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Ian Harbord 1986- rose to wide-spread fame in the nineties and early 2000 as the result of a sucessful British reality TV show, Rose To Fame, which followed the exploits of his family. Though each family member was featured equally in the show, it is a widely held belief that Ian vastly outshone his other family members, to become the ackowledged star of the show. The other members of his family include mother Rose, father Michael, and older brother Neil (Ian's aunt Margaret, also resident in the Harbord household, refused to take part in the show on moral grounds, and as a result spent much of the intervening years in her own specially-built wing of the house. As a joke, the Harbord family have not told her the show is now over.) The most noteable peripheral member of the show, whose popularity also rose among the public, was one Mark Edwards, a good friend of Ian's who was often seen visiting the family home and whom Rose largely holds responsible for getting Ian into many of the numerous amusing scrapes that made his name. (Though Mark reportedly still likes to point out that he had no hand in the hideous "sausage incident" which brought the show its highest ratings during June 1998.)

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'dazed and confused'

Early Life

Ian was born 3 weeks premature on April 12th 1986 at North Devon District Hospital on the outskirts of Barnstaple, a popular local town. After the birth, one of the doctors was rumoured to have remarked to a nearby nurse that he had never officiated at the birth of such a large premature baby (though this has never been confirmed). Another unusual fact concerning his birth was that for 3 weeks Ian was not seen to open his eyes (though doctors were highly suspicious that he was doing so only in private).