Grado, who grew up in Ayrshire, still wrestles - “occasionally, though, I’m a bit older now so I can’t throw myself about the way I used to,” he says – but his busy schedule also includes his Go Radio breakfast show, stints in the Pavilion pantomimes, and filming for Two Doors Down, in which he plays Alan.
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