IN the almost six years since Jamie Codd joined The Big Interview roll of honour to to mark achieving a lifetime ambition, much has happened since on a personal and professional level, so much of it glorious, but some of it still achingly painful.

It is interesting that what brought us to the home he shared with Robyn, who is now his wife, and that has been supplemented in the meantime by the arrival of daughters Lottie (three) and Penny (two), as well as playful terrier Timmy (two), is what he credits with the phenomenal run of subsequent success.