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08:47 UK time, Tuesday, 5 April 2011

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The Daily Mirror has an interview that sheds some light on the strange effect that television fame can have on the public.

The name Wynne Evans probably doesn't mean that much to readers, but he has one of the most recognisable voices on television, thanks to an advertising campaign that people love or loathe in equal measure.

Evans is "the Go Compare man", who plays a plump Italian tenor called Gio Compario in a car insurance advertisement.

He that his overnight fame has meant he's pestered for requests from strangers to sing at the most inappropriate moments:

It was only a couple of months ago and I was at my grandmother's funeral, standing by her graveside saying my final goodbyes. And then this woman appeared completely out of the blue, saying over and over 'Hey Gio! Hey Gio!' until I looked at her and said: 'What? I've just buried my grandmother!" She had expected me to sing 'Go Compare' next to my grandmother's grave!

Another stranger shouted "Go compare!" in his face at a train station, while Eamonn Holmes apparently asked him to sing the ditty in the House of Lords.

Elsewhere in the papers, the Daily Mail has that compares older men with their glamorous daughters.

It's under the sensitively-worded headline: "WHERE DID I GET MY LOOKS, DAD"

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