Richard ‘Dick’ McCourt
I’d wanted to be a children’s TV presenter ever since I was 12. I had a place at Bournemouth University, but instead got a job as a runner at Children’s BBC, and ended up on screen when they were looking for someone to join The Broom Cupboard. Dom was a magician from Exeter. He was on another CBBC show called The Friday Zone and would come into The Broom Cupboard. The boss saw that there was chemistry and we were employed to do links as Richard and Dominic. As we grew as mates offscreen, we became Dick and Dom.
