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Tony Blackburn: I'm A Celebrity ... honestly!

Tony Blackburn
Tony Blackburn ... never gets the credit he deserves. Photograph: Graham Turner/ the Guardian

Radio 2 DJ Tony Blackburn may be a well-monied household name but it seems that when it came to getting a Tesco credit card the computer said no, writes the Daily Mail. The supermarket ran his application through credit checkers Experian which came back with no record of the existence of one T Blackburn. "It's crazy, as far as they are concerned I am a non-person," he moaned.

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