Scoot, Barry Scott

He had me fooled. The shouting man in the Cillit Bang advert, Barry Scott, is a fictional creation. An actor plays the made-up rep for a cleaning products company, hard-selling the squirty goop in a bottle that sounds like a caption off a premium-rate phoneline ad.

But Barry has been a busy boy. Not content with hollering at TV viewers like Jim Robinson off Neighbours, he's also been offering his condolences to the emotionally distressed on their weblogs. While finding time to plug his cleaning product (full story here). Not bad for a fictional character. Coming soon: how Sherlock Holmes offered me cocaine online.